Pipes & Pipelines
SANTOS GLNG’s $750 million Roma East project has marked a significant milestone, with the natural gas compression facility officially handed over to the operations team. First gas from the Roma East field flowed in February this year and with commissioning now safely completed, the plant is fully operational. The Roma East project involves bringing 480 wells online, including drilling about 430 new wells, connecting existing appraisal wells, and drilling pre-development
SENEX Energy Ltd has completed the sale of its Roma North gas processing facility and pipeline to major energy infrastructure operator Jemena for $50 million. Following successful commissioning and performance testing, Jemena has taken ownership of the facility and will compress and transport Senex’s natural gas to market under a long-term gas tolling arrangement. Key terms of the transaction included: Cash consideration of $50 million, with proceeds to support continued
STRIKE Energy Limited has completed a share placement raising approximately $12 million. The placement followed the May 29 announcement of the grant of an option to CSBP Limited, a significant Western Australian industrial gas user, for up to 100PJ of gas from West Erregulla contingent on the success of the drilling at West Erregulla in the Perth Basin. CSBP is to pay Strike $5 million for the grant of the
AUSTRALIA’S largest gas infrastructure company APA Group has announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Comet Ridge Galilee Pty Ltd and Vintage Energy Limited that includes commencing an in-field work programme to select a pipeline route to connect Queensland’s Galilee Basin to gas markets. Under the MOU, APA, Comet Ridge and Vintage agreed a framework for working together towards entering into a Gas Transportation Agreement (GTA). APA
THE pivotal role played by the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) in the successful Tanami natural gas pipeline project – built on budget and commissioned ahead of schedule – is another key milestone for one of the nation’s leading providers and operators of key energy infrastructure. Speaking recently at the official opening of Newmont Goldcorp’s Tanami Power Project, 540km north- west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, AGIG’s ceo,
WOOD and KBR,Inc. have secured a multimillion dollar contract to deliver integrated front-end engineering design (FEED) for Shell Australia’s Crux project to build a not normally manned (NNM) platform and gas export pipeline located approximately 600km north of Broome, offshore Western Australia (WA). The Crux facilities will be an important source of backfill gas supply to the Shell-operated Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility. The remotely operated, minimum facilities
AUSTRALIAN Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) has successfully commissioned the Pluto Inlet Station – the new facility connecting the Pluto LNG Project to the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP). The successful commissioning allows additional gas supply to reach Western Australian consumers. Woodside – which operates the Pluto LNG plant near Karratha in WA – engaged AGIG’s development group to undertake a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study to convert
SANTOS has announced it has executed binding agreement extensions with Beach Energy and Senex Energy for gas processing and related gas liquids purchases at the Moomba gas facilities. The gas processing agreement extensions are expected to result in the production of up to 18 TJ of sales gas per day, or 20 PJ over the three year term. The gas to be produced under these agreements is equivalent to more
A VITAL link that will bring new gas to Australia’s east coast gas market has been completed and will begin commercial operations in less than a month. Australian Pipeline and Gas Association (APGA) CEO Steve Davies said pipeline owner and operator Jemena had provided local businesses with many opportunities during construction of the 622km Northern Gas Pipeline between Mount Isa and Tennant Creek. “Now towns, businesses and resource projects along
WOODSIDE Energy has entered into a long-term gas sale and purchase agreement (GSPA) with Alcoa of Australia Limited for the supply of up to 36.4 PJ of pipeline gas. Supply will commence in 2020 from Woodside’s portfolio of domestic gas facilities, including the North West Shelf, Pluto and Wheatstone. Woodside CEO Peter Coleman welcomed the finalisation of the GSPA and said it further demonstrated the company’s commitment to delivering domestic
