Gorgon To Include Domestic Gas Plant  

The Australian reports that Chevron is now planning to include a domestic gas plant as part of its Gorgon development - Chevron's domestic gas proposal to coincide with LNG plan. Background material on Australian natural gas can be found here, here and here.

CHEVRON plans to include a domestic gas plant as part of its $20 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia. The company had planned to submit a proposal to develop a 300 terrajoule per day domestic gas plant by December 31, 2010 but will now accelerate that to coincide with its development proposals for the LNG project.

The importance of securing new sources of domestic gas in WA was underlined recently when Apache Energy's Varanus Island gas processing facility was shut down after a pipeline explosion, slashing the state's supply by 370 terrajoules per day. The state consumes about 1,000 terrajoules per day of domestic gas.