By Upstream staff
The North West Shelf Venture in Australia is conducting a comprehensive cost review on the US$1.5 billion phase five liquefied natural gas expansion project.
Project operator Woodside said the review should be completed in the third quarter of 2006, and was being done because of “increasing cost pressures”.
To date, about 80% of the project’s approved budget has been committed. In the last three months, the piping pre-fabrication and new workshop contracts were awarded, and a letter of intent was issued for the mechanical construction contract.
In the third quarter it is planned to award the outstanding major contracts including electrical and instrumentation and scaffolding.
Current activities include engineering and procurement pre-fabrication, site preparation and civil foundation.
Woodside said the project is on schedule for first shipment in the fourth quarter of 2008.
The six equal partners in the NWSV are Woodside, Shell, BP, Chevron, BHP Billiton and Japan Australia LNG (MiMi).
CNOOC is also a member of the NWSV but does not have an interest in its infrastructure.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
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