Project Profile
Value: US$1,500 million
Start-up Year: 2017
Reserves: 14,000 billion ft³
FLNG: 3.6 mtpa production capacity
Water Depth: Up to 750 m
Location: 425 km northwest off the coast of Broome WA-R-2, WA-TR-5, WA-28-R, WA-29-R, WA-30-R, WA-31-R & WA-32-R, offshore Western Australia
The Browse gas fields have the potential to be twice as significant as the North-West Shelf LNG project. There is up to 40 Tcf of gas and 500m bbl of condensate reserves. The Browse project consists of three gas fields about 425km northwest off the coast of Broome, Western Australia. The fields are called Torosa, Brecknock and Calliance and together contain an estimated 18 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of dry gas. The operating life of the facilities is expected to be greater than 40 years. The natural gas contained in the three gas fields is planned to be converted to LNG primarily for export to international markets. The project will see the construction of a central gas processing and compression platform plus a utilities and accommodation platform. The main platform will have a 24,000-tonne deck, and the utilities unit a 12,000-tonne topside. Both structures will be supported by separate steel jackets and be bridge-linked in about 100 metres of water.The Browse project is expected to have three FLNG facilities with 3.6 mtpa production capacity based on the same technology as Shell’s Prelude FLNG, currently under construction in South Korea.
Operators:
Woodside Petroleum: Operator
BP
BHP Billiton
Shell Australia
MIMI Browse Pty Ltd
Contractors:
Consortium for Pre-FEED for topsides and substructures
Granherne (KBR)
WorleyParsons
J P Kenny: Subsea production and pipeline systems feasibility study
Consortium for offshore design FEED:
J P Kenny Pty Ltd.
GVA Consultants (KBR Company)
Granherne (KBR)
WorleyParsons
IntecSea
Fugro: Study for the pipe route
Songa Offshore: Rig
Seadrill Ltd.: FEED for a specialised semi-submersible drilling unit
Atwood Oceanics: FEED for a specialised semi-submersible drilling unit
Parker Drilling: FEED for a specialised semi-submersible drilling unit
Maersk Drilling: FEED for a specialised semi-submersible drilling unit
Consortium for offshore central gas processing facility FEED:
Fluor Corporation
J Ray McDermott
Aker Solutions: FEED for tension-leg platforms
Modec Inc. (Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Co): FEED for tension-leg platforms
KCA Deutag: FEED - Modular Platform Drilling Rig
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)
Benthic: Contract to undertake an offshore geotechnical site investigation for the proposed Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) development Benthic’s PROD3 (Portable Remotely Operated Drill) will execute the projects. (November 2015)
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.
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)