US offshore engineering and construction services player McDermott has officially started the construction of a booster compression module for the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG development in Australia.
According to McDermott’s social media update on 23 November, the construction started at the company’s yard in Batam in Indonesia with the first steel-cutting milestone of the 4,800 metric ton booster compression module that will be added to the Ichthys Explorer central processing platform off the northwest coast of Western Australia.
To remind, the company secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project in November 2021 after completing FEED services for the module.
At the beginning of the year, Heerema Marine Contractors’ Sleipnir vessel was selected by Inpex for the transport of the module from Indonesia to Australia and its installation.
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