Plan to pipe WA gas to Darwin

The two companies intend to pipe gas from the field’s production facilities to a new liquefied natural gas plant in Darwin from the middle of the next decade.
Inpex started front-end engineering and design work of the multi-billion dollar offshore infrastructure project last month, with a view to recovering 530m barrels of condensates and almost 13trn cu ft of gas.
The development is the first in deepwaters of the Browse Basin and is 200 km off the coast and 850 km from Darwin.
Total’s president for exploration and production Yves-Louis Darricarrere said engineering studies would be carried out in a bid to bring the Ichthys site on stream in 2015/16 with capacity for 300,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day.
The FPSO would be designed to produce around 100,000 bpd of condensates and 1.6m tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas per year.
The partners expect Ichthys to produce 8.4m tonnes of LNG per year once the new LNG plant is operating at full rates.
Total and Inpex will consider linking satellite fields to the Ichthys infrastructure including last year’s discovery on the Mimia structure.