Oil and gas company Santos has commenced producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the second train at its $18.5bn Gladstone LNG project on Curtis Island in Queensland, Australia.
Train two is the fifth of six production trains on Curtis Island.
The company’s latest announcement follows first LNG production from train one and GLNG’s first LNG export cargo in September 2015 and October 2015, respectively.
Santos managing director and CEO Kevin Gallagher said that the two-train project has already produced more than two million tonnes of LNG and shipped 32 cargos.
"GLNG train two start-up adds to Santos’ LNG portfolio, which also includes the Darwin LNG and PNG LNG projects."
The GLNG LNG project is operated by Santos with a 30% interest. Remaining partners are Petronas (27.5%), Total (27.5%) and Kogas (15%).
GLNG produces natural gas from Queensland’s coal seams and converts it into LNG.
The project involves gas field development in the Surat and Bowen Basins, a 420km gas transmission pipeline, as well as a two-train LNG plant on Curtis Island, near Gladstone.
Once fully operational, the plant will have the capacity to produce 7.8 million tonnes of LNG per year.
Bechtel delivered the engineering, procurement, modularisation, construction, commissioning and start up for the two-train GLNG project.
Each LNG train is expected to produce up to 3.9 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG.
Image: Bechtel produces liquefied natural gas from GLNG train two. Photo: courtesy of PRNewsFoto / Bechtel.
