Aqualis Offshore has signed a contract to provide position keeping services for the installation of the Ichthys LNG project FPSO offshore Western Australia, according to a news release.

Under the contract, Aqualis Offshore will manage the position keeping procedure and provide position keeping masters during the offshore operations. The contract value is undisclosed.

Aqualis Offshore said it will provide the services as a sub-supplier to POSH Terasea Offshore Pte Ltd., which will manage the towage of the FPSO from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s Okpo yard in South Korea to the Ichthys Field offshore Australia and the station keeping for the mooring process at the field. The company’s Singapore office will manage and execute the project.

The Ichthys FPSO, which will be 336 m long, will be permanently moored on a non-disconnectable turret for the life of the project, about 3.5 km from the field’s central processing facility, the release said.