Chevron Signs Wheatstone Gas Deal with Alinta Energy

Chevron Australia has signed an agreement to supply gas to Sydney headquartered utility Alinta Energy from its Wheatstone project in Western Australia.

Under the agreement, Chevron will supply Alinta Energy with 20 Petajoules per year of its equity domestic gas for seven years starting in 2020.

“This agreement is an important step in Chevron's rapidly expanding domestic gas business in Western Australia and the establishment of our leading domestic gas portfolio across the Wheatstone, Gorgon and North West Shelf Projects,” Chevron Australia managing director Roy Krzywosinski said Tuesday.

At full capacity, the Wheatstone project, which is operated by Chevron, can produce 200 terajoules per day (TJ/d) of domestic gas for the Western Australian market, he said.

Wheatstone is expected to deliver domestic gas to the Western Australian market in 2018.

The Wheatstone project will consist of two LNG trains with a combined capacity of 8.9 MTPA and a 200 TJ/d domestic gas plant. Gas from the Wheatstone domestic gas plant is being marketed separately by the Wheatstone project joint venture participants and will be delivered from Onslow via pipeline to an inlet point on the Dampier Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline.

Chevron currently supplies 10 percent of the Western Australian gas market through its participation in the North West Shelf Project.