July 2009

Esso Australia Marlin A
PSN Melbourne has awarded Mech-Tool Engineering the contract for the supply of stainless steel fire and blastwalls - weather cladding and doors to the central stairtower. Blast 0.3 bar. H60 Fire rating.

Esso Australia Marlin B
J. Ray McDermott Singapore has awarded Mech-Tool Engineering the contract for the supply of carbon steel fire and blastwalls to cover the Cellar and Mezzanine decks. Blast 1.0 bar. H0 Fire rating and Jetfire to 30 minutes.

The Kipper field, located in approximately 100 m of water, 45 km from Ninety Mile Beach, holds approximately 620 billion cubic feet of recoverable gas and 30 million barrels (MMbbl) of condensate/LPG.

The field is being developed via subsea facilities tied back to the existing West Tuna platform. These facilities include subsea wells, coolers and a subsea manifold. The produced gas and condensate will be transported via two new pipelines laid on the seabed to West Tuna. A new 18 inch pipeline from West Tuna to Marlin and another from Marlin to Snapper will also be installed to facilitate Kipper production and development of the Tuna gas cap. First gas from the field is expected in 2011.

The development concept is based on the construction of a new platform linked by a bridge to the existing Marlin A platform. The platform will process additional oil production and gas, which will then be piped back to existing facilities at Longford.

Together [the Kipper and Turrum] projects have enough energy to power an entire city of a million people for at least 35 years.