Moomba Sydney Pipeline System

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The Moomba Sydney Pipeline System is an operating natural gas pipeline network in Australia.

Location

The pipeline runs from the Cooper basin gas fields at Moomba in South Australia to gas distribution systems in Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, and Canberra.

Project details

Mainline

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• Capacity: 446 terajoules per day
• Length: 1300 kilometers
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Dalton to Canberra Pipeline

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• Capacity: 446 terajoules per day
• Length: 58 kilometers
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Young to Lithgow and Bathurst Pipeline

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• Capacity: 25 terajoules per day
• Length: 245 kilometers
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Young to Wagga Wagga Pipeline

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• Capacity: 223 terajoules per day
• Length: 131 kilometers
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Burnt Creek to Griffith Pipeline

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• Capacity: 13 terajoules per day
• Length: 179 kilometers
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Culcairn to Wagga Wagga Pipeline

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• Capacity: 223 terajoules per day
• Length: 88 kilometers
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Background

The Moomba Sydney Pipeline System is operated by Eastern Australian Pipeline Limited, which is owned by APA Group. It first began operations in 1976. In 2008, the completion of the QSN Link pipeline meant that the Moomba to Sydney Pipeline began carrying coal seam gas from the Bowen-Surat basin in Queensland. In 2015, the MSP was reversed so gas would flow from Sydney to Moomba and then north to Gladstone to feed LNG export trains.