[3][4] Production of LNG will be facilitated through an onshore liquefaction plant located at Bladin Point, near Darwin, which will be connected to the offshore Ichthys field by an 889 km (552 mi) subsea pipeline.
[8] However, this cost was subsequently increased to US$37 billion and it is the largest overseas project undertaken by a Japanese company.
[13] The Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading Vessel (FPSO), the Ichthys Venturer, is 336 m (1,102 ft) long and can hold 178×10^3 m3 (1.12×10^6 bbl) of crude oil.
Like the CPF it is designed to last 40 years, much longer than a typical FPSO, which is vital due to the need to ensure liquids are removed from the gas trunkline to the Bladin point LNG plant.
The tropical cyclones that the facilities are designed to withstand "swell with periods of 6-18 seconds from any direction and with wave heights of 0.5–9.0 m (1.6–29.5 ft) additionally, "current speeds may reach 1.0 m/s (3.3 ft/s) and occasionally exceed 2.0 m/s (6.6 ft/s) in the near-surface water layer".