Woodside starts sending Pluto gas to NWS LNG plant
Australia's Woodside on March 31 said it has started processing gas from the offshore Pluto fields ahead of schedule at the North West Shelf project’s (NWS) Karratha gas plant (KGP).
This accelerated production of Pluto gas has been enabled by the start-up of the Pluto-KGP Interconnector, it added. The interconnector is a 3.2 km pipeline that connects Pluto LNG with KGP, providing access for other resource owners’ gas to be processed at KGP.
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The start-up of the interconnector supports the accelerated production of gas from the first phase of Pluto’s Pyxis Hub by enabling it to be processed at KGP.
KGP is expected to process approximately 2.5mn metric tons of LNG in aggregate and approximately 20 petajoules of domestic gas from Pluto in the period 2022 to 2025.
“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,” Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill said. “The processing of gas from the offshore Pluto fields through Karratha gas plant enables Woodside to deliver additional LNG cargoes into the international gas market.”
Woodside’s partners in the North West Shelf venture are BHP, BP, Chevron Corp, Shell and Japan’s Mitsui & Co and Mitsubishi Corp.