BG Group Supplies First Gas to QCLNG Project

BG Group on Monday said that it had successfully sent first deliveries of gas from Surat Basin coal seam gas fields to its Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) project on Curtis Island where the liquefaction terminal is located.

"Delivering this key milestone demonstrates the advanced stage of development at the world’s first coal seam gas to LNG project. We are now entering the final construction and commissioning phases and we remain firmly on track to deliver first commercial LNG in the second half of 2014, as scheduled and within the $20.4 billion budget,” BG Group Chief Executive Chris Finlayson said in a statement.

Arrival of first gas onto the island enables commissioning work to begin on the first of two LNG production trains being developed as part of the integrated QCLNG project. This commissioning work is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2014.

According to BG, the first two LNG trains will together produce around 8.5 million tonnes of LNG a year and investment in a third train could lift plant capacity to over 12 million tonnes.

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