Gas production explained Domestic supply Thai triumph

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november 2013 Issue 31
Gas production explained
What and where our infrastructure is
Domestic supply
Chairman hits scare campaign
Thai triumph
45,000 tonnes safely built and shipped
PLUS…
Support for rural fire fighters
Boost for indigenous health
QGC finalists in innovation awards
Coordination is vital
QGC is entering the home stretch to have gas safely delivered to the liquefied natural gas plant on Curtis
Island around the end of the year. That will enable the start of commissioning of the plant.
As we approach this momentous event, let us be clear: safety is our first priority and we must not
prioritise milestones at the expense of our people.
All of our people are authorised to stop a job that they feel is being done unsafely.
This culture will also improve our overall performance because the disciplines that keep us in one piece
encourage better planning and attention to the task at hand. It is win for you and a win for the business.
In my new role as Deputy Managing Director, I am providing more direct help to Managing Director
Derek Fisher as we meet the challenging targets to bring on line the biggest project that BG Group has
developed. More than 12,000 people are pulling together to reach this goal, across 4500 square kilometres.
We are on track to deliver and success relies on teamwork and coordination, particularly in the gas fields.
The development of our gas tenements involves a large and diverse network of stakeholders in the
community as well as our own staff and the contractors we rely on to carry out work on our behalf.
Drilling and connecting wells, for instance, require coordination between many parts of our business
so we get the most out of our resources and have minimal impact. We will build our reputation in the
community only if we excel in this.
One example of our commitment to a coordinated approach is the systematic way we address gas field
development, based on principles of the assembly line.
Each team and individual must understand their role in the process, the relevant quality and safety
standards and recognise deadlines for moving to the next stage.
This is explained in a special feature in this issue that explains what and where our gas production
infrastructure is and how it works together.
Coordination and teamwork are crucial aspects of working respectfully in the community and I urge
everybody to work with this in mind. It should be no surprise that they are also key elements of safe
working.
Mitch Ingram
Deputy Managing Director
and QCLNG Project Director
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Our business
QCLNG progress
4–5
Gas fields construction
6–7
Pipeline construction
8–9
LNG plant construction
10 – 11
Catherine Tanna talks domestic gas
12 – 13
Premier’s trade mission
13
QGC welcomes complaint dismissal
14
Project road conditions met
14
All about the Upstream
15 – 18
Understanding tenures
19
Thai module yard shuts down
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20 – 21
Our community
Investing in community road safety
22
QGC earns its chops
23
QGC funds weed washdown
24
QGC provides affordable housing
24
Support for rural fires service
25
Business group visits Curtis Island
25
Indigenous arts, training and health
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26 – 27
Our people
Bridge to Brisbane
28
Smith and sons
28
Chief Executive Innovations Awards
29
Golden hard hat winners
29
Water pipeline recognised
29
Spatial science
30
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On the cover
Construction is advancing
quickly at Ruby Jo Central
Processing Plant
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Project on track
for LNG in 2014
Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) will be the world’s first
All but one of the 80 construction modules have arrived at
project to turn natural gas from coal seams into liquefied
Curtis Island, with the final delivery due by November.
natural gas, or LNG.
The project, which has been under construction since 2010,
will provide cleaner hydrocarbon energy for export markets
from 2014.
This major, integrated project involves:
In the gas production areas of southern Queensland,
the pace of drilling is ahead of expectations with more than
50 wells being drilled each month.
More than three quarters of the 2,000 wells required for the
first two trains to run at capacity have now been drilled. In
• Expanding QGC’s natural gas production in the Surat
Basin of southern Queensland.
• Construction of a 200 kilometre, 42-inch gas collection
header pipeline and a 340 kilometre, 1m-diameter export
addition, the first major water treatment facility at the Kenya
facility near Chinchilla, about 300 kilometres north-west
of Brisbane, has been commissioned and first water was
exported in July.
pipeline to Gladstone.
Activity is also well advanced at gas processing facilities
• Constructing a natural gas liquefaction plant on Curtis
Island, near Gladstone, where the gas will be converted
to LNG for export.
comprising a central processing plant and six associated
field compression stations near Dalby. These are critical for
delivering first LNG in 2014.
Good progress continues to be made, with the project more
than 70% complete and on track for both first LNG in 2014
In September, QGC awarded a contract for construction
and the US$20.4 billion budget.
of gas processing facilities to Australian construction and
Commissioning of the 200km header pipeline has begun.
The full pipeline network is expected to be completed by the
end of 2013.
On Curtis Island, construction of the liquefaction plant –
comprising two production units, known as trains – and other
resources contractor Thiess Pty Ltd.
The A$1.8 billion contract involves the construction of 22
gas processing facilities in the Surat Basin to service QGC’s
Queensland Curtis LNG Project by October 2014.
key facilities are well on track. The construction of modular
It is expected that the LNG plant will be ready to start
components for the plant has been completed. Both LNG
commissioning with gas around the end of 2013. First LNG
storage tank roofs were raised in the first half of 2013.
sales are expected to begin in the second half of 2014.
Nickel steel plating is fixed to LNG Tank B
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Gasfield update
I’m proud to say that
our Queensland Cur tis
L N G cons tru c tion and
commissioning work is on track
to deliver first LNG in 2014.
