South West Queensland Pipeline

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The South West Queensland Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline.[1]

Location

The pipeline runs from Moomba, South Australia to the Ballera gas processing plant in Ballera, Queensland, and from there to the Wallumbilla hub in Roma, Queensland.[1][2] It includes both the South West Queensland Pipeline (SWQP) between Wallumbilla and Ballera (755 kilometers) and the QSN Link Gas Pipeline, which was a 182-kilometer extension of the SWQP between Ballera and Moomba.[3]

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Project details

  • Operator: APA Group[1]
  • Parent company: APA Group[1]
  • Capacity: 404 terajoules per day[1]
  • Length: 937 kilometers[1]
  • Status: Operating
  • Start year: 1996

Background

The pipeline is owned and operated by APA Group.[4] Built in 1996 to carry gas from gas in a west to east direction from the Ballera gas processing plant in south west Queensland to the Wallumbilla supply hub, the pipeline was expanded in 2008 with the 182-kilometer QSN Link to Moomba.[1] In 2014, the pipeline was reconfigured to be bidirectional.[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 QLD: South West Queensland Pipeline, Australian Energy Market Commission, accessed Aug. 16, 2021.
  2. Commonwealth of Australia (March 2017). "Oil and Gas Pipelines". Geoscience Australia. Retrieved September 5, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "South West Queensland Pipeline - APA Group". www.apa.com.au. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  4. SWQP Diagram, APA Group, accessed Aug. 16, 2021.

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