Project Profile
Value: US$1.5 billion
Location: 17 kilometres south west of Onslow, Ashburton North, Australia
Capacity: 200 million standard cubic feet per day
Start-up: August 2013
The Macedon project involves four offshore production wells supplying a wet gas pipeline to an onshore gas treatment plant to be constructed at Ashburton North, 17 kilometres south west of Onslow. The domestic gas plant will have a design capacity of 200 million standard cubic feet per day. A sales gas pipeline will be connected to the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline for sale to the domestic gas market in Western Australia.
The Macedon Project includes the following components:
- Four subsea wells, manifold, 20” subsea wet gas pipeline and umbilical to shore
- Onshore Gas Plant (OGP) for dehydration, dew pointing, water and condensate treatment and sales gas compression
- Sales gas pipeline from OGP to Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline tie-in
- Onshore infrastructure including Construction Camp and Access Road to site
Operators:
BHP Billiton Petroleum
Macquarie Capital & Brookfield Asset Management
Contractors:
Main Contractors:
BGC (Australia) Pty Ltd. Doosan Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd.: High Pressure Vessels
JSW Australia Pty Ltd.: Bore well package
Nippon Steel Engineering Company Ltd.: Fabrication and Installation Service – Macedon DBNGP Filtering and Met/Fabrication of Process Modules
Ocean to Outback Pty Ltd.: Earthworks, Underground Services and Installation of Construction Camp
Streicher/Clough JV: Onshore Pipeline Construction, Onshore Pipeline Fittings and Pipeline HDD installation
Technip: EPC
VDM Group Ltd.: Permanent Buildings
Sub Contractor:
ABB Australia Pty Ltd.: Low Voltage Switchgear and Variable Speed Drives
Airpack Netherlands BV: Nitrogen Generation
Allthread Industries Pty Ltd.: Anchor bolts
Amalgamated Metal Corporation (M) Sdn Bhd.: Low Pressure Vessels
Auscor Pty Ltd.: Cathodic Protection Equipment and Services and Onshore Pipeline Cathodic System
Aussie Portables Pty Ltd.: Supply of Camp and Kitchen Facility
Cameron International Corporation: Actuated Valves, PSV Valves and Switching Valves
CompAir Australia: Instrument and Utility Air Compressor Package
Corrosion Control Engineering (Vic) Pty Ltd.: Onshore Pipeline Monolithic Insulating Joint
CPE Switchboards Pty Ltd.: Distribution Boards
Daekyung Machinery & Engineering Co Ltd.: Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers
David Moss Corporation: HDPE pipes, flanges and fittings
Dynapumps: Positive Displacement Pumps
Edgen Murray Pte Ltd.: Carbon Steel pipes fittings and flanges and Stainless and Duplex Steel pipes and fittings
Emerson Process Management Australia Pty Ltd.: Control Safety and Fire and Gas System and Control Valves
ESS Thalanyji JV: Supply of Camp Catering Services
Gasco Pty Ltd.: Waste Heat Recovery Units
Gastech Australia Pty Ltd.: Plant Fire and Gas Instrumentation
Gutor Electronic Asia Pacific: AC UPS System
Integrated Analytical Systems Pty Ltd.: Gas Chromatographs, Shelter & Analysers
KNM Process Systems Sdn Bhd.: Shop Fabricated Tanks
Korea Heat Exchangers Ind. Co. Ltd.: Air Cooled Heat Exchangers
Lowrie Constructions WA Pty Ltd.: Transportable Electrical Buildings
Oakwell Engineering Limited: Provision of Deluge Valve Skid inclusive Foam System
OneSteel Piping Systems: Anchor Flanges
Optical Data Services Pty Ltd.: Fibre Optic Cable
Pipetech Pty Ltd.: Sales Gas Pig Launcher / Receiver and Inlet Pig Launcher
PM Piping Australia Pty Ltd.
Process Group Pty Ltd.: Produced Water Treatment
Procon Instrumentation Pty Ltd.: Level Instruments
Renroc Group (Pumps & Engineering): Firewater Pump Package
Rhino Water Tanks and Liners Pty Ltd.: Field Erected Tanks
Ruhrpump SiHi Australia Pty Ltd.: Pumps
Sandvik Asia Ltd.: Black Start Electric (Fuel Gas) Heaters and Black Start Heater
SBN Industries Sdn Bhd.: Bolts, Nuts and Gaskets
Smith International Gulf Services (M) Sdn Bhd.:
Solar Turbines Incorporated: Power Generation System and Sales Gas and Wet Gas Turbine Driven Compressor
SPX Flow Technology: Chemical Injection Points and Filters
Taylor Forge Engineered Systems Inc.: Slug Catcher
Treloar Group Pty Limited: Truck Loading Arms
United U-LI (M) Sdn Bhd.: Cable Ladder, Tray & Accessories
Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube
Wesco Australia Pty Ltd.: Earthing Installation Materials
Zeeco: Flare System