Overview

A QGC employee checks water quality in a pond at Windibri.

QGC, a BG Group business, is seeking approval from the Queensland and Australian governments for a substantial project to help unlock Queensland's reserves of coal seam gas for domestic and export markets.

The project, the Queensland Curtis LNG Project, will involve a multi-billion-dollar capital investment in:

• the expansion of QGC's existing coal seam gas production in the Surat Basin in southern Queensland
• a network of underground pipelines including a 340 km gas transmission pipeline linking the gas fields to Gladstone
• a liquefied natural gas plant at Curtis Island, near Gladstone.

QGC is seeking approval for annual liquefied natural gas production of 12 million tonnes per annum – enough energy to power every household in metropolitan Brisbane for 15 years.

The Project is estimated, in its first decade, to stimulate an increase in Queensland's gross state product of approximately $32 billion.

A draft environmental impact statement describing impacts and benefits of the Queensland Curtis LNG Project was formally lodged with government in late August 2009. The document received 40 submissions from government agencies, interest groups and individuals during a seven-week public exhibition.

A supplementary environmental impact statement was prepared to respond to public submissions received on the draft environmental impact statement and to inform stakeholders of material changes in project design, impacts and benefits.