Murray & Roberts’ wholly owned subsidiary Clough has been awarded a hook-up services contract on the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility, by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.

The Ichthys FPSO was a 336-m-long, permanently moored and weather-vaning vessel designed to hold more than one-million barrels of condensate.

“This is the second hook-up contract awarded to Clough for the Ichthys LNG project, with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) awarding a similar contract earlier this year,” M&R CEO Henry Laas said in a statement released on Friday.

The scope of work for the latest contract included the preparation and execution of offshore hook-up and assistance to commissioning.

Work would begin with the mobilisation of engineering and technical teams to the DSME fabrication yard located in Geoje, Korea, before moving offshore in the Browse Basin, 200 km off the northern coastline of Western Australia.  

Project management would be executed from Clough's office in Perth, with the technical support of Clough’s Korean joint venture CloughCoens. 

The Ichthys LNG project was one of the largest offshore facilities in the industry and had an operational life span of at least 40 years.

Clough was also selected to work as part of an engineering panel to provide multidisciplinary engineering services for Woodside’s development planning, production and brownfield projects groups. 

The contract covered the full spectrum of engineering services including concept and feasibility studies, front-end engineering design, engineering assessment and review, detailed engineering and production support across all of Woodside’s onshore and offshore producing assets. 

“Over the past two years, Clough has worked hard to lower its cost base and increase productivity by investing in its engineering and project management systems and talent development. Clough’s brownfield engineering team will deliver fit-for-purpose engineering solutions that reduce capital and operational spending costs, while increasing safety, productivity and schedule certainty,” concluded Laas.