Foster Wheeler Ltd has announced that Woodside Burrup Pty Ltd has awarded the joint venture led by a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group for the onshore portion of Woodside’s Pluto LNG Project in Western Australia. Foster Wheeler’s joint venture partner for the project is WorleyParsons Services Pty Ltd. The scope of work to be undertaken by the Foster Wheeler-led joint venture includes a single liquefied natural gas production train with forecast production of 4.3 million tonnes of LNG per year, a fractionation unit, an acid gas recovery unit, gas purification units, tankage storage facilities, a boil-off gas compressor, loading berths, gas turbine power generation units and utilities. LNG production is scheduled to start at the end of 2010.
