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Woodside LNG Tanks Karratha ---------1988 ----- $150m

(Australian Construction Contractors Award 1989)

System Features:

• Four LNG cryogenic storage tanks
• 63.8m diameter, 32.8m high, each
• Total volume: tank and insulation = 105,000m3 per tank
• Operating temperature = minus 161 degrees celsius
• 9% nickel inner storage liner
• Perlite insulation system
• Carbon steel outer liner
• Reinforced concrete outer shell
• Blast encasement - 163,000 m3 earth fill, each
• 14,000 m2 rip rap embankment each
• Aluminum inner 'ceiling'
• Roof dome fire spray system
• Fire proofed product loadout pipe bridge
• Submerged loadout pump system and piping
• Instrumentation and controls
• Constructor: Leighton - TKK JV.