INPEX Ichthys Pty Ltd, on behalf of the Ichthys Upstream Unincorporated Joint Venture Participants, is developing the Ichthys Field in the Browse Basin off the north-west coast of Western Australia to produce condensate offshore for export to markets in Japan and elsewhere, and export gas for further processing at the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Darwin. Liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs) and LNG will be produced onshore from the export gas on behalf of the Ichthys Downstream Incorporated Joint Venture. The Ichthys Field is located within the area covered by production licence WA-50-L, in the northern Browse Basin, approximately 210 km north-west of the coast of mainland Western Australia and 820 km south-west of Darwin. Water depths range from 235 to 275 m and the field consists of two reservoirs: an upper reservoir in the Brewster Member and a lower reservoir in the Plover Formation.
Gas from the Ichthys Field will undergo preliminary processing on an offshore central processing facility (CPF) to remove water and raw liquids, including the greater part of the condensate. This condensate will be pumped to the interlinked floating production, storage, and offtake facility (FPSO) with hydrocarbon processing and monoethylene glycol (MEG) regeneration capabilities. The FPSO will have a condensate storage capacity of more than 1 000 000 barrels (approx. 137 000 m3) and will transfer the condensate to tankers for export to overseas markets. The gas will be transferred from the CPF via an 889-km-long gas export pipeline (GEP) to an onshore processing plant at Bladin Point in Darwin (Figure 1-1).
Note: This information has been extracted from the environment plan submitted.