Arrow Energy LNG Terminal

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Arrow Energy LNG Terminal is a cancelled (confirmed) LNG export terminal in Australia.

Location

Table 1: Location details

Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Arrow Energy LNG Terminal	Curtis Island, Gladstone, Queensland, Australia	-23.6243946, 151.1444092 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the terminal:

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Project Details

Table 2: Infrastructure details

mtpa = million tonnes per year

Name	Facility type	Status	Capacity	Total terminal capacity	Offshore	Associated infrastructure
Arrow Energy LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (confirmed)	18 mtpa	18.0 mtpa	False	–

Table 3: Cost

Name	Facility type	Cost	Total known terminal costs
Arrow Energy LNG Terminal	export	US$10,896,000,000 (15,000,000,000 AUD)	US$10,896,000,000

Financing

No financing data available.

Table 4: Project timeline

FID = Final Investment Decision, used by some developers to indicate a project will move forward

Name	Facility type	Status	Proposal year	FID year	Construction year	Operating year	Inactive year
Arrow Energy LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (confirmed)	–	–	–	–	2015 (cancelled)

Ownership

Table 5: Ownership

Name	Facility type	Status	Owners	Parent companies	Operator
Arrow Energy LNG Terminal	export	cancelled (confirmed)	Shell PLC; PetroChina Co Ltd	PetroChina Co Ltd; Shell PLC	–

Background

Arrow Energy LNG Terminal was a proposed LNG terminal in Queensland, Australia. It was planned to be supplied by coal seam gas. Shell cancelled the project in 2015 because of cost concerns.

Natural Gas in Australia

As of 2017, Australia is the second largest LNG exporter after Qatar. The country exports almost 44 million tons a year.

Australia's Coal Seam Environmental Concerns

Arrow Energy LNG was to use coal seam gas.

In December 2014, Queensland Curtis LNG became the world's first project to turn coal seam gas into LNG for export. Curtis Island's two other LNG plants, Queensland Curtis LNG Terminal and Gladstone LNG Terminal also convert coal seam gas into LNG.

Coal seam gas projects in Australia are not without controversy. Coal seam gas (abbreviated "CSG") is formed by the geological process of heating and compressing plant matter to create coal. Over millions of years, methane forms within the coal. The methane is trapped by water in the gaps and cracks between the coal molecules. These gaps are known as cleats. Australia has been found to have many deposits, and is increasingly mining them through hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.

CSG is a form of coalbed methane (CBM), or coalbed gas, and is a type of natural gas extracted from coal beds. In recent decades it has become an increasingly used source of energy in Australia, as well as the United States, Canada, and other countries.

Australian green groups and farmers have raised concerns about coal seam gas development. In May 2010 four toxic chemicals - benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX) - were discovered in eight exploration wells owned by the Australia Pacific LNG Terminal in the Surat Basin. But the Queensland Government has ruled out a moratorium on the industry.

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