Joint venture wins Wheatstone contract

By Josh Lewis

 24 February 2012 01:33 GMT

A joint venture between Leighton subsidiary Thiess and EV LNG Australia has won a A$500 million (US$538.8 million) contract to build liquefied natural gas storage and condensate tanks for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone project in Western Australia.

The joint venture will be ­responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction of two LNG containment storage tanks with a capacity of 150,000 cubic metres each, and two condensate storage tanks with a capacity of 120,000 cubic metres each.

It is the third contract Thiess has landed on the A$29 billion project. It previously won a A$260 million contract through its joint venture with Belgium’s Besix to design and construct the breakwater and materials offloading facility for the LNG project.

It was also handed a A$60 million contract by Chevron in ­December last…

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