Santos completes first gas processing hub for Gladstone LNG project

Nov. 4, 2014
The first of three Santos Ltd.-operated gas processing hubs for the Gladstone LNG (GLNG) project has been completed in the Surat-Bowen basin fields.

The first of three Santos Ltd.-operated gas processing hubs for the Gladstone LNG (GLNG) project has been completed in the Surat-Bowen basin fields.

The hub, at Fairview field north of Roma in central Queensland, contains 1,250 tonnes of steel, 440 km of cabling, and 40 km of pipework and is the largest of the three hubs being constructed for the coal seam gas-LNG project.

Commissioning of the other two hubs is progressing on schedule. When completed the three hubs will process a total of 555 terajoules/day of gas.

The gas will be sent down the 420-km gas transmission pipeline to the LNG plant nearing completion on Curtis Island near Gladstone.

Gas processing at each hub will include water removal for treatment and reuse.

Gas has already been introduced to the line via the primary compressor at Fairview and is being progressively filled section by section. The pipeline will transport as much as 40 million cu m/day of gas from the fields to the Curtis Island plant.

Start of gas production is expected into the LNG plant before yearend.

Meantime, the plant is 90% complete and first LNG is scheduled for delivery in 2015.

When fully operational, GLNG will have capacity to produce 7.8 million tonnes/year of LNG.

Santos is operator of GLNG, with Petronas, Kogas, and Total as joint venture partners in the project.