GE Oil & Gas has scooped nearly US$1.3 billion worth of new equipment and service contracts including Ichthys LNG project in Western Australia, being developed by INPEX Corporation and Total.
The company announced the award of the contract at the 2012 GE Oil & Gas Annual Meeting being held January 30-31 in Florence, Italy.
GE will provide rotating equipment, including gas turbines and compressors, for a new Ichthys LNG plant at Blaydin Point, near Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory, and associated floating production storage and offloading and a central processing facility (CPF) located in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia.
In addition, GE will supply subsea production systems for the offshore portion of the project as well as subsea connectors for an 889-km pipeline that will carry the gas produced from a CPF to the new LNG plant in Darwin.
The scope of GE’s supply includes four Frame 7EA Gas Turbines and eight MR/PR Compressors for the LNG plant; 10 PGT25+G4 gas turbines and 10 compressors for upstream facilities; and 22 subsea production trees, five off-subsea manifolds, an integrated subsea control system and a 42-inch trunk line connection system.
The equipment will be shipped by 2014 and INPEX expects to start producing LNG by the end of 2016.
Meanwhile, other new orders include subsea production equipment, control systems and services for Nexen Golden Eagle Area Development project in the UK North Sea;
associated gas utilisation technology for TNK-BP’s Verkhnechonsk oil and gas field in Eastern Siberia; and selected to provide key equipment for an FPSO for Petrobras to develop the Tupi oilfield.
GE has also has also launched a Micro LNG plant; signed a global frame agreement with Shell to supply compressors and associated services for Shell’s projects worldwide over the next six years; completion of gas turbines modular replacement project at the Qatargas LNG plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City; tested the first of three LNG compressor trains being supplied for the development of Gorgon off Australia; and introduces PVI Lite Modules as a new member of the PipeView Integrity Software Line.
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