Wood clinches Woodside contract extension

According to a Wood statement, the company will continue delivering brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) services across offshore assets at the North West Shelf (NWS) project.

Under the contract extension, Wood will deliver asset modifications designed to boost production, reliability, and longevity across Woodside’s NWS offshore facilities.

These facilities include the North Rankin complex, the Goodwyn A platform, and the Okha FPSO.

Wood noted that it secured its first contract with Woodside in 2013.

This new contract will be delivered by a team of 140 Wood employees based in Perth, Western Australia, supported by the company’s global engineering network.

The NWS project has supplied energy to Australian and international customers since the 1980’s.

Last year, Woodside completed the permanent retirement of the second LNG train at its NWS LNG terminal due to declining natural gas supplies.

This resulted in a reduction of the Karratha gas plant’s capacity from 16.9 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 14.3 mtpa.

Including the retired train, the plant has five LNG trains, launched between 1989 and 2008, and most of these volumes supply customers in Japan.

The facility also has domestic gas trains, condensate stabilization units, and LPG units.