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Worley delivers offshore FEED packages for Indonesia's Abadi LNG project
The Masela Block work covers subsea infrastructure and gas-export and carbon-storage pipelines within a planned 9.5-million-tonne-per-year LNG development.
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Worley has reported delivery of front-end engineering design packages for offshore infrastructure at INPEX's Abadi LNG project in Indonesia. The 16 September 2026 announcement identifies two packages in the Masela Block, covering approximately 150 kilometres of subsea infrastructure, gas-export pipelines and carbon capture and storage pipelines. The reported milestone concerns the design work. It does not establish that those offshore systems have been installed or that a construction contract for their full delivery has been awarded to Worley.
Abadi is included in Indonesia's National Strategic Project programme. Worley describes the planned development as capable of producing approximately 9.5 million tonnes of LNG annually once developed, incorporating carbon capture and storage. That figure is the anticipated LNG capacity of the wider INPEX project, rather than the output of the offshore FEED packages or evidence of current production. The release links the development to Indonesia's energy-security and 2060 net-zero objectives.
The design work was led by Worley's Indonesian team. Specialists from its Subsea Centre of Excellence in Singapore contributed alongside teams in Perth and Malaysia. This identifies the delivery organisation for the engineering phase. It does not assign installation vessels, manufacturing locations or a start-up date to the offshore systems.
EPC Feed sees the package boundaries as important to understanding the engineering milestone. Gas export and carbon-storage pipelines serve different functions even when they belong to one development. Bringing their interfaces into the design basis provides a way to examine how offshore equipment connects with the wider facilities. The disclosed scope should therefore be read as linked infrastructure engineering, rather than a single undifferentiated pipeline or an operating carbon-storage service.
For procurement tracking, delivered FEED is a useful reference point because subsequent execution packages can be compared with the assumptions established at this stage. Later disclosures would need to show which designs proceed, how supply and installation are contracted and which approvals govern the next phase. Keeping the anticipated LNG capacity separate from the completed engineering work allows readers to recognise progress without treating project definition as proof that the complete development is already operating.
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