Worley said on Thursday it had been awarded the extension to a nonbinding frame agreement with Woodside.
The company did not provide the price tag of the contract.
Worley will provide brownfield engineering and procurement services to the Karratha gas plant and King Bay Supply Base, operated by Woodside and on behalf of the North West Shelf project JV, and the Pluto LNG plant, operated by Woodside Burrup for and on behalf of the Pluto JV.
Under the agreement, Worley will continue to provide project management, front-end engineering, detailed design, procurement, and commissioning services for onshore brownfields projects required by Woodside during this period.
Worley has provided engineering services to Woodside for over 20 years utilising a variety of contracting models.
The firm started services under the agreement and has continuously serviced these plants since 2018.
The services will continue to be executed by Worley’s team in Perth and Karratha with support from the Worley Global Integrated Delivery (GID) team in India.
Karratha plant and Pluto LNG
The Karratha gas plant has five LNG trains with a capacity of 16.9 million tonnes per year, while Pluto LNG currently has a single 4.9 mtpa processing train.
In addition, Woodside is building the second Pluto LNG train.
In November 2021, Woodside took a final investment decision on the Scarborough and Pluto LNG Train 2 developments.
The project also includes new domestic gas facilities and modifications to the first train.
Moreover, the Karratha gas plant, part of the North West Shelf project, shipped its 6000th cargo of LNG in 2022.
The facility also has domestic gas trains, condensate stabilization units, and LPG units.
Australia’s oldest LNG plant has been liquefying gas from fields located off the north-west coast of Australia since 1989.
However, these fields are slowly running out of gas and the project is now shifting its focus towards a different business model aimed at processing gas from third parties.
In August last year, Woodside said it was preparing to shut one of the five trains at its North West Shelf LNG terminal due to declining natural gas supplies.
