Project Profile
Value: US$30,000 million
Start-up Year: 2018
LNG: 12 million tonne/year
Location: James Price Point, Western Australia
The project will see the construction of an LNG liquefaction facility with 12 mtpa capacity, which will process gas from the Browse fields. The Browse Gas fields have the potential to be twice as significant as the North-West Shelf LNG project with up to 40 Tcf of gas and 500m bbl of condensate. There are five development options that were considered to utilise gas from Browse fields: an all-offshore option with separate production and processing facilities; a single floating production, storage and offloading unit with integrated LNG facilities; onshore processing in the Kimberley region; or onshore processing facilities either in Darwin or in the Burrup area at the Pluto or North West Shelf sites. Woodside and the Browse Joint Venture have selected the Western Australian Government’s Browse LNG Precinct near James Price Point, 60km north of Broome, as the location to process gas from these fields. The Browse gas development consists of the Brecknock, Brecknock South and Scott Reef stranded gas fields, which are located 250km off the coast. Current ownership is as follows: Woodside 31.3%; BP Plc 17%; MiMi 14.7% Royal Dutch Shell Plc 27% and BHP Billiton 10%.
Operators:
Woodside Petroleum: Operator
BP
BHP Billiton
Shell Australia
MIMI Browse Pty Ltd
Contractors:
Consortium to evaluate the technical considerations:
Foster Wheeler
WorleyParsons
Consortium for pre-FEED engineering study covering the onshore LNG processing facilities:
Fluor Corporation
Chiyoda Corp
Technip
Consortium for pre-FEED onshore plant design:
KBR
Bechtel Corporation
Consortium for FEED study for onshore facilities:
Chiyoda Corp
CB&I
Saipem
Consortium for FEED study onshore facilities:
KBR
Leighton Contractors Pty Limited
John Holland
Consortium for float-over installation and steel jackets design:
Flour
McDermott International
Technip Samsung Consortium: Two contracts by Shell for the Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project covering the realization and installation of three FLNG units to develop the Brecknock, Calliance and Torosa fields in the Browse Basin, 425 kilometres North of Broome. The first contract awarded to the Technip Samsung Consortium covers the FEED elements of the Browse FLNG project, taking into account the composition of the gas, local weather conditions and factors specific to each of the three fields. The second contract covers the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the three FLNG units of the Browse project. This contract is subject to the final investment decision from the client at the end of the FEED.
OneSubsea: Front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for Browse FLNG Development. A dedicated team of OneSubsea experts, operating out of OneSubsea\'s Perth city office, will now work collaboratively with Woodside to fully define and determine the optimal subsea production system design and equipment requirements for the Browse FLNG Development. The contract will involve up to 20 locally employed people working on the subsea scope over the next 12 to 18 months as Woodside prepares for a final investment decision (FID). The scope was tendered to internationally and locally based suppliers.
Benthic: Contract to undertake offshore geotechnical site investigations for the proposed Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) Development. Benthic’s PROD3 (Portable Remotely Operated Drill) will execute the projects consecutively from the Jaya Vigilant. Benthic will begin operations in the 4th quarter of 2015 at the proposed Browse FLNG Development site. PROD3 will complete in-situ testing and sampling to identify the soil conditions and geotechnical properties of the soil. PROD will penetrate to depths of up to 35 meters below the mudline in maximum water depths of 620 metres. (November 2015)
Wood Group Kenny:
- FEED for the Pipeline, subsea, FLNG develpoment and riser. August 2015, a contract to carry out front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the Woodside operated proposed Browse Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Development. Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will perform all design engineering for the insulated production flowline system required for the asset\\\'s offshore gas-condensate fields - Brecknock, Calliance and Torosa - located 300km from the Kimberly coast. The 12 month contract, which is valued at US$6 million and effective immediately, will be delivered from WGK\'s Perth office. The primary focus of the Browse subsea flowline FEED is to develop the engineering and design of the rigid flowline system to assist the Browse joint venture participants to take a final investment decision.
- Front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the proposed Browse FLNG development offshore Western Australia. Under the new contract with Woodside, Wood Group Kenny will progress the configuration design of the flexible risers and umbilicals for the asset’s offshore gas-condensate fields – Brecknock, Calliance and Torosa. (December 2015)
- Front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the Woodside-operated proposed Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) Development. Under a new 12 month contract awarded by Shell, Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will carry out flow assurance and process integration studies for the proposed development’s three offshore gas-condensate fields - Brecknock, Calliance and Torosa. (December 2015)
Sub-contractors:
SBM Offshore: Awarded by Technip the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for three, large-scale turret mooring systems associated with the proposed Browse Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Development in Australia. The three, large-scale turrets are expected to be designed similar to and slightly larger in size than the Shell Prelude FLNG turret that SBM Offshore was awarded in 2011 and whose last module was recently successfully delivered from the construction yard in Dubai. (October 2015)