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Monadelphous Group Limited has announced it has been awarded new contracts and contract extensions for customers in the resources and energy markets with a combined value of approximately $150 million. The latest agreements take the value of new contracts and additional work secured since July to approximately $600 million. Details can be found at:  https://www.monadelphous.com.au/news/2015/11/monadelphous-contracts-update/

Monadelphous Group Limited has announced it has entered into an agreement with US-based Mascaro Construction for the establishment of a jointly-owned company, Monaro LLC (“Monaro”).

Monaro will be based in Pittsburgh, USA, and deliver multidisciplinary construction services in the Marcellus and Utica gas regions of North East USA, including the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. 

The Marcellus and Utica regions contain an abundance of shale gas, and have seen significant investment in recent years in the construction of infrastructure to support gas extraction, processing and downstream production. 

More information available here.

EnerMech is the first company to be accredited by the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) to deliver Mechanical Joint Integrity (MJI) training courses in Australia.

The ECITB Mechanical Joint Integrity courses provides initial training, backed by documented work experience and concludes with further practical and theoretical assessments, providing Australian industry with globally recognised MJI competency standards.

EnerMech’s ECITB approved Trainer/Assessors bring extensive theoretical knowledge and practical experience drawn from many years of involvement in the oil, gas and energy sectors.

Congratulations EnerMech team. Read more about this update here.

The oil and gas industry welcomes a new report released by the Australian Government recognising the economic importance of Queensland’s coal seam gas industry.

The report titled ‘Review of the socioeconomic impacts of coal seam gas in Queensland’ says the “headline economic impacts of CSG development in Queensland to date are found to be net positive, and are attributable to increases in employment, income, output, consumption and government revenue”.

APPEA Chief Executive Dr Malcolm Roberts said the benefits of world-first CSG-LNG projects would never have materalised without political leadership and community efforts to work, liaise with and understand how natural gas is produced and used.

See the APPEA website for more information.

Gas hydrates are ice-like compounds formed as a result of combination of water and suitable sized molecules under low temperature and high pressure conditions.  The necessary conditions for their formation could exist in offshore and some onshore pipelines.  The formation of gas hydrates could cause in serious economical, operational and safety concerns.

The course will be delivered by Professor Bahman Tohidi, Centre for Gas Hydrate Research, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

See our events page for more details and to register your attendance: https://pcnt.com.au/events

INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) announced today the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project safely launched its central processing facility (CPF) on 19 September 2015 from the offshore floating dock at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, where it is being constructed.

INPEX President Director Australia Seiya Ito said the successful launch was one of the Project’s most significant achievements.

“To see this enormous facility in the water is a testament to those who have worked for years to make it a reality,” Mr. Ito said.

“This milestone is a clear demonstration that the Ichthys LNG Project is making good progress and that we are working in an excellent spirit of cooperation with our Korean contractors.”

Managing Director Ichthys LNG Project Louis Bon expressed his congratulations to the Project and contractor teams for the excellent result.

“The operation was completed within two days in the safest conditions,” Mr. Bon said. “The CPF is now berthed quayside at the shipyard where work is continuing to lift and install the living quarters and integrate and commission all equipment in preparation for the CPF’s sail away. All teams are working together in a very efficient manner to achieve our next targets.”

Once completed, the CPF, which the Project began constructing in January 2013, will be towed 5600 kilometers to the Ichthys Field in the Browse Basin, offshore Western Australia, where it will be permanently moored for the life of the Project—more than 40 years.

Source: http://www.inpex.com.au/news-media/news/

Gorgon LNG - Vertech have 60 personnel on the construction and commissioning phases of the Gorgon LNG project. Those that make up this team are part of one of the largest ongoing rope access projects in the world. 

Four days ago Vertech achieved a major milestone onsite. The Vertech barrow Island construction & commissioning team have now been on the project for 2 years. The amazing people that make up this team have remained recordable injury and incident free which is a massive achievement. Today makes 735 days incident and injury free for the team and growing each and every day.

Vertech are proud to be a Foundation Sponsor of Petroleum Club NT.

Congratulations to Toni Crew, HR & Business Development Manager from MMC Australia who is the winner of our SEAAOC business card draw. Toni has won 2 free tickets to our next event. Thank you to everyone who popped by the stand throughout the conference. Stay tuned for more announcements of our upcoming events.

Last night we held the inaugural PCNT networking event in the Grand Ballroom at SkyCity, Darwin. Louis Bon, MD Ichthys Project was our guest speaker and shared a detailed update on the project and the milestones achieved so far. We had a great attendance with a diverse range of members and guests. Thank you to everyone who came along and I hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as I did. Stay tuned for our next event updates coming soon.

SEAAOC officially opens in Darwin today. Now in its 21st year, SEAAOC is a joint initiative between Informa Australia & the Northern Territory Government. PCNT will be exhibiting so please come by our stand to introduce yourself and find out more about membership,sponsorship opportunities and upcoming events.