Project overview

Click the map to see more detail The project investigation area extends from the Surat Basin in southern Queensland to Gladstone and Curtis Island on the state's central coast.

Queensland Curtis LNG is a priority project of QGC - A BG Group business, to develop Queensland coal seam gas for Australian and international markets.

Key elements of the proposed project involve:

• An expansion of QGC's exploration and gas production operations in the Surat Basin, in southern Queensland,
• A 380km underground pipeline to Gladstone on the central Queensland coast, and
• A liquefaction plant on Curtis Island, near Gladstone, with initial production capacity of 7.4 million tonnes of LNG a year.

Queensland Curtis LNG 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 proposed site of the liquefaction plant will occupy less than 1% of Curtis Island and will be separated from any public areas by an environmental protection zone.

The project also involves a 400km network of lateral gas and water pipelines, development of the Port of Gladstone's main shipping channel, a dedicated liquefied natural gas shipping channel to Curtis Island and potentially construction of a bridge connecting Curtis Island to the mainland.

Good progress

The project is well underway and, pending approvals, construction on a liquefaction plant with two processing units, or "trains", is scheduled to begin in 2010, ahead of first production in late 2013.

In its first stage, Queensland Curtis LNG will represent one of Australia's largest capital infrastructure projects.

For a comprehensive description of the project, please view the Queensland Curtis LNG initial advice statement lodged in June 2008. (Click here to view the IAS 3.4mb)