Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management has given the pipeline approval to run from the Callide Infrastructure Corridor to the 3 MMt/a LNG project at Fisherman’s Landing, in the Port of Gladstone.
The PPL 161 application will now proceed to the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, as it is responsible for the issue of petroleum pipeline licences.
LNG Managing Director Maurice Brand said this was an important step in progressing the company’s gas supply plan for the project.
“The existing Queensland Gas Pipeline and at least six planned major gas pipelines, of which five have now obtained environmental approval, will converge into the Callide Infrastructure and therefore be capable of supplying gas to the company’s LNG project,” he said.
The pipeline is expected to initially supply 520 TJ/d but is designed for additional gas supply capacity, as the company intends to expand the project in the future.
Metgasco started feasibility studies in September 2010 on the possibility of gas supply, transportation, liquefaction and sale of LNG its coal seam gas and conventional gas reserves in the Clarence Moreton Basin to LNG’s Gladstone project.
Other LNG projects planned for the region include the Gladstone LNG Project led by Santos, the BG Group’s QCLNG Project, Shell and PetroChina’s proposed Arrow Energy LNG Project, and the APLNG Project from Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips.
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