QGC Opens Construction Camp on Curtis Island, Australia

A 1700-room construction workers’ camp has officially been opened on Curtis Island where the world’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant to be fed by gas from coal seams is being built.

The camp accommodates workers who do not live in Gladstone, helping to ease housing pressures in the city.

More than 900 of the serviced rooms are already occupied and the camp will be full next year.

The modular camp was built by ATCO Australia, with landscaping by Gladstone business Benaraby Junction Nursery, and is named Brumby’s Run after wild horses seen in bushland near the construction site.

Bechtel Oil, Gas & Chemicals, Inc. is building the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) plant on behalf of natural gas company QGC Pty Limited.

More than 2,000 people currently work on the QCLNG site, where construction of two LNG storage tanks and the deep-water jetty is well underway.

The camp is a 20-minute ferry ride from the QCLNG dock on the mainland.

QGC announced in June 2012 that it had spent nearly A$8 billion since the start of 2010 developing QCLNG and its domestic gas business, with 74% of it spent in Australia and 59% in Queensland.

QGC has awarded more than A$1 billion of contracts in Gladstone alone.

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LNG World News Staff, November 27, 2012