Sakhalin 2, Phase II Pipelines Project for Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC) was an extremely complex and challenging project on a number of levels: political, environmental, cultural, regulatory, topography, geophysical, weather, etc.
APLNG
The APLNG pipeline project, a joint Venture between Origin Energy, ConocoPhillips, and Sinopec, was a high profile business investment to transport gas from the coal seam gas (CSG) fields in the Surat and Bowen basins in south western and central Queensland, Australia to a new Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processing facility located at Laird Point on Curtis Island, off shore Gladstone. The FEED was conducted under an earlyworks contractor agreement, which enabled preliminary design and open book EPC pricing to be developed in parallel that would provide greater confidence on pricing for the Final Investment Decision (FID). The pipelines included a 360 km transmission pipeline of 42-inch diameter from a central hub to the LNG plant, and Condabri and Woleebee lateral pipelines, 56 km of 36-inch diameter and 70 km of 30-inch diameter respectively feeding in to the central hub. This is known as the Main Pipeline System and constructed under the Main Pipeline Contract (MPC) as an EPC by MCJV a Joint Venture agreement between McConnell Dowell Constructors and Consolidated Contracting Company (CCC) Australia. In addition, there is a High Pressure Gas Network (HPGN) or Infield Pipeline Works awarded to Nacap Australia Pty Ltd to construct approximately 170 km of various diameter pipelines, but predominately 450 mm diameter, and above ground facilities.
The project was challenging, not for the majority of construction as the terrain traversed is reasonably flat and agricultural apart from a small section in the calliope range, because it had a large number of stakeholders, was highly regulated, and had a high risk crossing of the Narrows close to the Great Barrier Reef
I was the Origin Energy Construction Manager – Pipelines for APLNG and totally responsible for pipeline delivery and coordinated pricing estimates, execution planning, constructability, procedure and specification development, government interface, stakeholder management, technical working groups, joint technical working committees and project controls .
Other Case Studies
The Baku, Tbilisi, Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a large diameter, long distance pipeline (1,768 Km) developed by BP as the operator to transport crude oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the landlocked Caspian Sea to a marine shipping terminal (Haydar Aliyev) on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
In February 2014, I was solicited by WorleyParsons to assist their tendering effort to secure the Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services to TANAP, and after a period of successful negotiations in which I played an active role the contract was awarded to them in May.
