Further Gorgon contracts awarded

A clue to where the next round of Gorgon jobs will be.....

The Saipem Leighton Consortium has been selected to develop the $900 million Chevron Gorgon LNG Jetty and Marine Structures project, combining the resources of Saipem and Leighton Contractors.

The scope of work includes design, material supply, fabrication, construction and commissioning of Australia's longest LNG Jetty which includes supply, fabrication and construction of marine structures including a heavy lift facility, tug pens and navigation aids.

Project design is underway and construction is scheduled to commence in late 2010 on Barrow Island, 70 kilometres off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia. The project is expected to be completed in 2013. The design utilises 55 caissons that will be manufactured at the Australian Marine Complex in Henderson, before being transported to Barrow Island and lowered onto gravel beds placed at intervals on the sea floor to provide a support structure for the jetty.

About Leighton Contractors
Leighton Contractors is one of Australia’s major contracting and project development groups with over $9 billion work in hand, employing more than 9,000 people across Australia and New Zealand. The company services clients across a range of industries and sectors including oil and gas, resources, construction, telecommunications, energy, infrastructure and facility management.

About Saipem
Saipem, 43% owned by Eni, is organised in three Business Units: Offshore, Onshore and Drilling, with a strong bias towards oil and gas related activities in remote areas and deepwater. Saipem is a leading provider of engineering, procurement, project management and construction services with distinctive capabilities in the design and the execution of large scale offshore and onshore projects, and technological competences such as gas monetisation and heavy oil exploitation.

In addition, CB&I has been awarded a contract by Chevron for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) and condensate storage tanks on Barrow Island.

CB&I's scope of work includes the engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction of two 180,000 cubic metre full containment LNG tanks, four condensate tanks, and the associated piping, electrical, instrumentation and civil works.

CB&I designs, engineers and constructs some of the world’s largest energy infrastructure projects, providing a full spectrum of EPC solutions and proven process technologies. Drawing upon more than a century of experience and the expertise of approximately 17,000 employees worldwide, CB&I safely and reliably executes more than 600 projects a year. In particular, CB&I has designed and constructed more than 200 LNG storage tanks around the world. More recently, they have built two 100,000 cubic metre full containment LNG storage tanks at an export terminal on Sakhalin Island in the far eastern reaches of the Russian Federation as part of Russia’s first LNG export facility.

Source: Project Connect