Worley has been awarded a Pre-FEED for Statkraft’s CO2 capture plant in Norway

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Worley has been awarded a pre-FEED for the basic design of the CO2 capture plant in Norway.

Together with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Worley is one of the three suppliers that has been selected to proceed to an early phase study of the project. This is in connection with the work on realizing Statkraft’s CO2 capture facility in Trondheim, Norway.

Statkraft is currently evaluating its ongoing long term project with the possibility of maturing and later realizing full scale CO2 capture at its waste incineration plant in Trondheim by 2030.

Worley’s scope is to design an optimized carbon capture unit for the waste to energy facility to capture 300,000 tonnes CO2 per annum using the Advanced KM CDR Process™ proprietary CO2 capture technology that MHI has developed together with The Kansai Electric Power Co. Inc.

The pre-FEED will focus on environmental and safety aspects, design, and development of a robust cost estimate. Studies are planned for completion in the autumn of this year. Statkraft will then decide if they proceed to the next, and final, phase of the project before a potential investment decision is due in 2027.

The project will be led by the teams in Denmark with support from our offices in Sweden, Norway, and our Global Integrated Delivery team in India.

“This project presents an opportunity to leverage our specialized expertise within the Nordic region. And we can utilize our global talent pool and wealth of experience, to benefit both our team and our customers,” says Jan Narvestad, Senior Vice President, Nordics.

“This project will play an important part in realizing the potential for carbon capture as a decarbonization tool for the waste to energy industry. And furthers our existing partnerships with MHI in the carbon capture space,” says Graeme Wilson, Nordics Regional Director.

Source: Worley


Worley has been awarded project management services for Aramco’s unconventional gas projects

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Worley has been awarded two project management service contracts for Aramco’s unconventional gas program in North and South Arabia and Jafurah.

Under the contracts, it will provide front-end engineering design (FEED), detailed design support, project management services and construction management services.

The term of both contracts is three years with an option for an extension for a further two years. It will carry out the work from their Al-Khobar and Houston offices.

“Being part of a project that not only looks towards sustainability but also contributes to boosting regional economy demonstrates Worley’s commitment to developing future growth in the location,” said Eissa Aqeeli, Senior Vice President and Location Director, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

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Worley has been awarded a contract to provide main FEED Phase II services for the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project

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When completed, the over 7,000 km long gas pipeline, being promoted by Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) of Morocco and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of Nigeria, will link Nigeria with Morocco, cross 11 west African countries and extend to Europe. It will be the longest offshore pipeline in the world and the second longest pipeline overall.

The NMGP pipeline is expected to traverse 13 countries, and will help to boost local industries and economies by delivering a reliable and sustainable energy source. It will also support industrial development and create employment opportunities.

Additionally, the pipeline will provide a new avenue for countries along the route to export their gas to their neighboring countries and Europe.

Delivering this project requires expertise from all over the world.

The overall FEED services will be managed by Intecsea BV, our offshore engineering consultancy business in The Hague, the Netherlands. This includes the development of the project implementation framework and supervision of the engineering survey.

The onshore FEED scope, the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and Land Acquisition Studies (LAS) will be delivered by our team in London, UK. The project will also be supported by our network of offices in Africa, and our global integrated delivery team in Hyderabad, India.

Advisian, our global consulting business, will explore the acceleration of electrification and the feasibility of energy self-sufficiency in the region. Our UK and Madrid offices will set out the potential to use renewable energy resources to power the pipeline and reduce the project’s carbon footprint.

“Being part of a project that not only looks towards sustainability, but also contributes to boosting regional economy and supports the development of local communities is an incredible opportunity,” said Ping Liu, Managing Director of Intecsea BV.

“The NMGP is a project that reflects our purpose of delivering a more sustainable world. We look forward to working with ONHYM and NNPC as we journey into a new chapter for West Africa.”

Source: Worley

Worley has been awarded a contract to provide EPCM services to Sedibelo Platinum Mines Limited (SPM)

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The project, in South Africa’s western limb of the Bushveld Complex, will take SPM’s Pilanesberg Platinum Mines from an open-pit operation to an underground mine. This project will extend the life of mine by 30 years from 2030 to 2060, with first ore expected from the underground operation by 2025.

