Construction of the offshore gas pipeline for the PNG LNG Project has started, with the first lengths of pipe laid near the LNG plant in Papua New Guinea.
The 407 km long, 36 inch diameter pipeline stretches from Omati in the Gulf Province to the LNG plant. The pipeline will be laid from two offshore pipelaying vessels, the Semac 1 and the Castoro 10.
The first part of the pipelay was the ‘shore pull’ which involved pulling the pipe to shore to be connected to the pipe on land. The Semac 1 will continue to lay the pipe along the sea floor, with the process expected to be completed in 2012.
The PNG LNG Project involves a two-train, 6.6 MMt/a LNG processing facility, envisaging the integrated development of the Hides, Angore and Juha gas fields, as well as associated gas from the Kutubu, Agogo, Gobe and Moran oil fields.
Participating interests in the PNG LNG Project include Esso Highlands Ltd, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corporation, as operator (33.2 per cent), Oil Search Ltd (29.0 per cent), the National Petroleum Company of PNG (PNG Government, 16.6 per cent), Santos Ltd (13.5 per cent), JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (4.7 per cent), Mineral Resources Development Company (PNG landowners, 2.8 per cent) and Petromin PNG Holdings Ltd (0.2 per cent).
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Image caption: The Semac 1 vessel preparing to start pipelay of the offshore pipeline for the PNG LNG Project.
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