Tideway, a unit of Belgium’s dredging company DEME, has won a contract for Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG project in Western Australia.
Tideway will level the seabed and install erosion protection measures as part of a joint venture. This work will be carried out in the first half of 2014, according to a press release.
The Wheatstone project will include an onshore facility located at Ashburton North Strategic Industrial Area (ANSIA), 12 kilometres west of Onslow in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The foundation project includes two LNG trains with a combined capacity of 8.9 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) and a domestic gas plant.
The project is a joint venture between Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (64.14%), Apache (13%), Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC, 7%), Shell (6.4%), and Kyushu Electric Power Company (1.46%), together with PE Wheatstone Pty Ltd (part owned by TEPCO, 8%).
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, July 18, 2013; Image: Chevron