Offshore staff
PERTH, Australia – Processing of gas from the Pluto fields’ Pyxis hub offshore Western Australia has started at the North West Shelf Project’s (NWS) Karratha Gas Plant (KGP), said operator Woodside Energy.
The accelerated production of Pluto gas follows the start-up of the 3.2-km (1.99-mi) Pluto-KGP Interconnector pipeline that connects Pluto LNG with KGP.
KGP should process around 2.5 MM metric tons (2.76 MM tons) of LNG in aggregate and around 20 petajoules of domestic gas from Pluto between 2022 and 2025.
Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill said: “The start-up of the Pluto-KGP Interconnector provides access to spare capacity at Karratha Gas Plant to process gas owned by other resource owners, both onshore and offshore Western Australia…The processing of gas from the offshore Pluto field [at KGP] enables Woodside to deliver additional LNG cargoes into the international gas market.”
Partners in the North West Shelf Project are Woodside Energy (operator); BHP Petroleum (North West Shelf); BP Developments Australia; Chevron Australia; Japan Australia LNG; and Shell Australia.
Woodside Burrup has a 90% interest in Pluto LNG and operates the Pluto LNG facilities. The Pluto-KGP Interconnector pipeline is operated by AGI Operations.
3/31/2022
