NRW Holdings Scores Contract for Wheatstone LNG Project (Australia)

NRW Holdings Limited announced that it has entered into an agreement with BECHTEL (WESTERN AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD. for the construction of access roads for the Wheatstone Project in Western Australia.

The Contract value awarded to West Australian based NRW Holdings Limited is estimated at $99 million and will commence in March 2012.

The Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project is one of Australia’s largest resource projects. Located at Ashburton North, 12 kilometres west of Onslow in Western Australia, the Wheatstone Project is a joint venture between the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (73.6%), Apache (13%), Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (7%) and Shell (6.4%).

The initial phase of the project will consist of two liquefied natural gas trains with a combined capacity of 8.9 million tonne per annum and a domestic gas plant.

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Source: NRW Holdings, November 11, 2011; Image: Chevron