Aqualis Offshore wins position keeping contract for Ichthys FPSO

SINGAPORE -- Aqualis Offshore, a marine and offshore engineering consultancy, has signed a contract to provide position keeping services for the installation of the Ichthys LNG Project FPSO.

Under the contract, Aqualis Offshore will manage the position keeping procedure and provide position keeping masters during the offshore operations. The contract value was not disclosed.

Aqualis Offshore will provide the services as a sub-supplier to POSH Terasea Offshore Pte Ltd, who will manage the towage of the FPSO from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s Okpo yard in South Korea to Ichthys field, offshore Australia, and the station keeping for the mooring process at the field.

The Ichthys FPSO, which will be 336 m long, will be permanently moored on a non-disconnectable turret for the life of the project, about 3.5 km from the field’s central processing facility (CPF). INPEX is the operator of the Ichthys LNG Project.

Aqualis Offshore’s Singapore office will manage and execute the project.