Woodside Energy has let a brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) contract to the John Wood Group (Wood) for ongoing operations of the North West Shelf (NWS) project in Australia.
Wood has also been selected by Woodside to deliver the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the Goodwyn Alpha (GWA) Low-Low Pressure (LLP) project in production license WA-5-L, offshore Western Australia about 138 km northwest of Dampier.
GWA is a production platform which produces dry gas and condensate and has associated subsea infrastructure. Wood’s teams in Perth will provide engineering design to incorporate additional compression to enhance production from the asset, as well as required modifications to existing infrastructure.
Woodside is operator of the NWS project (33.33%) with joint venture partners BP Developments Australia Pty Ltd., Chevron Australia Pty Ltd., Japan Australia LNG (MIMI) Pty Ltd., and Shell Australia Pty Ltd. Each holds 16.67% interest.
Woodside operates GWA on behalf of North West Shelf project participants Woodside, BHP Billiton Petroleum (North West Shelf) Pty Ltd., BP Developments Australia Pty Ltd., Chevron Australia Pty Ltd., Japan Australia LNG (MIMI) Pty Ltd., and Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd.
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
