Papua New Guinea to Queensland Pipeline

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The Papua New Guinea to Queensland Pipeline was a proposed natural gas pipeline.

Location

The proposed pipeline would run from the Pandora gas field in the Gulf of Papua undersea to Cape York, Queensland, then onshore to Gladstone, Queensland.

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Project details

• Operator: Chevron, IPC
• Owner: Chevron, IPC
• Parent company: Chevron, IPC
• Capacity: 649.25 million cubic feet per day / 685 terajoules per day
• Length: 4000 kilometers / 2485 miles
• Diameter:
• Status: Cancelled
• Start year:
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure:

Background

The pipeline was first proposed by Chevron and IPC in the 1990s as a way of delivering gas from Papua New Guinea's Pandora gas field to Australia. After numerous delays and an increase in the estimated cost of the project from A$1.3 billion to A$1.5 billion, the pipeline was shelved in 2007.