Papua New Guinea to Queensland Pipeline
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The Papua New Guinea to Queensland Pipeline was a proposed natural gas pipeline between Papua New Guinea and Australia that was cancelled in 2007.[1]
Location
The original route planned to run from the Pandora gas field in the Gulf of Papua undersea to Cape York, Queensland, then onshore to Gladstone, Queensland.[2] By 2006, the route planned to start at the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea instead of offshore.[3]
Project Details
- Operator: Chevron, IPC, AGL, Petronas[4]
- Owner: Chevron, IPC, AGL, Petronas[4]
- Capacity: 600 mmcf/d[4]
- Length: 3800 km[1]
- Status: Cancelled[1]
- Start year: 2001[3]
- Cost: AU$2.5 billion[1]
Background
The pipeline was first proposed by Chevron and IPC in the 1995 as a way of delivering gas from Papua New Guinea's Pandora gas field to Australia (~3000km). It evolved into a plan to deliver gas from Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands to Northern Queensland (~3800km). IPC and Chevron were to be the primary owner/operators of the PNG segment, with AGL responsible for the onshore Australian portion and AGL responsible for the offshore Australian portion. After numerous delays and increases in the estimated cost of the project, the pipeline was called off in 2007.[3][5][6][4]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Australia-PNG pipeline called off". www.offshore-mag.com. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ Chevron, IPC join forces on Papua New Guinea-Queensland gas pipeline project, Oil & Gas Journal, Oct. 21, 1996, accessed Aug. 10, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The history of the PNG – Queensland pipeline, The Australian Pipeliner, Mar. 16, 2016, accessed Aug. 10, 2021.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "New Guinea-Aussie pipeline work let". www.ogj.com. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ PNG-QLD Gas Pipeline, JTA Australia, accessed Aug. 10, 2021.
- ↑ "PNG's planned huge gas pipeline to Queensland shelved". RNZ. 2007-02-01. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
