Bechtel said that it has successfully converted natural gas from coal seams into Liquefied Natural Gas ready for export, a world first.
Loading of a BG Group LNG vessel is underway at the Queensland Curtis LNG plant, one of three projects Bechtel is simultaneously building on Curtis Island on the east coast of Australia.
“Intricate planning began more than five years ago as our team began working towards developing a new LNG hub in Queensland to service the Asian energy market,” said Bechtel’s Global LNG General Manager Alasdair Cathcart .
He added that it’s taken 6,000 people working on the QCLNG project around the world to bring this first cargo of LNG to reality, boasting a zero incidents safety record.
Bechtel is currently building six production trains on Curtis Island, which will produce about 25 million tonnes of LNG annually when completed in early 2016, the equivalent to powering a city the size of Tokyo with 13 million people.
Bechtel also published a video of the first LNG loading from the QCLNG facility.
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LNG World News Staff; Image: Bechtel