“The natural progression for an open-pit mine in an orebody that extends at depth is to transition to underground mining,” explains Gladwin Mfolo, Business Sector Lead Resources, Qatar, Kuwait, and Sub Saharan Africa. “Drawing on our underground mining expertise in South Africa, Australia, and South America, we help mine owners around the world explore the feasibility of underground life-of-mine extensions and identify the most efficient and safe underground mining methods.”

Global experience and local support

In 2019, we completed the preliminary engineering design work for the feasibility study of this project. In the new contract, we will provide detailed engineering, design, and construction management services for the full scope.

This includes the development of a box cut, which allows access to a triple decline that will extract 160 ktpm of ore from the underground operation. We will also create a series of raised bored ventilation holes, and set up production sections, ore and ventilation passes, underground engineering setup, conveyors, workshops, and some surface infrastructure.

Our Johannesburg office will lead this project with support from our global integrated delivery team. The project is expected to take around 10 years to complete, with the current scope covering the first three years.

“A combination of our work on earlier phases, interrogating and challenging proposal inputs, and understanding our customer requirements led to this contract award. We look forward to supporting SPM as it transitions from an open pit to underground mine while fulfilling its environment, social, governance (ESG), and mining charter obligations,” said Mfolo.

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Worley has been awarded a services contract for the first two carbon capture units at Drax’s power station in North Yorkshire, UK.

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The two carbon capture units are expected to capture around eight million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, strengthening Drax’s purpose to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future. The carbon capture units will be integrated into two of the four existing biomass power generating units, which have a total capacity of 2,580 MW.

The carbon capture units will incorporate Drax’s negative-emissions technology, known as Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). BECCS combines renewable electricity generated from biomass and carbon capture storage to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere permanently. BECCS has been successfully piloted by Drax.

Under the contract, we’ll provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for the project. The services will be executed by our team in the UK.

Upon final investment decision and selection by the UK’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for the project to progress, we expect to negotiate the subsequent detailed engineering and build phases of the project with Drax.

This services contract follows the pre-FEED phase of the project, which we recently completed.

This strategic partnership with Drax demonstrates how we’re supporting our customers to adapt and decarbonize existing assets.

“As a global professional services company headquartered in Australia, we are pleased that Drax has engaged Worley in this important carbon capture project. Our partnership with Drax is one of the ways we’re helping our customers adapt existing assets and decarbonize industrial clusters, while also supporting our strategic focus on sustainability and delivering a more sustainable world,” said Chris Ashton, Chief Executive Officer of Worley.

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Worley has been awarded a contract to provide engineering and construction management services to Chevron Australia Pty Ltd (Chevron) for its Jansz-lo Compression (J-IC) project

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The project will use subsea compression technology to maintain long-term gas supply from the Jansz-lo field, located around 200 km offshore the north-western coast of Australia. The field will supply three existing LNG trains and domestic gas plant on Barrow Island.

The J-IC project will involve the construction and installation of a 27,000‑tonne normally unattended floating field control station, around 6,500 tonnes of subsea compression infrastructure, and a 135 km submarine power cable linked to Barrow Island.

We completed the pre-FEED and FEED for the project in 2020. We’ll now provide detailed engineering, design and construction management services for the power transmission and communication components scope.

We’ll lead the project from our Perth office, with support from our global integrated delivery team. The project is expected to take approximately five years to complete.

“Being part of a project that supports the energy transition across the Asia Pacific region aligns with our purpose of delivering a more sustainable world. We’re pleased to continue our global relationship with Chevron and look forward to supporting the next stage of its strategically important J-IC project,” said Gillian Cagney, Regional Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand.

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Worley has been awarded a services contract by Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV), a subsidiary of Occidental, for a facility in British Columbia

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It’s being designed to produce renewable fuels by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using Carbon Engineering’s Direct Air Capture and AIR TO FUELS™ technologies.

The facility is expected to produce up to 100 million liters of ultra-low carbon fuel annually. It’s being developed by OLCV and Squamish Huron Clean Energy Corporation and is expected to be the first commercial-scale project of its kind.

When built, the low-carbon fuels are expected to provide a new option for hard-to-decarbonize industries such as marine, air, rail and truck transportation. This will give transporters the option to reduce their fleets’ carbon dioxide footprint without modifying their vehicles.

We’re providing early front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) services for the facility and will act as project integrator for the technology. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2023 with the facility anticipated to be operational by 2026. Upon completion of the pre-FEED, the project is expected to move into the FEED and then the engineering, procurement, fabrication, and construction phase.

