LONDON (Dow Jones)--AMEC announced Thursday the award by INPEX of a contract for a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for the Ichthys Field, offshore Western Australia.

The contract includes FEED for the offshore gas and condensate production facilities and an export pipeline more than 850 kilometres to the Ichthys LNG Plant in Darwin, it said.

AMEC will now be responsible for providing project management, engineering and other resources necessary to produce the FEED for a large semi-submersible gas production facility, a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading facility (FPSO), Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (URF), and a gas export pipeline, it said.