Victorian Transmission System
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The Victorian Transmission System (VTS), also known as the Principal Transmission System (PTS), or GasNet system, is an operating pipeline system in the state of Victoria in Australia.[1]
Location
The pipeline system is located throughout the Australian state of Victoria.[1]
Project Details
Main Line
- Owner: APA Group[1]
- Operator: APA Group[1]
- Capacity: 976.25 mmcf/d / 1030 TJ/d[2]
- Length: 2035 km[2][3]
- Status: Operating[1]
- Start year: 1969[4]
Western Outer Ring Main
- Owner: APA Group[5]
- Operator: APA Group[5]
- Length: 51 km[5]
- Status: Operating[5]
- Start year: 2023[5]
Background
The Victorian Transmission System (VTS) began in the 1950s and comprises approximately 1993 kilometers of high-pressure gas transmission pipelines, serving approximately 1.4 million residential consumers and 43,000 industrial and commercial users, with a capacity of 571.32 million cubic feet per day.[6]
Gas can enter or exit the system from the Longford gas plant and the VicHub in the east, Culcairn in NSW, the western underground gas storage (WUGS) facility at Iona, the SEA Gas Pipeline, Otway Gas Plant and Mortlake Pipeline through their connection to the SEA Gas Pipeline at Port Campbell, the Pakenham facility and the Dandenong LNG facility. Gas can also be injected from the Tasmanian Gas Pipeline (TasHub) into the VTS at Longford. Gas is principally sourced from offshore gas fields in the Gippsland, Bass and Otway basins.
The capacity of the VTS has been progressively expanded between 2014 and 2017 to transport additional gas between NSW and Victoria at Culcairn. In 2015, additional capacity on the South West Pipeline was added for gas flows from the facilities at Iona and the SEA Gas Pipeline at Port Campbell.[3]
In 2023, the Western Outer Ring Main (WORM) pipeline was added to increase capacity. It connects from Plumpton to Wollert.[5]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Victorian Transmission System, APA, accessed Aug. 16, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 State of the Energy Market 2013, AER, 2013, accessed Aug. 16, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 VIC: Victorian Transmission System, AEMC, accessed Aug. 16, 2021.
- ↑ "victorian transmission system access arrangement submission" (PDF). AER. 2020. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
{{cite web}}: line feed character in|title=at position 30 (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 "Western Outer Ring Main (WORM)". www.apa.com.au. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
- ↑ APA Group - upping the ante on Victoria’s gas transmission, Oil & Gas Today, Feb. 2012, accessed Aug. 16, 2021.
