300 jobs for Onslow
Thiess and BESIX SA to develop port in Onslow for Wheatstone project
30th January 2012
The site of the new port being built for Chevron's LNG Wheatstone project near Onslow. Picture: Ben Crabtree
Future site of the material offloading wharf as part of Chevron's Wheatstone project. Photo: Ben Crabtree.
LEIGHTON Holdings subsidiary Thiess and a Belgian company have jointly won a $260 million contract to develop a port in WA's North-West.
Thiess and Belgian company BESIX SA will design and develop a breakwater and materials offloading facility as part of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project (LNG).
The contract is expected to create more than 300 jobs.
The majority of the new work will be based in Onslow - with at least 80 per cent of the contracted work taking place in Australia, Leighton said today.
``This partnership creates a new specialist marine capability to support the booming LNG sector and continues our involvement in the industry,'' said Thiess managing director Bruce Munro.
Work on the project is due to start this year.
Thiess is currently completing two contracts for Chevron on the Gorgon LNG Project at Barrow Island offshore from northern WA.
Nauti Buoy
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Mackerel Islands
Will be a fair bit more pressure on the fish stocks up that way.
dodgy
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Going to be difficult to
Going to be difficult to access without a boat ramp for a couple of months though...
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Nauti Buoy
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Boat ramp
When is the boat ramp going to be shut?
dodgy
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That's the big question...
That's the big question... Seems like august-sept but won't know dates until july.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Nauti Buoy
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Hmm!
Going to the Mackies in July, so will be very pissed of if the ramp is shut.
Why are the closing it? only just been redone couple of years back.
Mackerel islands will lose a lot of business in the process.
Busted Arse
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Mackeral Islands will no
Mackeral Islands will no doubt be converted into a camp for FIFO blowies. Owners will make more money then ever!!
dodgy
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Apparently a fair bit of
Apparently a fair bit of dredging to do with the works happening there. Best speaking to Drew at Mackerels direct. I do know some event have had to be cancelled due to uncertainty of ramp access around those dates.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
dumper
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I've heard a rumour that the
I've heard a rumour that the mackie islands accommodation is going to be used by chevron as workers accomodation and the tourism side of things will be shut for a couple of years. anybody else heard this?
Dale
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Yep, heard that too Dumper.
Yep, heard that too Dumper. Woulda been good to go down to Onslo though as I love the joint, but we missed out on the contract, so bummer.
Cheers
Dale
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Nauti Buoy
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Ramp
Spoke to both Ashburton Shire and Department of Transport today, both have said that the ramp will not be closed, both parties said if any work needed doing it would be similar to when they worked on the ramp before(closed one side while they fixed the other). I'm pretty sure the ratepayers would be extremely upset if the ramp closed.
bod
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true, they would be
I was reading about Chevron's meeting with the locals and of all the issues raised 'the potential impacts of the Project on recreational fishing was the most frequently raised concern.'
bigdavet86
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Im going!!!
I am heading up there around April - May, once we finish in Morawa. Should be a few years work for us. We are doing the Earthworks for the 4000 man camp, all the main access roads, a few causeways out to the borrow pits and i believe we may also be doing some of the bulk earthworks for the plant site itself. I cant wait!!! Got my spot booked at the caravan park, so it will be me, the missus, the hound and the bub (once he/she pops out the june), in the caravan for the next few years. Just have to find somewhere to put the boat and i will be in paradise!!
Cheers
Dave
Nauti Buoy
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Fun
You will have a great time up there mate, as long as the new bub behaves in the caravan. Are you taking a boat up with you?
bigdavet86
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YEP!!
sure will, got a 4.65m trailcraft profish. Just gotta make a return trip to perth to pick it up once we get the van up there.
Cheers
Dave
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Fun
You'll have some fun there mate, I lived there for two years and had a ball. Bottom bouncing, shallow trolling, pelagic trolling, jigging, popping, spinning, spearing, cray snorkeling etc.
Be back there eventually to scratch the fishing itch. Probably won't be the sleepy fishing hollow though, all things change.
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Busted Arse
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Had a good yarn amongst
Had a good yarn amongst other karratha locals at work the other day most of which were born and bred here or done at least 10 to 30 years living in the northwest. The general consensus is that the blowin fifo populations up north should be banned from fishing through their employers or at least pay for a special fishing license where by the funds generated could be reinvested back into the fisheries management for the area. Sounds pretty fair to me! Blowins are up here to work not have a holiday. :p
dodgy
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Yep. Sounds good to me
Yep. Sounds good to me
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
pale ale
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Yep, a couple years ago there
Yep, a couple years ago there was a contractor at work bragging that got 2 metery barras last night. I asked where, what bait and what did you do with them...... his reply
I'm flying out tomorrow so I gave them away to guys in the camp.
There goes our bloody brood stock ya knob
I have also seen groups of guys, new to town out pillaging the mud crabs. Do you need 15 bloody mud crabs when you get free food given to you in the camp????
Busted Arse
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Yeah the grey nomads
Yeah the grey nomads pretty much smash the muddies as well.
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Big dave
Got any room on ya team for 2 fit troubleshooters?10 years construction experience.
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