BG Group’s Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) project is on schedule to bring its second train on stream during third-quarter 2015.
BG's announcement follows on the heels of the first shipment of LNG from Train 1 loaded onto the Methane Rita Andrew carrier on Dec. 28 (OGJ Online, Dec. 29, 2014).
The second cargo will be loaded onto the Methane Mickie Harper carrier during the first week of January 2015.
QCLNG is the world’s first LNG project to be fed by coal seam gas, and first shipments have come after 4 years of development work in the fields in the Surat-Bowen basins and construction at the LNG plant site on Curtis Island near Gladstone.
QCLNG expect plateau production from the two trains to occur in 2016 with an output of 8 million tonnes/year of LNG. The gas supply will come from more than 2,000 wells spread across 4,500 sq km and flowing through 540 km of gathering and trunk pipelines to the Curtis Island facility.
Water produced from the wells will be processed at two treatment plants providing supplies for use by local landholders, industry and communities in the interior Queensland region.
Overall, Curtis Island is host to three LNG projects with a total of six LNG trains to produce a total of 25 million tpy of LNG when all are completed in 2016.