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Shaw River Pipeline in the works

Thu, 18 March 2010 Santos has applied for two pipeline licences for its proposed Shaw River Pipeline, to be located in western Victoria.

BJ to provide pipeline precommissioning for Gorgon

Thu, 18 March 2010 BJ Services Australia has been awarded an $A88 million dollar contract by Chevron to provide pipeline precommissioning services associated with the construction of the Gorgon LNG Development, located off the coast of Western Australia

Comdain wins water award

Thu, 18 March 2010 Comdain Infrastructure, as part of the FutureFlow consortium, has been awarded the Australian Water Association’s Excellence Award for Project Innovation for its work on a project modernising irrigation in Victoria.

I love pipelines!

Mon, 15 March 2010 The Australian Pipeliner team loves pipelines – do you?

Start of Devil Creek shore crossing construction

Thu, 4 March 2010 DrillTec has commenced construction work for the shoreline crossing at Forty Mile Beach, located on the Western Australian coast, as part of Apache Energy’s Devil Creek Development Project.

Additional trains for PNG LNG?

Thu, 4 March 2010 Oil Search aims to prove up more gas reserves to underwrite construction of additional LNG trains for the proposed two-train Papua New Guinea (PNG) LNG Project.

Fyfe study feasibility of Yulara gas pipeline

Thu, 4 March 2010 Fyfe has commenced a front-end engineering study for the development of a high pressure natural gas spur line to power the town of Yulara, located near Uluru in the Northern Territory.

Arrow hits the target with Surat to Gladstone Pipeline licence

Tue, 23 February 2010 The Queensland Government has awarded Arrow Energy a Petroleum Pipeline Licence to develop a pipeline between Arrow’s coal seam gas (CSG) operations near Dalby in the Surat Basin and the proposed Gladstone ‘Fisherman’s Landing’ LNG Project.

GLNG tries a little tenderness

Tue, 23 February 2010 Santos has released the tender for engineering, procurement and construction of the GLNG pipeline, with front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the pipeline now 90 per cent complete.

Oil tieback in the pipeline to Mirage field

Tue, 23 February 2010 A proposed 5 km tieback pipeline could connect the Fury-1 discovery well to the producing Mirage Oil Field, located in the Cooper Basin, South Australia, Monitor Energy has said.

Countdown begins for WMPP’s final few hundred

Tue, 23 February 2010 Grampians Wimmera Mallee (GWM) Water has said that more than 8,500 km of the 8,800 km Wimmera Mallee Pipeline Project (WMPP), located in western Victoria, has now been installed.

Sugarloaf Pipeline opens as NPI gains conditional approval

Tue, 16 February 2010 Melbourne’s water supplies will be significantly boosted as Victorian Premier John Brumby and state Water Minister Tim Holding officially opened the Sugarloaf Pipeline, located in Victoria.

Arrow aims for 100 per cent interest in Fisherman’s Landing

Tue, 16 February 2010 Arrow Energy has reached an agreement to wholly acquire LNG Ltd’s subsidiary Gladstone LNG, and therefore the entire Gladstone ‘Fisherman’s Landing’ LNG Project, including the processing plant, associated infrastructure and pipeline.

QCLNG EPCM contract awarded, EIS comments answered

Tue, 16 February 2010 BG Group has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management contract for the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) Project’s LNG processing plant and pipeline to Bechtel Oil, Gas & Chemicals.

GLP to construct gas pipeline for Tassie micro-LNG

Wed, 10 February 2010 GLP Plant has been awarded the contract to design, build and commission the gas supply pipeline infrastructure between the Tasmanian Gas Pipeline and the BOC Micro-LNG Plant being built at Westbury in Tasmania.

Pipe laying starts on Wonthaggi Desalination Pipeline

Wed, 10 February 2010 The AquaSure Consortium has begun laying the first pipes for the 74 inch diameter, 84 km Wonthaggi Desalination Pipeline, located in southeastern Victoria.

Bulk Water pipeline on the way

Wed, 10 February 2010 ACTEW is currently completing the detailed design for the proposed 15–20 km Murrumbidgee to Googong Water Pipeline project, to be located in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), which will include the design of a mini hydro-electric generator that will offset power consumption by up to 30 per cent.

Phosphate slurry pipeline routes explored in Gulf country

Tue, 2 February 2010 Phosphate Australia is investigating three potential routes for a 355 mm diameter steel pipeline to transport up to 3 MMt/a of phosphate slurry from its Highland Plains project, located in the Northern Territory, to dewatering and storage facilities, to be located on the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Pipe suppliers steel the show at Gorgon

Tue, 2 February 2010 Japanese steelmakers JFE Steel Corporation and Marubeni-Itochu Steel have been awarded a large-volume pipe order for the Chevron-operated Gorgon LNG Development.

PNG LNG is licensed for pipelines

Tue, 2 February 2010 The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Government has granted licences for the pipeline and LNG plant, along with a production licence, to participants in the PNG LNG Project.

Johnston named DBP Chief Executive

Thu, 21 January 2010 Following a rigorous international search, Dampier Bunbury Pipeline (DBP) has named Stuart Johnston as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Greenlight for Port Bonython diesel facility and pipeline

Thu, 21 January 2010 South Australian Minister for Urban Development and Planning Paul Holloway has approved a development application to construct an $A110 million diesel storage and refinery facility, including a 5.3 km fuel pipeline, to be located at Port Bonython in the Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia.

Century zinc slurry pipeline back in full swing

Thu, 14 January 2010 Production recommenced yesterday at Minerals and Metals Group’s (MMG) Century Zinc Mine, following the installation, testing and associated repair work on a leaking slurry pipeline running from the mine to the Port of Karumba, Queensland.

MacDow-Consolidated JV wins APLNG pipeline contract

Thu, 14 January 2010 Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG) joint venture partners Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips have awarded the McConnell Dowell and Consolidated Contractors joint venture the contract to build a 450 km gas transmission pipeline for the APLNG Project, to be located in Gladstone, Queensland.

New Chief Executive for pipeline CRC

Tue, 12 January 2010 The board of the Energy Pipelines Co-operative Research Centre (EPCRC) has appointed Professor Valerie Linton as the CRC’s inaugural Chief Executive Officer.

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