The second stage of the Gorgon field project off the coast of Western Australia has started producing gas, operator Chevron Australia said.
Eleven wells have been added in the Gorgon and Jansz-Io fields and pipelines and offshore structures have been installed to service gas processing facilities on Barrow Island, Chevron’s Australian unit said on Tuesday body
Chevron Corp. calls the Gorgon venture “one of the largest LNG projects in the world and the largest resource project in Australia’s history,” as described on the global energy giant’s website. Expected to last more than 30 years, the three-train linked project includes a plant capable of producing up to 15.6 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas annually, as well as another gas facility intended to supply Western Australia with a daily capacity of 300 terajoules. The project, which exports to the Asia-Pacific, shipped its first LNG cargo in March 2016 and began supplying the local market in December that year.
“The development supports the longevity of the Gorgon Project and the continuation of its already significant ongoing benefits, such as high-skilled local employment, economic activity and state and federal government revenue for decades to come,” he said. said Chevron Australia CEO Mark Hatfield. announcement
“To add to the initial $40 billion [$27 billion] Since 2009, spending on Australian goods and services on the Gorgon project, the development has created more than 800 jobs in Western Australia through drilling and completion activities, subsea infrastructure installation and project management.”
Chevron Australia operates the Gorgon project with a 47.3 percent interest. Exxon Mobil Corp. has 25 percent, Shell PLC 25 percent, Osaka Gas Network Co. Ltd. 1.25 percent, Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd. one percent and JERA Co. Inc. 0.417 percent.
Western Australia remained the country’s top producer of natural gas in 2020-21, with 3,459 petajoules (PJ) of the 5,730 PJ of domestic production, according to the latest official data. This was despite the floating LNG facilities Gorgon and Prelude, both in the state, being shut down intermittently due to technical problems and routine maintenance, the Department of Energy’s “Australian Energy Update 2022” said Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water.
Western Australia consumed 1,246.5 PJ of energy in 2020-21, or 21.5 per cent of the national total of 5,789.6 PJ.
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