Australia: Chart Scores Wheatstone Gig

Chart Industries of USA today said that Bechtel International has awarded Chart’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Chart Energy & Chemicals, the contract to provide Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchangers, Cold Boxes and Core-in-Kettle(R) units for the Wheatstone LNG project at Ashburton North in Western Australia.

Chart E&C’s contract award is in excess of $110 million.

The Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project is one of Australia’s largest resource projects. The Wheatstone Project is a joint venture between the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron, Apache, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company, Shell and Kyushu Electric Power Company. The initial phase of the project will consist of two LNG gas trains with a combined capacity of 8.9 million tonne per annum and a domestic gas plant. Chart E&C’s equipment is a key component in the refrigeration stages of the plant.

Chart E&C will perform engineering and project management from its offices in The Woodlands, Texas. The Wheatstone Cold Boxes and Core-in-Kettle units will be fabricated at its Gulf Coast facility in New Iberia, Louisiana. The project’s Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchangers will be designed and manufactured at Chart E&C’s heat exchanger production facility in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

“This is another positive development for Chart highlighting our LNG growth opportunities and we are happy to be working with Bechtel, Chevron and their partners on this world-scale LNG liquefaction facility,” said Mike Durkin, President of Chart E&C.

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LNG World News Staff, February 28, 2012; Image: Chevron