The big tug Pacific Battler, a 60 m long, 2,100 t ocean-going tug, is towing the crucial piece of infrastructure.
LNG production is expected to commence at the Wheatstone Project in 2016 via a 250 MMcf/d onshore domestic gas plant at Ashburton North, WA.
The project is a joint venture between the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (64.14 per cent), Apache Energy (13 per cent), Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company KUFPEC (13.4 per cent) and Kyushu Electric Power Company (1.46 per cent), together with PE Wheatstone Pty Ltd (part owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company, 8 per cent).