Project Owner: Queensland Gas Company Ltd
Project Value: TBA
Project Status: Open
Location: QLD, Australia

Associated Projects:
   - Queensland Curtis LNG - Upstream (CSG Extraction and Pipeline)
   - Queensland Curtis LNG - Midstream (Liquefaction Facility)
   - Queensland Curtis LNG - Operations and Support Services

Queensland Curtis LNG is a priority project of QGC, a BG Group business, to develop Queensland coal seam gas for Australian and international markets.

QGC is committed to providing local industry with full, fair and reasonable opportunities to become involved in the project.

ICN is helping QGC identify local companies with the capacity to supply goods and services to the standards required. As part of this, local suppliers are encouraged to register their interest via ICN’s Gateway.

Companies which register through ICN Gateway and complete the ICN supplier resume, will be included in all future searches that ICN undertakes for procurement and contracting opportunities through the life of the project.

The project:

Key elements of the proposed Queensland Curtis LNG project involve

·         an expansion of QGC’s exploration and gas production operations in the Surat Basin, in southern Queensland

·         a 340km underground pipeline to Gladstone on the central Queensland coast

·          a liquefaction plant on Curtis Island, near Gladstone, with initial production capacity of 8.5 million tonnes of LNG a year.

QGC is seeking approval for the Queensland Curtis LNG Project to produce up to 12 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per annum - enough energy to power every household in metropolitan Brisbane for 15 years.

The proposed site of the liquefaction plant will occupy less than 1% of Curtis Island and will be separated from any public areas by an environmental protection zone. Queensland Curtis LNG also involves construction of approximately 1500 gas wells in the Surat Basin by 2014 and a network of gas gathering and transmission pipelines and water pipelines.

Good progress:

The project is well underway and, pending approvals, construction on a liquefaction plant with two processing units, or trains, is scheduled to begin in 2010, ahead of first delivery of liquefied natural gas in 2014.

In its first stage, Queensland Curtis LNG will represent one of Australia’s largest capital infrastructure projects.

For a comprehensive description of the project, please view the Queensland Curtis LNG Environmental Impact Statement lodged in August 2009 and the supplementary Environmental Impact Statement lodged in February 2010. Keep up to date with the project developments via www.qclng.com.au