The Gladstone LNG (GLNG) project led by Santos Ltd., Adelaide, has successfully delivered its 200th cargo of LNG from its Curtis Island plant near Gladstone on Queensland’s east coast.
The YK Sovereign LNG carrier docked at the Incheon reception terminal in South Korea with the cargo last week.
The two-train Curtis Island plant has a capacity to produce a total of 7.8 million tonnes/year of LNG. Much of its gas supply is coal seam gas (CSG) derived from fields in the Surat and Bowen basins of southeast Queensland.
The first train was brought on stream in September 2015 and the first cargo shipped a month later.
The second LNG train was brought on stream in May 2016.
The GLNG project is currently investing $900 million (Aus.) in upstream production systems this year, including the drilling of 300 CSG wells, which will help maintain gas feedstock for the plant.
Last month GLNG reported a final investment decision had been reached for the $400-million (Aus.), 137-well Arcadia CSG project in the Bowen basin of southeast Queensland (OGJ Online, May 31, 2018).
The initial phase of the Arcadia development will deliver a peak of more than 75 terajoules/day of gas to supply the GLNG plant as well as the domestic gas market in eastern Australia.
Arcadia is expected to be brought on stream late in 2019 and produce a total of 27 petajoules of CSG by 2022.
Santos is operator of GLNG with 30%. Total has 27.5%, Petronas 27.5%, and Kogas 15%.
