The new train will provide an additional 4.4 million tonnes per annum of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), increasing total annual output to over 16 million tonnes, enabling the NWSV to take advantage of expanding Asian LNG markets.
Woodside engaged WorleyParsons, in conjunction with joint venture partner Foster Wheeler, to provide front-end design and then engineering, procurement and construction management services for the project, which includes a fifth liquefaction train, an additional fractionation unit, acid gas recovery unit, boil-off gas compressor, gas turbine power generation units and a second loading berth.
This is the world’s first modular large‑scale LNG facility. This approach reduced the project’s dependency on local skilled labour, which is in extremely high demand, and enabled the project schedule to be compressed (by undertaking module fabrication in parallel with site preparation and civil works, as opposed to the sequential erection required by a conventional “stick‑built” construction approach).
