Bechtel's Three LNG Projects on Curtis Island Now Operational

Bechtel's three LNG projects on Curtis Island are now operational.

On Monday Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG) shipped its first cargo. Four of the six LNG trains to be constructed by Bechtel on Curtis Island in Queensland, Australia are now producing LNG with the remaining two trains expected to come online in 2016.

“The simultaneous work on the three giant plants constitutes the greatest concentration of green-fields construction for Bechtel anywhere in the world,” said Alasdair Cathcart, general manager of Bechtel’s LNG business line. “With all three plants now producing LNG, we are proud of the significant role Bechtel colleagues are playing in bringing Queensland’s cleaner energy resource to the world. With more than seven years of design, site construction, module delivery and local and global procurement of equipment and services behind us, we are now within reach of the final milestone – the 2016 completion of our extraordinary Curtis Island undertaking.”

In November, Bechtel officially handed over operational control of the Queensland Curtis LNG plant to QGC, and in October the Santos GLNG project produced its first cargo from Train 1. 

Bechtel is also the principal downstream contractor for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia.