Yokogawa wins $20 million LNG supply contract

Yokogawa has won a supply contract from Bechtel for a major West Australian gas project. The $20 million contract is for integrated control and safety systems for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project. The majority of the manufacturing work will be completed at Yokogawa facilities in Australia.

Yokogawa 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.

Yokogawa's WA headquarters.

The company has already had involvement in the upstream portion of the Wheatstone Project, supplying control systems for the control and safety systems for the subsea controllers and the topside offshore infrastructure.

According to Yokogawa Australia’s Managing Director John Hewitt, winning the Bechtel supply contract underscores the recognised competence and experience of Yokogawa Australia in major LNG projects.

“Yokogawa Australia has 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,” Hewitt said.

The company opened a new Perth office in 2010 and is doubling its office space. It is also developing a centre of excellence for LNG projects.

“Each project comes with its individual challenges and Yokogawa has responded by tailoring solutions including involvement in the front end engineering and design of these key installations and supply of engineering design, fully integrated control systems and precision instrumentation,” Hewitt said.

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