Yokogawa wins supply bid on major gas project

Yokogawa Australia has won a supply bid from Bechtel for integrated control and safety systems for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project west of Onslow, WA.

The contract, worth about $20 million, will see the majority of the manufacturing work completed at Yokogawa facilities in Australia.

The company will be supplying the Centum-VP integrated production control system, the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system and Plant Resource Manager (PRM), and the plant asset management system for the two LNG trains with a combined capacity of 8.9 million tonnes per annum.

This follows the company’s involvement in the upstream portion of the Wheatstone Project where it was awarded the supply of control systems for the control and safety systems for the subsea controllers and the topside offshore infrastructure.

Yokogawa Australia’s managing director, John Hewitt, said the latest Bechtel supply win underscored the recognised competence and experience of the company in major LNG projects.

“We have a dedicated team of highly skilled process and IT engineers and support staff (57 of whom are based in Perth) providing the enabling technology to a number of key projects in Western Australia, notably in the oil and gas and minerals processing industries.

“Yokogawa opened a new Perth office in 2010 after 21 years in WA and is currently doubling its office space to support these projects and provide training in our systems,” Hewitt said.

Bechtel is contracted to Chevron to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the downstream portion of the Wheatstone Project.