Cooper basin joint venture partners Santos Ltd. and Beach Energy Ltd., Adelaide, have extended an ethane gas supply contract to Qenos, Australia’s only manufacturer of polyethylene at its Botany Bay plant in Sydney (OGJ Online, Sept. 8, 2017).
The new sales agreement runs from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2025, and is expected to supply 15 petajoules of ethane/year.
The ethane required by Qenos is processed via a dedicated facility at the Moomba gas plant in South Australia and sent by pipeline across New South Wales to Botany Bay on the Australian east coast, Santos said.
The Qenos site covers 87 hectares in a major chemical and plastics manufacturing area adjacent to the Botany Bay shipping terminal. The polyethylene produced is used across a range of industries and applications, including consumer and industrial packaging, water conservation, waste management, and agriculture.
