Japan’s JFE Steel Corporation and Marubeni-Itochu Steel have secured an order to supply 150,000 tons of line pipes for Chevron’s Wheatstone Project, in Western Australia.
The JFE Steel’s DNV-grade-450 UOE line pipe, a high-strength steel pipe with a 44-inch outer diameter, will be used to build the planned 225km pipeline to transport natural gas to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Ashburton North.
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Chevron is the operator of the $29bn Wheatstone Project, which involves the construction of two LNG trains and a domestic gas plant 12km west of Onslow, on the Pilbara coast.
Gas will be transported through a pipeline, from an offshore processing platform, to the onshore facilities for processing.
The first two LNG trains will be supplied with gas from the Chevron-operated Wheatstone and Iago fields and will have a combined capacity of 8.9 million tons a year.
The first LNG shipments are scheduled for 2016.
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By GlobalDataChevron has a 73% interest in the project, while Apache Corporation holds a 13% interest, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company has a 7% interest and Shell holds a 7% stake.
