Coatings World - August 2012

Bredero Shaw has received for the Ichthys LNG Project and is in addition to the contract for the gas export pipeline announced on February 14, 2012.

The Ichthys LNG Project is a Joint Venture between INPEX (Operator) and Total. Gas from the Ichthys Field, in the Browse Basin approximately 200 km offshore Western Australia, will be gathered using the risers and flowlines and will undergo preliminary processing at the offshore central processing facility to remove water and extract condensate. The gas will then be exported via an 889 km subsea pipeline to the onshore LNG facility to be located at Blay-din Point, Darwin, Northern Australia. The Ichthys LNG Project is expected to produce 8. 4 million tons of LNG and 1.6 million tons of LPG per annum, along with approximately 100,000 barrels of condensate per day at peak.

The contract involves coating approx-
imately 148 km of six-inch to 18-inch di-
ameter pipe that will be protected with
three-layer polypropylene anticorrosion
coating and Thermotite multi-layer
polypropylene insulation. Work will com-
mence during the second quarter of 2013.
The company will execute the work at
Bredero Shaw’s facilities in Kabil, Indone-
sia and Kuantan, Malaysia. The Kabil and
Kuantan facilities are technology-based,
full service coating plants that were built
specifically to process large, complex proj-
ects in the Asia Pacific region.

BASF opens new Paint Application Center in Mexico BASF’s Coatings group inaugurated its Paint Application Center and an extension of its Development Laboratory at the production site in Tultitlán, Mexico. It aims to strengthen the technical support for the automotive industry and to develop sustainable and customized coating materials and technologies. The new facility will support activities including technical service for basecoats, pigments and dispersions as well as the introduction of new colors.

Focused on sustained growth and innovation for the automotive market, the Coatings division in Mexico is of key importance to the North American Coatings division and its overall focus on serving the automotive market with world class products and services.

“The establishment of the facility is an
important step to further strengthen our
international technical network and the
capability to support the business of our
customers in North America,” said Juan
Carlos Ordoñez, senior vice president of
coatings for North America. “We also im-
prove our ability to properly serve our
customers in the growing automotive in-
dustry in Mexico.”
With an investment of $10 million, the
new facilities will offer best in class serv-
ices for the dynamic and growing auto-
motive industry. The investment includes a
wet and dry laboratory, spray booths with
two electrostatic and three manual func-
tions, and a dispersions laboratory.

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