Woodside starts work on Pluto Train 2
Woodside has begun construction on a second LNG train at its Pluto LNG onshore facility on the Burrup Peninsula, near Karratha, the Western Australian government said on August 24.
“The groundbreaking of the Pluto Train 2 project is a key milestone for the Scarborough to Pluto Train 2 development, which will help meet the increasing global demand for LNG as a transitional energy source,” the government said.
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Once completed, the A$16bn LNG development will see gas from the offshore Scarborough field processed at Woodside Energy's Pluto LNG facility. Bechtel will execute the engineering, procurement, and construction of Pluto Train 2.
It is estimated the Scarborough to Pluto Train 2 development will create 3,200 new jobs over the four-year construction period and support around 600 jobs once operational, including about 230 jobs in the Karratha region, the government said.
The Pluto Train 2 project will deliver around 1,400 petajoules of gas to the Western Australian market, through a new domestic gas production facility to be built at the Pluto site. It will have an LNG capacity of about 5mn mt/yr.