Inpex Corporation launched the hull of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility for the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project from the dry dock at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME)
shipyard in Okpo, South Korea.
The launch on Sunday, 6 July, saw the 336-metre-long hull – equivalent to more than three soccer fields in length – floated out of the dry dock and positioned quayside where construction will continue.
Ichthys LNG Project offshore Director Claude Cahuzac said the milestone was an impressive achievement, with an enormous amount of work carried out since the FPSO’s keel laying ceremony.
“Pre-fabricated blocks weighing around 60,000 tonnes in total have been lifted into the dry dock and assembled to create the full-size FPSO hull we see on the water today,” Mr Cahuzac said.
