North West Shelf LNG Terminal
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North West Shelf LNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Western Australia, Australia.
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Location
Project Details
- Owner:
- Parent: BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, Japan Australia LNG, Shell, Woodside
- Location: Perth, Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia, Australia
- Coordinates: -20.59424, 116.7767 (exact)
- Capacity: 16.3 mtpa, 2.34 bcfd
- Additional Proposed Capacity:
- Status: Operating
- Type: Export
- Trains: 5
- Start Year: 1989
Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day
Background
North West Shelf LNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Western Australia, Australia.[1]
According to the company website in 1989 the first cargo of North West Shelf LNG left the facility's Karratha Gas Plant onboard headed to Japan’s Sodegaura Terminal. The North West Shelf LNG Project has delivered almost 4000 LNG cargoes since 1989.[2]
In 2017 Woodside, Australia's biggest oil and gas company, developed plans to connect their smaller Pluto LNG Terminal with their North West Shelf LNG Terminal on the Burrup Peninsula.[3]
North West Shelf LNG exports to Asia. Reuters reported in 2017 that the facility exports about 16.3 million tons a year.[4]
As of 2017, Australia is the second largest LNG exporter after Qatar. The country exports almost 44 million tons a year. [5]
In 2017 it was discovered that the petroleum resource rent tax had failed to collect billions of dollars in revenue north-west Australia.[6]
There have been plans to extend North West Shelf LNG to serve the domestic market as well as export. In 2017 Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce supported the construction of a new pipeline linking West Australia’s gas fields to the strained markets of the east coast. He proposed North West Shelf LNG to be shipped to Melbourne where it could feed through an import terminal.[7]
Woodside and ConocoPhillips, operators of Australia’s two oldest LNG plants, Darwin LNG Terminal and North West Shelf LNG are considering cheaper development options for their Browse and Barossa gas fields to compete against Qatar. Qatar added to the fears of Australia’s LNG owners in July 2017 when it announced a 23 million ton-a-year increase in gas exports.[8]
The Woodside chief executive has made clear his preferred feedstock option is for the North West Shelf LNG would be from the 30.6 per cent Woodside-owned Browse gas field.[8]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ North West Shelf LNG Terminal, A Barrel Full, accessed April 2017
- ↑ North West Shelf Gas, Australia LNG, accessed July 2017
- ↑ Matt Chambers,"Woodside plans for growth phase ahead," The Australian, May 24, 2017.
- ↑ "UPDATE 1-Australia's North West Shelf LNG facility hit by Karratha plant outage," Reuters, June 28, 2017.
- ↑ Diane Munro, [http://www.agsiw.org/qatar-moves-ensure-lng-dominance/ "Qatar Moves to Ensure LNG Dominance ,"] Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, April 17, 2017.
- ↑ Gareth Hutchens,"Australia must charge royalties on natural gas or lose billions, says expert," The Guardian, February 8, 2017.
- ↑ Sarah Martin,"Joyce backs gas pipeline from WA to east coast," The West Australian, September 22, 2017.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Peter Milne "Woodside’s Browse plant and ConocoPhillips to take on Qatar," The West Australian, July 13, 2017.
