Engineering and construction company Clough Limited announced that Chevron Australia has entered into a contract valued at approximately AUD 300 million with the Clough Sea Trucks Joint Venture for the Domestic Gas scope of work on the Gorgon Project.
CSJV is a JV between Clough and Sea Trucks Australia established for the purpose of tendering and executing a variety of offshore works on the Gorgon Project. Participating interests vary from scope to scope. The work involves the transportation and installation of approximately 90kms of 20 inch pipeline, both offshore and onshore, from Barrow Island to the Dampier Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline.
Clough will carry out project management and installation engineering from their headquarters in Perth. Clough's derrick pipe lay barge, Java Constructor, will be utilized for pipeline installation together with Clough's shallow water laybarge, Clough Challenge. The onshore cross country portion of the pipeline will be self executed by Clough, supervised by resources from its Clough Seam Gas division. Engineering and procurement will commence immediately with site works expected to commence and be completed in 2012.
Mr John Smith CEO of Clough said that "As an Australian company headquartered in the West, Clough is proud to be chosen for the Gorgon DOMGAS project. I am pleased for our Marine Construction team who has put in an enormous effort over the past 15 months to secure this substantial contract which underpins backlog through the 11/12 financial year."
The Gorgon Project is one of the world's largest natural gas projects and the largest single resource natural gas project in Australia's history. It is operated by an Australian subsidiary of Chevron and is a joint venture of the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (approximately 47%), ExxonMobil (25%) and Shell (25%), Osaka Gas (1.25%), Tokyo Gas (1%) and Chubu Electric Power (0.417%).
The project will develop the Greater Gorgon Area gas fields, located about 130 kilometers off the north west coast of Western Australia. It includes the construction of a 15 million tonnes per annum Liquefied Natural Gas plant on Barrow Island and a domestic gas infrastructure capable of delivering 300 terajoules per day to supply gas to Western Australia.
