Project overview
Click the map to see more detailThe 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
- 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 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 delivery of LNG in 2014.
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 draft and supplementary environmental impact statements.
Infrastructure Facility of Significance Application
QGC has lodged an application under the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971 (Qld) to have certain components of the Queensland Curtis LNG project approved under section 125(1)(f) as an Infrastructure Facility of Significance.
Section 125(1)(f) provides the Governor-in-Council may approve by Gazette notice that an infrastructure facility has significance, particularly economically or socially to Australia, Queensland or the region in which the facility is to be constructed.
An approval by the Governor-in-Council represents the first step in a process under which the Coordinator-General may, to the extent he is lawfully able to do so, compulsorily acquire land (or easements) and native title for the project should voluntary negotiations be unsuccessful.
