Jemena picks pipe construction partners for Aussie LNG import terminal
Australian energy infrastructure company Jemena in partnership with engineering and construction firms Zinfra, Nacap, and Wasco has won a contract to connect the proposed LNG import terminal at Port Kembla to the Eastern Gas Pipeline (EGP), it said on December 14.
The partners will build a 12 km underground pipeline that will transport up to 130 petajoules/year of gas from Squadron Energy’s Port Kembla terminal to customers in New South Wales and Victoria via the EGP. Once commissioned the pipeline will be able to transport enough gas to meet more than 75% of NSW’s current gas needs, Jemena said.
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Early last year, Jemena and Australian Industrial Energy (AIE), a unit of Squadron, formalised the deal to build the pipeline. Jemena plans to make the 797 km EGP bi-directional so it can deliver over 390 terajoules/day of gas into the Victorian market, and up to 485 terajoules/day to New South Wales.
According to the contract, Zinfra will provide project management and engineering services for the project; Nacap will construct the pipeline; and Wasco will deliver the Kembla grange metering station, where this pipeline connects to the EGP.
Port Kembla is located in New South Wales around 90 km south of Australia's largest city Sydney in the southeast. It has a planned capacity of more than 100 petajoules of gas/year.
The LNG terminal's floating storage and regasification unit could receive LNG from existing liquefaction plants in Western Australia or Queensland, as well as cargoes from overseas.