Santos Updates on GLNG Project, Australia

August will be another busy month at Santos GLNG’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Curtis Island, Gladstone where the product loading facility is quickly taking shape on the waterfront.

Large international LNG tankers will berth at this facility in Gladstone Harbour from 2015 to load LNG to be shipped to market.

The facility’s 360-metre-long jetty approach trestle is complete and stretches from the shore to the loading platform.

From this platform loading arms will be built to transfer LNG onto the tankers.

Cranes that were used to construct the jetty are now driving piles for the first two of six nearby moorings.

Fourteen jetty modules from the Santos GLNG module yard in Batangas, Philippines were delivered on site in July by the first international general cargo ship to dock in the load-on load-off berth at the material offload facility.

These unique modules, built to encase pipes that will carry the LNG to tankers via the jetty, will be installed in the coming months.

“Construction has not slowed at our Curtis Island site following a colossal effort to raise a 850 tonne steel tank roof using pressurised air in June,” Vice President Downstream GLNG Rod Duke said.

“The last outer wall lift is underway for our second LNG tank and we expect to raise the roof on this storage facility later this year.”

The longest module destined for the plant, a propane condenser as long as 17 cars, will be installed in Train 1 after it arrives by ship this month.

“Construction, transport and delivery of major plant modules from our module yard in Batangas continues with a significant number of modules delivered or in transit.”