OIL & GAS
"GHD has a formidable breadth of technical experience and skills to support and service the needs of our clients, while being sensitive to the political, social, cultural and environmental dimensions at play in the oil & gas sector."
George Tsiros
Oil & Gas
Business Stream Leader
FEED study prepares way for new gas field
GHD has commenced a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study in collaboration with constructor Delco Australia for the development of a new gas field in Queensland.
Sunshine Gas commissioned the study for its Lacerta Coal Seam Gas field north of Roma. If the study outcomes and the regulatory approvals occur, GHD and Delco will proceed to full material procurement and construction of the gas plant.
Phase I of the Lacerta field development includes construction of a 30 PJ/a gas processing and dehydration plant, with 8 PJ/a compression capacity, and the establishment of a further 40 production wells.
Upon completion of Phase I and Phase II, which involves another major drilling campaign, the Lacerta gas field will be used to feed gas to the proposed Sunshine/Sojitz LNG project in Gladstone. GHD has established dedicated project support in Delco’s headquarters in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane.
VITAL INSPECTIONS FOR OFFSHORE GAS PLATFORM
A demanding inspection schedule has helped the North West Shelf Venture’s third offshore gas production facility, the new Angel Platform, reach completion off the north-west coast of Australia.
The remotely operated Angel gas and condensate processing platform stands in 80 metres of water about 50 km east of the Venture’s existing North Rankin A production facility. Hydrocarbons will be produced through one processing unit with a capacity of up to 800 million standard cubic feet of gas a day and up to 50,000 barrels of condensate a day.
The 7,000 tonne topside and 8,000 tonne jacket substructure is secured to the seabed by eight drilled and grouted, piled foundations weighing more than 4,500 tonnes.
GHD’s Oil & Gas, Electrical Equipment in Hazardous Area (EEHA) services, a specialist unit within the Oil & Gas practice, has completed the bulk of approximately 3,500 EEHA inspections required for this facility both at the construction yard in Johor Baru, Malaysia and offshore in Western Australia. Following successful inspection, remediation and commissioning of electrical, instrumentation and communication equipment, the platform is now in operation.
