URS provides environmental expertise to INPEX

PERTH, WA — July 29, 2010 — URS Australia has been engaged by INPEX Browse Ltd (INPEX) to provide a range of environmental impact assessments and advice to the Ichthys Gas Field development project. The Ichthys Field is located in the Browse Basin, in the north west of Australia. The Ichthys Project includes offshore production facilities, a subsea pipeline and an onshore gas-processing facility in Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory.

The Project will have the capacity to produce 8.4 million tonnes of LNG per annum and approximately 1.6 million tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) per annum, as well as 100,000 barrels of condensate per day at peak. The draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been recently released and presents a comprehensive description of the Ichthys Project, the natural and socio-economic environment in which it will be developed, the actual and potential impacts it will have and how these impacts will be managed.

Since February 2008, URS has worked closely with INPEX to identify and undertake a variety of marine environmental field studies and socio-economic assessments which characterised the environment in which the project would operate, provided advice on the potential impacts of the project’s activities and contributed to the preparation of the document, which sets a new standard for EISs in the Northern Territory.

URS WA Regional Manager Bert Prinsloo said “URS is honoured to have been given the opportunity to contribute our vast experience of environmental issues associated with the oil and gas industry and, in particular, our local knowledge of the Northern Territory environment and community. The Ichthys Project has the potential to be a world-class gas project and URS is proud to be assisting INPEX on such a project.”