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Pluto LNG Project
Woodside
Laing O’Rourke
190km north-west of Karratha, WA

The Pluto LNG (liquified natural gas) project is set to become the fastest developed LNG project to the production of first gas in late 2010.

The $12 billion project will process gas from the Pluto and Xena gas fields, located in the Carnarvon Basin about 190km north-west of Karratha, WA. ThyssenKrupp Steelcom supplied Laing O’ Rourke with the required Macalloy 17MHS tie bars and accessories delivered to Dampier.

Macalloy 17MHS is a fine grain steel with an exceptional blend of mechanical properties, combined with rolled threads providing a material with superior fatigue performance.

Distributed in AU & NZ by ThyssenKrupp Steelcom, Macalloy marine tie-bar system 17MHS has a minimum yield stress= 460 N/mm2. For this project alone, ThyssenKrupp Steelcom has supplied tie rod systems with total lengths of 31000mm and 110000mm. The bars hadrolled thread sizes of M100/d=98mm, and M76/d=72mm.

Laing O'Rourke plc is one of the world’s most dynamic and innovative, and privately owned development, construction and specialist companies. We are happy to being able to contribute to what is geared up to be the fastest developed LNG project in history in an industry where is it not uncommon for development to
occur every 20 years or more after field discovery.

ThyssenKrupp Steelcom offers total piling solutions including hire and sell of steel sheet piles, impact and vibratory piling hammers ranging from excavator mounted to large crane suspended units, as well as, foundation equipment and trench shoring.

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