We’re also developing the FEED for a DAC facility, DAC-1, being developed by OLCV’s 1PointFive in the US Permian Basin. It’s expected to capture 1 million metric tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide for permanent storage when completed.

“We’re delighted to have been awarded this contract by OLCV and look forward to building on the relationship we started on the DAC-1 project earlier this year. The significance of the direct air capture technology being extended to renewables fully aligns with Worley’s purpose of delivering a more sustainable world,” said Chris Ashton, Chief Executive Officer of Worley.

“We’re proud to partner with Carbon Engineering and Huron on the AIR TO FUELS™ project and pleased that Worley will join the team to conduct the pre-FEED,” said Richard Jackson, President, Operations, US Onshore Resources and Carbon Management, of Occidental. “We selected Worley based on our experience working with them and believe their method of driving innovation within their company will advance the development of the AIR TO FUELS™ facility.”

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Worley has been awarded an engineering services contract by Shell Canada Products for a large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project

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Worley is providing preliminary front-end engineering and design services for Shell Canada’s proposed Polaris CCS project. The project would capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the refinery and chemicals plant located at Shell’s Scotford Complex near Edmonton, Canada.

The Polaris CCS facility is expected to start up around 2025, subject to a final investment decision by Shell expected in 2023.

“Delivering a more sustainable world for our customers is at the core of everything we do. Working with Shell Canada on its Polaris CCS project reinforces our commitment to helping our customers navigate the energy transition. And underpins our position as industry leaders in low-carbon fuels and decarbonization.” said Karen Sobel, Group President, Americas at Worley.

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Worley awarded an early engineering services contract by Shell to support the development of a new 200 megawatt electrolysis-based hydrogen plant

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We have been awarded an early engineering services contract by Shell to support the development of a new 200 megawatt electrolysis-based hydrogen plant.

Once complete, the project will be one of the largest commercial green hydrogen production facilities in the world. The project directly supports our purpose statement of delivering a more sustainable world.

Shell’s Holland Hydrogen I project will be located on the Tweede Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. A final investment decision will be made later this year.

The project is being led from our offices in The Hague, while also leveraging our global hydrogen subject matter experts and capabilities. As a first-of-its-kind project on this scale, we are providing early engineering and asset integration related services including the selection of the best technology needed to support the overall business case.

Operations are scheduled to start by 2023 and will produce ~50,000–60,000 kg of hydrogen per day. Renewable energy will preferably be provided by the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm.The green hydrogen produced will initially be used at the Shell refinery in Pernis to partially decarbonize the production of fossil fuels and support the industrial use of hydrogen in the heavy transportation industry.

With over 2,400 energy transition projects completed to date, we continue supporting our customers through their shift to sustainability. Our work includes more than 80 hydrogen projects such as H2U’s large-scale green hydrogen and green ammonia project and Queensland Nitrate’s commercial-scale production of green hydrogen to ammonia.

“This project supports our commitment to lead the development of hydrogen projects, while allowing us to support Shell’s strategic interests toward developing new fuels further,” said Peter van Alphen, Senior Vice President, the Netherlands and Germany, Worley. “It is an important for the Netherlands, Shell, Worley and indeed the world.”

“We are very pleased to be supported by Worley for the engineering on Shell’s Holland Hydrogen I plant. We look forward to a collaborative working relationship with the Worley team,” said Lijs Groenendaal, Business Opportunity Manager, Renewables and Energy Solutions, Shell.

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CNOOC awards a two-year EPC contract to Worley

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CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited (CNOOC Europe) has awarded Worley a two-year contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services to its three operated North Sea assets, being the Buzzard, Golden Eagle and Scott platforms.
The services, which span the full design lifecycle; from feasibility to commissioning, will be executed by Worley’s Aberdeen, UK office with support from Worley’s Global Integrated Delivery team.
“We are pleased that CNOOC Europe has selected Worley to continue supporting its North Sea assets.
With our strategic focus on sustainability and delivering a more sustainable world, we’re delighted this work includes evaluation of alternative energy sources, building further on Worley’s relationship with
CNOOC and our off-shore capabilities in the North Sea,” said Chris Ashton, Chief Executive Officer of Worley.
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Worley awarded EPCM contract for brownfield development at Newcrest’s Lihir

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Newcrest, a leading gold mining company, has awarded a contract to support Lihir; one of the world’s largest gold projects located on a geothermally active (but extinct) volcanic crater.

