ENGINEERING AND instrumentation specialist Kentz Corporation has won a contract worth €285 million from Chevron Australia to design and build a construction village for 3,300 workers for its Gorgon project.
The project is a joint venture with its Australian partners Decmil and Thiess, and will involve constructing housing on Barrow Island off Western Australia for the Gorgon project, a development between Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell, to develop the Greater Gorgon gas fields located off the northwest coast of Western Australia.
The plan is expected to begin once government approvals are completed and following a final investment decision from the Gorgon Joint Venture participants in the second half of this year.
Kentz will design and construct the overall village engineering as well as supply all offshore procurement on the island, located up to 200 km off the coast.
Meanwhile, Thiess will head up the project management, local procurement and construction services for civil and buildings, while Decmil will cover mechanical works.
The Greater Gorgon gas fields are Australia’s largest gas resource, with about 40 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Kentz chief executive officer Hugh O’Donnell said all the materials for the project would be transported to the isolated island from Dampier aboard landing craft
The Irish-based group told shareholders earlier this month that it had lined up contracts worth $999 million and that the company was trading in line with expectations.
In April the group also announced its subsidiary, Kentz South Africa, had signed a framework agreement with South Africa’s biggest petrochemical group Sasol Technology.
Kentz said the agreement consisted of “predefined standard terms and conditions” that will govern engineering, procurement and construction contracts or construction management deals.
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