Empire is taking the opportunity to contribute to Western Australia’s domestic gas demand via its Red Gully development project and ongoing exploration in the onshore Perth Basin following successful back-to-back discoveries 18 km north of Gingin.
Discoveries at Gingin West-1 and Red Gully-1 in the permit EP 389 resulted in gas that flowed naturally at rates up to 12 MMcf/d and up to 832 bbl/d of condensate from the Jurassic-aged Upper Cattamarra Coal Measures. The Red Gully-1 well is the closest gas discovery to Perth in recent history.
Momentum Engineering designed the Red Gully Facility specifically for the condensate-rich gas featured in these two discovery wells, and to meet the specification for entry into the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP), for which Empire has established a 20-year agreement.
The initial facility design by Momentum Engineering will treat up to 10 MMcf/d of gas and up to 500 bbl/d of condensate, and there is provision for future expansion of the facility to process up to 20 MMcf/d of gas and 1,000 bbl/d of condensate by installing a second processing train. A 3.2 km, 102 mm diameter “˜yellow jacket’ steel pipeline has been hot-tapped into the DBNGP, with this pipeline having the capacity to transport up to 30 MMcf/d of sales gas with the possibility for future expansion.
Momentum Engineering’s facility design is also equipped to store and transport large volumes of condensate that will be trucked to BP’s Kwinana Refinery.
The Red Gully Facility will initially treat the condensate and gas from the Gingin West-1 and Red Gully-1 discovery wells and will potentially be utilised in the future to treat other conventional and unconventional oil and gas discoveries near the Red Gully Facility. This includes opportunities in the nearby Gingin Gas Field initially discovered by WAPET in the mid-1960s.
The infrastructure that is already in place within the region will make future discoveries more accessible, with the facility is less than two hours drive from Perth, three hours drive from the BP Refinery in Kwinana, and 3 km from the DBNGP.
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