Equus Gas Pipeline
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The Equus Gas Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline in Australia.[1]
Location
The original Equus pipeline would have ran from the Carnavoran Basin offshore northwest Australia, connecting the proposed Equus FLNG offshore Onslow, Western Australia to the Ashburton North Strategic Industrial Area.[1]
The updated Equus pipeline is planned to run from the Equus gas project offshore northwest Australia to the existing Pluto A Platform in Commonwealth waters.[2]
Project details
Original Equus FLNG Gas Pipeline
- Owner: Western Gas[1]
- Capacity: 331.74 mmcf/d / 350 TJ/d[3]
- Length: 210 km[1]
- Status: Cancelled
- Start Year: 2024[4]
Updated Equus Pluto A Pipeline
Background
Original Equus FLNG Gas Pipeline
In November 2017, Western Gas acquired the Equus Gas Project from Hess Corporation.[9]
In December 2018 Western Gas signed a memorandum of understanding with McDermott and Baker Hughes to develop the Equus Gas Project offshore northwest Western Australia. The project included a 2 mtpa floating LNG terminal, Equus FLNG, and the 160-km Equus Gas Pipeline.[10] In September 2019 Western Gas was reported to be seeking a partner for the project.[4]
In April 2020, gasworld reported speculation that Western Gas was likely to delay the terminal due to LNG demand uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]
In March 2021, Western Gas and APA Group signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study the possibility of delivering gas from the Equus FLNG terminal.[3]
Updated Equus Pluto A Pipeline
In December 2022, Western Gas signed two non-binding agreements to partner with North West Shelf Ventures and with Pluto LNG to use existing infrastructure to process gas from the Equus offshore project.[5] Through these agreements, Western Gas agreed to produce and export LNG through the Karratha Gas Plant and to process its gas at Pluto Train 1 once processing capacity becomes available for that facility.[7] The parties expect a final investment decision to be made in 2024 so that the first gas from the Equus project can be processed in 2027.[8]
As a result of these agreements and revised plans, the Equus project will comprise production wells linked by underwater infrastructure to a floating production storage and offloading facility (FPSO) and a new subsea gas pipeline (the updated Equus pipeline) that will connect the FPSO to the existing Pluto A platform.[5][12] From the platform, gas will be transported through the Pluto LNG Export Gas Pipeline to the Pluto LNG terminal and to the Karratha gas plant through the Pluto-KGP Interconnector Gas Pipeline.[12] The revised project plans can be found in Western Gas' Equus project website.[5]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Equus Gas Project, Western Gas, accessed Aug. 10, 2021.
- ↑ OE Digital (December 20, 2022). "Western Gas to Link its Equus Gas Field to North West Shelf And Pluto LNG Plants". OE Digital. Retrieved August 14, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 [1], The Australian Pipeliner, Mar. 2, 2021, accessed Aug. 10, 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Reuters Staff, Western Gas seeks partner for Equus LNG project off Western Australia, Reuters, Sep. 10, 2019, accessed Aug. 6, 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Equus Gas Project". Western Gas. Retrieved August 14, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Home - Western Gas". Western Gas. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Čučuk, Aida (December 20, 2022). "Western Gas partners with Pluto LNG and North West Shelf for Equus gas processing". Offshore Energy. Retrieved August 14, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Western Gas signs for Equus Gas to backfill NWS and Pluto LNG plants. - Petroleum Australia". Petroleum Australia. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ↑ Western Gas. "Our Projects - North West Shelf". Western Gas. Retrieved August 14, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Rick Wilkinson, Western Gas signs MOU for Equus gas project off Western Australia, Oil & Gas Journal, Dec. 14, 2018, accessed Aug. 6, 2021.
- ↑ Joanna Sampson, Falling oil and gas prices and COVID-19 hit Australia’s flourishing LNG sector, says GlobalData, gasworld, Apr. 23, 2020, accessed Aug. 6, 2021.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Wilkinson, Rick (Dec. 20, 2022). "Western Gas to backfill NWS, Pluto LNG plants". Oil & Gas Journal. Retrieved August 14, 2023.
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