Chevron Australia has begun supplying gas for domestic use in Western Australia from its Wheatstone project facilities near Onslow in the northwest of the state.
Besides producing LNG for export, the Wheatstone plant has the capacity to supply 200 terajoules/day of sales gas into the domestic grid for decades.
This equates to about 20% of Western Australia’s forecast domestic demand in 2019.
When added to Chevron’s Gorgon facilities on Barrow Island, the two facilities will be able to produce a total of 500 terajoules/day of gas to market.
The Wheatstone project is a joint venture operated by Chevron with 64.14%. Kuwait Foreign Exploration Co. 13.4%, Woodside Petroleum Ltd. 13%, PE Wheatstone Pty. Ltd. (part-owned by JERA) 8%, and Kyushu Electric Power Co. 1.46%.
