Ichthys Gas Field

Related Pages

• Australia Oil and Gas Profile
• Australia Oil and Gas News

Australia Oil & Gas Fields

• Ichthys Gas Field

Inpex Oil & Gas Fields

• Ichthys Gas Field

Upstream News

• Eco Atlantic Receives Independent Leads Report Of 9.2 Billion Barrels Best Estimate On Guy Block, Walvis Basin, Offshore Namibia

• The Iraqi Oil Ministry Declares its Oil Exports for April 2012

• Elgin - Total confirms the success of the G4 well intervention

• Hundred billion cubic meters of gas produced at Yuzhno-Russkoye oil and gas field

• Gazprom Neft selects contractor to test wells at Badra

For More Upstream News

Summary Information

• Operator: Inpex
• Country: Australia
• Location: The Browse Basin, Western Australia
• Production start: Expected in 2016
• Partners: INPEX 76% and Total 24%
• Type: Gas & Condensate
• Estimated Reserves: 12.8 tcf of gas and 527 million barrels of high value condensate
• Production Volume:

Description

• Gas from the Ichthys Field, in the Browse Basin approximately 200 kilometers offshore Western Australia, will undergo preliminary processing offshore to remove water and extract condensate.
• The gas will then be exported to onshore processing facilities in Darwin via an 889-kilometer subsea pipeline.
• The Ichthys LNG Project is expected to produce 8.4 million tonnes of LNG and 1.6 million tonnes of LPG per annum, along with approximately 100,000 barrels of condensate per day at peak.

History

• 1998 - INPEX acquired the petroleum exploration permit WA-285-P, located in the Browse Basin
• 2000 to 2001 - Three exploratory wells resulted in the discovery of an extremely promising gas and condensate field
• 2006 - INPEX transferred a 24% participating interest in the Ichthys Project to Total
• 2012 - McDermott Awarded Ichthys Subsea Contract

Geology

Links

• Inpex Australia
• McDermott Awarded INPEX Ichthys Subsea Contract

---