LNG Ltd receives pipeline approval

FISHERMAN’S Landing LNG proponents Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd received environmental approval from the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management to build a 21-km gas pipeline from the Callide Infrastructure Corridor to the company’s Fisherman’s Landing LNG plant in Gladstone.

The pipeline will initially be capable of supplying 520 TJ/day (180 PJ/year) to the 3 million tonne/year project, expandable according to the company’s needs and regulatory approvals.

The company is currently pursuing gas supply from several CSG companies, including Metgasco Ltd., in which LNG Ltd. holds a 5.04% stake.

In September LNG Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding for the joint study of gas supply from Metgasco's CSG resource.

The Fisherman's Landing LNG project was initially to be supplied with gas by Arrow Energy Ltd, but this supply became unavailable following Arrow’s acquisition by a joint venture between Shell and PetroChina.

LNG Ltd said the existing Queensland Gas Pipeline and at least six other planned major gas pipelines, of which five have obtained environmental approval, will converge in the Callide Infrastructure Corridor supplying the LNG project.

The six planned pipelines include the Blackwater Hub Gas Pipeline (Bow Energy), Central Queensland Gas Pipeline (Arrow Energy, AGL Energy), GLNG Pipeline (Santos, Petronas, Total, and Kogas), Queensland Curtis LNG Pipeline (BG Group, CNOOC), APLNG Pipeline (Origin, ConocoPhillips), and Surat-Gladstone LNG Pipeline (Shell, PetroChina).