Jumbo Shipping Completes First Phase Pluto LNG Project
Jumbo Shipping‘s heavy lift vessel Daniella has completed her eleventh and final voyage for the Pluto LNG project in Dampier, Australia. Between October 2008 and October 2009 she transported 256 pieces of equipment for this project, including pre-assembled structures and pipe racks weighing up to 240 t. HLV Fairlift has completed twelve voyages and will start the final phase of another five shipments.
The Pluto LNG project in Dampier is developed by EPC joint venture contractor Foster Wheeler WorleyParsons (FWW) for Australian energy major Woodside. The project comprises the installation of five subsea production wells connected to an onshore LNG processing train (plant) to be constructed on the Burrup Peninsula LNG Park near the port of Dampier. The Puto LNG project is challenging in many ways: logistically, from the engineering perspective and from an operational point of view. The project will be developed in a record-time of five years, with discovery of the gas field in 2005 and planned production of first gas in 2010.
In this tight schedule, the ontime delivery of the modules is of key-importance. Jumbo was contracted for the shipment of the pre-assembled modules for the onshore LNG train. These modules, with typical weights between 25 and 240 t, consist of pre-assembled pipe racks and other LNG processing equipment. Loading from Laem Chabang Port and Port Sattahip (Thailand), Port Klang (Malaysia) and the port of Melbourne (Australia), HLV’s Daniella and Fairlift have been working continuously for this extensive project.