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Gas arrives at Gladstone LNG Train 1

GAS HAS been brought into liquefied LNG trains at the Santos GLNG facility on Curtis Island. Image courtesy Santos.
natural gas (LNG) production Train 1 at the
Gladstone LNG (GLNG) facility on Curtis The GLNG project boasts strong gas gas field development in the Surat and Bowen
Island, Santos announced in mid-August. production from all major processing facilities basins, a 420 kilometre gas transmission
in its gas fields, delivery of gas to its LNG pipeline and construction of an LNG plant on
Delivery of gas into Train 1 is a key facility and completing commissioning of all Curtis Island, near Gladstone.
milestone in the ongoing plant testing and LNG facility power generation and utilities.
commissioning process. The project will be able to to produce 7.8
In addition, the company unloaded propane million tonnes of LNG each year when fully
Santos said GLNG is on track for first LNG and ethylene refrigerants into storage and operational.
around the end of the third quarter this year. completed commissioning and test running all
six LNG Train 1 refrigeration compressors. GLNG is a partnership between Santos,
Santos GLNG workers will start up Train 1’s Malaysia’s Petronas, France’s Total and South
front end pre-treatment units through August The Santos GLNG project involved ongoing Korea’s KOGAS. l
and September before chilling down the cold
end refrigeration units to make LNG.

Santos managing director David Knox said
the company’s upstream facilities are fully
operational and they are in the final stages of
commissioning on Curtis Island.

“As we continue to hit our key milestones,
we know exactly what remains to be done and
we’re focused on safely delivering GLNG on
tome and on budget.”

“GLNG will be an important addition to our
growing LNG portfolio. Santos’ two other LNG
projects in Papua New Guinea and Darwin
continue to deliver excellent results and the
three projects combined will ultimately deliver
to Santos over three million tonnes of LNG
per annum – 10 times the quantity we sold in
2013,” he said.

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