Thiess Wins CSG Contract

Leighton Holdings subsidiary Thiess has won a $325 million contract to build a coal seam gas processing plant in southern Queensland.

Australian Associated Press reported Wednesday that the contract involves the construction of six field compression stations and one central processing plant in the Surat Basin, which is near Dalby, to service QGC's Queensland Curtis LNG Project.

Coal seam gas mining company QGC is a subsidiary of global gas giant the BG Group.

The facilities will process gas that will be transported through an underground pipeline network to Gladstone where the gas will be liquefied.

Work will begin in February 2012 and is expected to be completed in April next year, the company said in a statement.