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Table 1: Australia’s operational LNG projects Project


Region


North West Shelf Darwin Pluto


Curtis Island


Western Australia Northern Territories Western Australia Queensland


Queensland Curtis Island LNG Queensland


Type of gas gas gas gas


CSG CSG


Million tonnes a year Online Phases 1/2 Lead operator 16.3 3.5 4.3 8.5 16


1989 2006 2012 2014


2014/15 Source: AEMO, BREE, Shell, BG Group, Chevron, The MJNEnergy LNG Supply Handbook 2015-2035


Table 2: Australian LNG projects due for completion Project Gorgon


Region


Gladstone, Curtis Island Ichthys


Wheatstone


Western Australia Queensland


Western Australia Western Australia


Australian Pacific, Curtis Island Queensland Prelude FLNG


Western Australia


Woodside Energy


ConocoPhillips Australia Woodside Energy Origin Energy BG Group


Type of gas gas


CSG gas gas


CSG gas


Million tonnes a year Online Phases 1/2 Lead operator 15.6 7.8 8.4 8.9 9


2015/16 2015/16 2016


3.6 Source: AEMO, BREE, Shell, BG Group, Chevron, The MJNEnergy LNG Supply Handbook 2015-2035


Table 3: Recent completed pipeline projects in Australia Project


Regions


2016/17 2015/16 2016


Chevron Santos Inpex


Chevron ConocoPhillips Royal Dutch Shell


Details Australia Pacific LNG’s pipeline Queensland 530 km pipeline to transport CSG from


gas fields in the Surat and Bowen Basins to Gladstone LNG export terminal


Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) Queensland 540 km pipeline linking BG Group’s


natural gas fields in southern Queensland to Gladstone LNG port


South West Queensland Pipeline Queensland Enhancing capacity to Gladstone LNG export terminal


Source: APA Group, Origin Energy, Shell, Australian Energy Regulator


l The Northern Territories (NT) networks l The Eastern Network, which links the regions covering Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Canberra along the eastern third of the country, where most of the country’s economic activity and population is located. Australia has more than 33,000km of high-pressure


steel pipelines, of which more than 25,000km are gas pipelines. A typical pipeline in Australia is between 300mm and 450mm in diameter and between 300km and 700km in length. Unlike the US, where gas trans- mission pipelines have been operational for more than 100 years, the oldest operational pipelines in Australia are little more than 40 years old. Nevertheless, replace- ment cost of this critical pipeline infrastructure has already been forecast to exceed A$40bn by the Austral- ian Pipeline Industry Association - over the past decade alone more than A$5 bn has been invested in new pipelines and expansion of existing pipelines. Two leading companies - Australian Gas Networks


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and AOA Group - dominate the country’s domestic transmission and local distribution pipeline networks, while Australia is home to some of the world’s leading pipeline engineering and consultancy companies, including Worley Parsons and CIMIC Group’s Leighton Holdings (majority owned by Germany’s Hochtief).


Investment drivers Australia’s energy policy aims to balance security of supply of domestic energy at affordable prices with increased exports to Asia. Both policy objectives are intertwined in terms of implementation, according to Olivier Royet, Head of Section Pipelines, DNV GL Oil & Gas, Australia. “The network would benefit from developing into a gas grid, allowing West Coast and Northern Territories gas to feed the newly developed East Coast LNG export terminals. This would help alleviate the stress on the local domestic gas market in Queensland and connect the plentiful gas resources in other states in Australia,” he says. Essentially export


www.pipeline-coating.com 2014-2015 Export APA Group 2010-2014 Export APA Group


On-stream Purpose of project Lead investor 2014-2015


Export Origin Energy


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