ABB wins $15m Ichthys electrics order

Powering ahead: ABB lands another contract at Ichthys

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Bill Lehane

 21 March 2013 11:35 GMT

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has hired Switzerland’s ABB as its main electrical contractor for the semi-submersible central processing facility it is building for the Ichthys field off Australia.

The Zurich-headquartered power and automation specialist said it would provide “a complete and integrated electrical solution for the entire facility” under the $15 million order.

ABB previously won an $80 million contract to supply power technologies and medium voltage drive systems for the Browse basin project’s new onshore LNG processing plant near Darwin.

Situated in the Timor Sea off Western Australia, the Inpex-operated Ichthys oil and gas field’s central processing facility will be the world’s largest offshore production facility when completed in 2016, ABB added.

Samsung Heavy Industries and partner Mustang Engineering won the contract to build the facility…

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