The court has found a request for Inpex to produce a portion of the more than 19 million documents relevant to $US45 billion Ichthys LNG plant project to be too burdensome.
Oil and gas company Inpex has failed in its bid to have separate trials over issues arising from the construction of $US45 billion Ichthys LNG plant project.
Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has won two new contracts totalling $170 million, one of which is for further work on the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin.
Monadelphous Group has won a contract to complete cryogenic tanks at the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin – the same job that Laing O'Rourke walked away from in March.
CPB Contractors has failed in its application for an injunction against engineering group JKC Australia, which is claiming $39.2 million of liquidated damages related to work on the Ichthys LNG project.
The developer of the Ichthys LNG project has moved to assure the 800 workers affected by Laing O'Rourke's ejection from site that it would redeploy as many as it could to keep construction going.
Engineering contractor Laing O'Rourke has taken 800 of its workers off the $US37 billion Ichthys LNG project in Darwin due to a pay dispute with its Japanese supplier.
A fuel supply system at Rio Tinto's Cape Lambert port and work on a loading jetty at Ichthys's Darwin LNG facilities are among $140 million of contracts recently won by Monadelphous.
The resource sector's safety record has been brought into doubt after a contractor was crushed while working at a liquefied natural gas plant and hospitalised, but the incident was not recorded as a lost-time injury.
