The contract was awarded by the Kellogg Joint Venture to Downer-RML for all above-ground electrical and instrumentation work and is valued at about $30 million.
Downer-RML is a division of Downer EDI Limited, Australia's second biggest publicly listed engineering, infrastructure and resource services company.
The contract will result in 160 Downer-RML personnel being mobilised to the Burrup Peninsula site in January 2003 until March 2004.
"The award of this contract continues a long-standing relationship between the North West Shelf Venture and Downer-RML," said Woodside’s Onshore Projects general manager, Manfred Henze.
Mr Henze said that the company, as Ralph M Lee, had done major electrical and instrumentation work since the early 1980s in the development of the Ventures domestic gas and LNG facilities.
More than 1000 people are now working on the LNG Train 4 construction site and this is expected to increase to nearly 2000 by mid-2003.
The overall project is nearly 55% complete, with construction 25% complete. In September 2002, the project passed three million working hours without a lost-time injury.
Train 4 will have a production capacity of 4.2 million tonnes of LNG a year, with first LNG scheduled for mid-2004.
The six equal participants in the North West Shelf Venture are Woodside Energy – operator, BHP Billiton Petroleum, BP Developments Australia, ChevronTexaco Australia, Japan Australia LNG (MIMI) and Shell Development (Australia).
