INPEX has sent its 200th LNG cargo from its Ichthys LNG project 11 months after sending cargo 100 from its Darwin facility on Bladin Point. Inpex made the announcement via LinkedIn yesterday. 

It said the cargo is bound for Chiba, Japan.  

"The Energy Advance vessel loaded with 145,000 cubic metres of chilled LNG and is on its way,"  it said.  

Inpex has delivered 345 cargoes, with the remainder made up of LPG and condensate cargoes.  

Condensate sales in Western Australia for the 2019-20 year were worth  $5.7 billion, with much driven by the Japanese-led project. 

Though LNG departs Darwin, condensate is loaded from the Ichthys vessel moored offshore Western Australia in Commonwealth waters.  

Ichthys, the first LNG project the company has ever operated, is a cornerstone of its business and the largest single investment by a Japanese company in Australia, though was dogged by cost blowouts and a late start up date.  

Monday it submitted its plans to conduct an extensive drilling program as part of the next phase of the Ichthys development program to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA).  

It will drill between 12 and 15 new development wells within production license WA-50-L in the Browse Basin. The wells will be tied back to the existing processing facility, the Ichthys Explorer. 

The drilling program is expected to get underway in the first half of 2020 and take around five years to complete.

Source: Energy News Bulletin

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