PERTH (miningweekly.com) – The start of the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has been delayed by months, following delays in the installation of offshore production facilities.
The 8.9-million-tonne-a-year project had initially been slated to start production in the third quarter of 2017; however, project developer Inpex has now moved this timeline back to before the end of the financial year, being March 2018.
The company reported on Tuesday that the LNG project’s central processing facility had set sail from its construction site in South Korea, and was expected to reach offshore Western Australia within the next month-and-a-half, after which shipyard commissioning and preparation work would be completed.
The Ichthys floating production, storage and offloading facility is also scheduled to be towed to undergo hook-up.
The Ichthys project has recently been hit by a number of setbacks, including contract disputes between its contractors and claims from construction company Laing O’Rourke that it had not been paid for work on the remote engineering project, prompting the company to withdraw some 600 workers.
Edited by: Mariaan Webb
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online
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