Energy group Santos has submitted an environmental impact statement for its multi-billion dollar Gladstone LNG project in the state of Queensland, Australia.
Santos claims that Gladstone LNG (GLNG) is the first major integrated coal seam gas (CSG) to liquefied natural gas (LNG) project to submit its environmental impact statement (EIS).
According to the company, it anticipates GLNG to become the world’s first major project to produce LNG sourced from CSG. Gas will be piped from fields near Roma via a 435km pipeline to Curtis Island, where it will be cooled in a liquefaction plant and shipped to global markets.
The project involves extracting gas from the Surat and Bowen basins in south east Queensland. Petronas, the Malaysian national oil company and LNG producer, took a 40% interest in GLNG for $2.5 billion in May 2008.
Rick Wilkinson, president of GLNG, said: The statement represents almost 18 months of environmental investigations and reports across 24,000sqkm from Roma in the state’s south east, to Curtis Island, off Gladstone in Central Queensland. A team of more than 50 people have been involved in developing the EIS.
Santos is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company with interests and operations in Australian petroleum province and in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, and Kyrgyzstan. The company is also into domestic gas production, supplying sales gas to all mainland Australian states and territories, ethane to Sydney, and oil and liquids to domestic and international customers.