The contract is to deliver engineering, procurement and construction management services to Newcrest’s Lihir gold mine, located 700 kilometers north-east of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.  

Formalizing an alliance which commenced in April 2017, our involvement covers multiple brownfield projects including support to the mine site, process plant and associated infrastructure.

Our team will continue to be located on site and in our Brisbane, Australia office. 

“We are delighted to continue our relationship with Newcrest, working together to safely deliver a portfolio of projects to budget and schedule,” commented Gillian Cagney, Regional Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand.

“Creating further economic value and expanding opportunities for PNG nationals will remain a focus for both companies. More than 20 percent of our Lihir team are nationals which contribute to Newcrest’s already impressive in-country employment. 

“Our community improvement programs have included the distribution of personal solar lights to children living in isolated villages, reforming a local beach with recycled mine-site tires and water sanitation for seaside communities.

“Worley has a strong history working with Newcrest, having delivered projects in Australia, PNG, and Indonesia.”

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Azerbaijan International Operating Co. (AIOC) has awarded Worley a contract for engineering, procurement and construction services as part of a gas lift project.

Azerbaijan International Operating Co. (AIOC) has awarded Worley a contract for engineering, procurement and construction services as part of a gas lift project.

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Under the contract, Worley will provide engineering, procurement and construction services to support production operations on the Chirag platform in the Caspian Sea.

The project scope includes new gas lift flowlines and production manifolds. AIOC is operated by BP.  The services will be jointly executed by Worley’s Aberdeen and Baku locations, bringing together the offshore engineering expertise within the Aberdeen offices and the local operating knowledge and national expertise within the Baku office.

Worley delivers projects, provides expertise in engineering, procurement and construction and offers a wide range of consulting and advisory services. We cover the full life-cycle, from creating new assets to sustaining and enhancing operating assets, in the hydrocarbons, mining, mineral, metals, chemicals, power and infrastructure sectors. Our resources and energy are focused on responding to and meeting the needs of our customers over the long term and thereby creating value for our shareholders. 

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Worley awarded two contracts by Total for the Mozambique LNG Project

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Energy contractor giant Worley Ltd announced that it has won two LNG contracts from Total. 

Worley said that it had been awarded two master service agreements (MSAs) by Total for the Mozambique LNG Project to provide in-and-out of country services, including engineering, consulting and specialist engineering for delivering onshore and offshore (subsea) facilities to support the development of the new LNG facility. 

Worley’s local Mozambique operation will execute the services with support from Worley’s global businesses including Advisian. Worley has supported the LNG development since gas was first discovered there in 2010. 

Worley CEO Andrew Wood said: “We are pleased to continue providing services to the LNG development and to support one of Africa’s largest projects. Through the MSAs, we will help Total and its partners in the Mozambique LNG Project meet the world’s changing energy needs.

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Worley Partnerships With Nouryon To Explore in Chemical Market

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This is good news for chemical market, Worley entered into a framework agreement with Nouryon, a global company in the specialty and industrial chemicals market.

As part of the agreement, 50 employees of Nouryon Projects & Engineering will continue their careers and their EPCm activities under the banner of Worley.

Nouryon has guaranteed a significant amount of work for the duration of 5,5 years, including programs and maintenance on Nouryon’s European sites, as well as new discrete projects. The first new projects under the Master Service Agreement (MSA) are expected to start in December in the Netherlands and Sweden.

This new partnership is an addition to a series of long-term customer relationships in the chemical market in Europe, including a Global Engineering Alliance with BASF, a strategic partnership with SABIC and long-term relationship with Dow Chemicals and Borealis. It also brings additional knowledge and opportunities for green hydrogen production.
The Worley relationship with Nouryon strengthens position in the chemicals market, consistent with their strategy. The transfer of the Nouryon team enhances Worley’s deep knowledge and skills of the chemicals market.

As we focus on Worley, It delivers projects, provides expertise in engineering, procurement and construction and offers a wide range of consulting and advisory services. It covers the full life-cycle, from creating new assets to sustaining and enhancing operating assets, in the hydrocarbons, mining, mineral, metals, chemicals, power and infrastructure sectors. Our resources and energy are focused on responding to and meeting the needs of customers over the long term and thereby creating value for shareholders.

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