Leighton's Gorgon jetty work continues

Delivery: Leighton said the jetty and marine structures project would be delivered by October 2013.

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Andrew Hobbs

 15 June 2012 08:48 GMT

The contract value has increased from A$900 million (US$903.5 billion) in 2009 to A$1.85 billion (US$1.86 billion), but Leighton Contractors says Chevron has agreed to a way forward with the Australia’s joint venture with Italy’s Saipem for work on its Gorgon liquefied natural gas project.

The companies signed a contract in 2009 for a jetty and marine structures project on Barrow Island, at the Gorgon project off the coast of Western Australia, with work to be completed by December 2012.

But in a market update sent out today, Leighton Holdings chief executive Hamish Tyrwhitt said the facility would now be delivered in October 2013, as the scope of the contract had “evolved” since the initial award.

The 2009 award covered the design and construction of a 2.1 kilometre liquefied natural gas jetty at Barrow Island, as well as…

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