The new $2.2 million, 1,250 sq m, fully-enclosed workshop significantly increases the company’s Australian fabrication capacity. The facility will provide a specialised workshop for welding and related fabrication of pipe spooling, skid bases and pressure vessels, which will allow the company’s existing 2,250 sq m main workshop to become a dedicated module assembly area.
The new workshop facility is being undertaken in response to the ongoing high level of demand for Process Group to provide specialised process packages for oil, gas and energy projects in Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.
Process Group Managing Director Craig Dugan said “Although the booming resource states of Western Australia and Queensland may be seeing signs of capacity constraints in the mining and energy sectors, Melbourne continues to provide a highly-skilled, efficient and stable workforce and good work environment.”
“Along with the instability caused by environmental, economic and political factors seen in many other regions, this further reinforces our confidence that Melbourne provides a very good long term location for further manufacturing capacity. The continued growth in demand for gas in Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea requires local industry able to provide the necessary sophisticated engineering and construction capability to support this demand,” Mr Dugan said.
Gas processing packages currently being fabricated at Process Group’s Melbourne facility include Chevron’s Gorgon LNG Development, Oil Search’s PNG LNG facilities, and BHP Billiton’s Minerva facilities.
The new facility is expected to be completed in April 2011, and this will provide increased capacity for the current projects and anticipated new contracts currently being negotiated.
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