Shell awards FEED contract for Prelude ‘satellite’ gas platform
Feb. 6, 2019
Shell Australia has contracted Wood and KBR to undertake integrated front-end engineering design for the Crux gas project offshore Western Australia.
Offshore staff
PERTH, Australia – Shell Australia has contracted Wood and KBR to undertake integrated front-end engineering design (FEED) for the Crux gas project, 600 km (373 mi) north of Broome, offshore Western Australia.
The main facilities will comprise a remotely operated, not normally manned platform and a gas export pipeline.
Shell will use these as a source of backfill gas supply to thePreludefloating liquefied natural gas vessel, with the platform drying the gas and exporting gas/condensate to Prelude via a new 160-km (99-mi) multi-phase pipeline.
Wood and KBR’s engineering and project management teams in Perth will manage the program over 18 months, supported by Wood’s Kuala Lumpur division, providing integrated FEED for the topsides, jacket, export pipeline and subsea pipeline end manifold.
