- Gladstone LNG
Gladstone LNG is a planned liquefied natural gas plant at Fishermans Landing on Curtis Island at
Gladstone, Queensland inAustralia . It will be the first LNG plant in the world to convertcoalbed methane to LNG.cite news
url = http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article153782.ece
title = Santos 'first to convert CBM to LNG'
publisher = Upstream Online
date = 2008-05-02
accessdate = 2008-05-31] The project was announced in July 2007.cite news
url= http://www.downstreamtoday.com/News/Articles/200805/Santos_Petronas_To_Form_Gladstone_JV_11086.aspx
title=Santos, Petronas To Form Gladstone JV
publisher=Downstream Today
date=2008-05-29
accessdate=2008-05-31]Technical features
The LNG plant is estimated to cost A$7.7 billion (US$7.4 billion). Its annual capacity will be between 3 million and 4 million tonnes of LNG.cite news
url = http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article155840.ece
title = Santos ‘close to sale of LNG stake’
publisher = Upstream Online
date = 2008-05-29
accessdate = 2008-05-31] The coalbed methane for the LNG production will be provided from Greater Fairview and Roma fields. The project also includes construction of the convert|450|km|mi|-1 gas pipeline from gas fields to Gladstone.The pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) will becarried out by Foster Wheeler and
Bechtel .cite news
url = http://www.downstreamtoday.com/News/Articles/200804/Santos_Awards_Gladstone_LNG_Contract_To__10156.aspx
title = Santos Awards Gladstone LNG Contract To Foster Wheeler
publisher = Downstream Today
date = 2008-04-16
accessdate = 2008-05-31] cite news
url = http://www.downstreamtoday.com/News/Articles/200804/Santos_Taps_Contractors_for_Gladstone_LN_9946.aspx
title = Santos Taps Contractors for Gladstone LNG Project
publisher = Downstream Today
date = 2008-04-08
accessdate = 2008-05-31] The project FEED would start in late 2008. The plant is expected to be commissioned in 2014.Partners
The developer of the project is
Santos Ltd. On 29 May 2008, Santos announced that Malaysian gas companyPetronas will have 40% in the project.References
External links
* [http://www.glng.com.au/ Project website]
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