March 2016, Vol. 243, No. 3
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Australia's Gorgon, One of the World's Largest LNG Terminals, Ships First Cargo
Australia’s Gorgon project, one of the largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in the world, shipped its first cargo last week to Japan. Located on Barrow Island off the coast of northwestern Australia, the project includes a domestic natural gas plant, a carbon dioxide injection project, and an LNG export facility. Its three liquefaction units, also known as trains, have a combined capacity of 2.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). The first train was commissioned in March, with the second and third trains to follow at six- to nine-month intervals. The Gorgon project took more than six years to develop, with the original estimated capital costs of $37 billion U.S. dollars in 200
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