Chevron Australia Domestic Gas Fact Sheet
Chevron Australia
Domestic Gas
The Gorgon Project is under construction
on Barrow Island, located approximately
60 kilometres off the northwest coast of
Western Australia. The project is operated
by an Australian subsidiary of Chevron and is
a joint venture of the Australian subsidiaries
of Chevron (47.3 percent), ExxonMobil (25
percent), Shell (25 percent), Osaka Gas (1.25
percent), Tokyo Gas (1 percent) and Chubu
Electric Power (0.417 percent).
In November 2011, the Gorgon Project signed
two significant long-term domestic gas
sales contracts with Western Australia’s
largest energy retailer, Synergy and the
State’s leading energy generator, Verve
Energy. Verve and Synergy both entered into
contracts for a combined 125 terajoules of
gas per day for 20 years.
Jansz-Io Field
The project includes a three-train, 15.6
million tonnes per annum (MTPA) liquefied
natural gas (LNG) facility on Barrow Island
and a domestic gas plant with the capacity to
supply 300 terajoules of gas per day to the
Western Australian market.
The Gorgon and Jansz-Io gas fields are
located approximately 65 kilometres west
and 130 kilometres northwest respectively
of Barrow Island. A subsea gas gathering
system is located on the ocean floor at
both fields and is tied-back to the onshore
LNG plant on Barrow Island via a system of
pipelines and control umbilicals. Gorgon
LNG will be off-loaded via a 2.1 kilometre long
loading jetty for transport to international
markets. Domestic gas will be transported
to the mainland via a 90 kilometre pipeline,
connecting into the Dampier to Bunbury
Natural Gas Pipeline.
Chevron Australia markets
and sells natural gas into
the Western Australian
domestic gas market for
industrial, commercial and
household use.
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Chevron Australia Domestic Gas Fact Sheet
Wheatstone Project
fields held by Australian subsidiaries of
Woodside Petroleum Limited and KUFPEC.
In late 2011, Chevron Australia began
construction of the Wheatstone Project.
Located at Ashburton North, 12 kilometres
west of Onslow in Western Australia, the
project will consist of two LNG trains with a
combined capacity of 8.9 MTPA and a 200
terajoule per day domestic gas plant.
Gas from the Wheatstone domestic gas
plant will be delivered from Onslow via
pipeline to an inlet point on the Dampier
Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline.
Chevron’s equity share (approximately
128 terajoules per day) of domestic gas
is marketed separately via Chevron
Natural Gas Australia (CNGA), Chevron’s
marketing entity for equity domestic gas.
The Wheatstone Project is a joint venture
between Australian subsidiaries of Chevron
(64.14 percent), Kuwait Foreign Petroleum
Exploration Company (KUFPEC) (13.4
percent), Woodside Petroleum Limited
(13 percent) and Kyushu Electric Power
Company (1.46 percent), together with PE
Wheatstone Pty Ltd, part owned by TEPCO
(8 percent).
The North West Shelf Project
The North West Shelf (NWS) Project,
located on the Burrup Peninsula in
Western Australia, began supplying
domestic gas in 1984 and currently
provides around 65 percent of total
State production. Chevron is an equal
one-sixth foundation participant in the
NWS – Australia’s first LNG project. Other
participants include Woodside Energy
(project operator), BHP Billiton, BP,
Japan Australia LNG (MIMI) and Shell.
The project has a track record as a safe,
competitive and reliable supplier of
domestic gas and LNG.
Eighty percent of the project’s foundation
capacity will be fed with natural gas from
the Wheatstone and Iago fields, which
are operated by Chevron Australia in
joint venture with Australian subsidiaries
of KUFPEC and Kyushu Electric Power
Company, together with PE Wheatstone
Pty Ltd.
The remaining 20 percent of gas will be
supplied from the Julimar and Brunello
In addition to being Western Australia’s
largest producer of domestic gas, the
NWS Project also accounts for more
than one third of Australia’s oil and gas
production and is a major producer of
liquefied natural gas, natural gas, liquid
petroleum gas, condensate and crude oil.
Hydrocarbons from the project’s offshore
facilities are transported to the Karratha
Gas Plant for onshore processing via
two subsea trunklines. Domestic gas is
exported from the plant to the Dampier
to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline for
transportation to customers throughout
Western Australia.
Wheatstone
Iago
Brunello
Perth
Julimar
Barrow Island
Dampier
Karratha
Onslow
Exmouth
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