QGC Deputy Managing Director and QCLNG Project Director Mitch Ingram, left,
and Thiess Managing Director Bruce Munro sign the A$1.8 billion agreement
Wells, gathering lines and
gas compression facilities are
well advanced in the southern
development area near
Dalby, with crews preparing
equipment for final testing.
Safety is a critical part of
everybody’s job, particularly
as the rate of work increases.
So far in 2013, QGC and our
contractors have conducted
more than 15,000 observations
and interventions to assess
safety in the workplace and
take action to prevent injuries.
Bolts are tightened to ensure safe operation
Electrical earthing work at Isabella Field Compression Station
We have implemented a
new league table for our
contrac tors’ health and
safety performance, which
is creating good-natured
competition and encouraging
improved safety performance
across the board, with the
GELOR consortium of GE
Betz and Laing O’Rourke
Construction topping the
table most recently.
Our QCLNG compression
team awarded a major
A$1.8billion contract to Thiess
in September.
The new Thiess works will see
employment of up to 2,600
people by early 2014, with
crews working on 18 field
compression stations and
four central processing plants
between Dalby and Wandoan.
A Thiess worker tests equipment
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Upstream Project Director
Theo Roderburg
in an integrated organisation
and I’m looking forward to the
results of a close partnership.
O ther recent highlights
include:
• The last of the switchrooms
for our central processing
plants was delivered to our
Bellevue development block,
near Miles, in September.
• Ponds are progressing well,
with bulk earthworks finished
at the Polaris block near our
northern Woleebee Creek
development hub, and lining
installed on the Glendower
pond near Dalby.
• Woleebee Creek Camp
opened 300 more rooms and
an extra kitchen, which brings
the camp to more than 1,400
beds.
Our procurement team has
achieved cost savings of
almost 12 per cent on our
wellsite materials, including
skids, valves and pipe spools
– an excellent effort.
A video showing the
latest progress on QCLNG
can be viewed at http://
goo.gl/5ur0DX
or scan this QR code.
Our teams will be working
side by side with Thiess staff
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A 250 tonne crane lifts compressor
equipment into place
MAKING LIGHT WORK
of heavy lifting
Precision engineering is an
integral part of a project
as large and diverse as
Queensland Curtis LNG and is
critical to getting the job done
safely and on time.
Recently the final screw
compressor and cooler
package was installed at
Glendower Field Compression
Station, bringing the total
number of heavy lifts safely
completed by QGC and our
contractors to 48, and the total
mass hoisted to 2,300 tonnes.
Field compression stations
take gas at low pressure from
wells and increase the flow
rate through a pipeline to
another processing facility
called a central processing
plant. In a screw compressor
gas is compressed between
two intermeshing, counterrotating screws.
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Just getting the compressor
and cooler packages to site
is a feat.
T he compre ss or skids ,
measuring 6.5 metres wide
and 4.4 metres high, and
weighing 65 tonnes, are each
jacked on to seven-axle lowloader trucks with 64 wheels
to start their journey to the
Western Downs.
They travel under police
escort and sometimes two
prime movers join forces to
haul the compressors over the
Toowoomba range.
Once on site, a 250-tonne
crawler crane steadily lifts the
units into place and crews fix
24 anchor bolts.
The experienced QGC and
contractor teams can now
lift and lower a cooler into
place, then change spreader
bars and crane position to lift
and lower the compressor
into place, within two hours
of equipment arriving on site.
The team has also streamlined
works by pre-assembling
acoustic enclosure frames,
which means these noise
reduc tion units can be
installed immediately over the
compressors.
Brad Sayer, QGC’s lead project
engineer for the installation,
said this was an enormous
advantage to the project
as compressors were fully
covered within a day of
arriving on site.
Compressor equipment is hauled to site
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Pipeline update
The QCLNG pipeline team
is making good progress on
our way to pipe gas to Curtis
Island and hit our target for
first LNG in 2014.
Work continues on the 130m-high rise
We are now lowering in the
final sections of the 540km
pipeline network and, by
the end of October we are
scheduled to have lowered
in and backfilled all sections.
One of the recent construction
challenges we have faced is
building the pipeline on steep
terrain.
The steepest slope along the
pipeline route is known as The
Escarpment, on the Callide
Range near Biloela.
Pipe laying at Grevillea Creek, 22km south of Biloela
The escarpment is 131 metres
high and rises at a 30 degree
angle. Building the pipeline
along this steep slope required
sp e cialis t cons truc tion
techniques.
Read the opposite page for
an idea of the complexity of
techniques used to achieve
the task.
Side booms lift 24m sections of pipe
Our focus for the 200km
Gas Collection Header is on
commissioning work to get
the pipeline ready for the
introduction of gas.
Project Director Pipelines
Norman Ingram
to introduce gas progressively
into the remainder of the
header and it is scheduled
to be completed in the final
quarter.
Our crews have essentially
f inished reinstating the
easement, with topsoil
replenished on the entire
header.
At the Gladstone end of the
pipeline, lowering in and
backfilling is complete on the
mainland and on Curtis Island.
Safety is always paramount
in everything we do.
On the QCLNG pipeline driving
remains our number one risk,
with an average of 1.2 million
Looking down the escarpment as excavation continues
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To this end we have reached a
significant milestone with the
successful introduction of gas
into the 11km Kenya Lateral
– a pipeline that connects
the QCLNG pipeline with the
Kenya Central Processing
Plant.
kilometres – or 29 times the
Preparation work is ongoing
home safely.
Earth’s circumference – driven
a month.
We remain vigilant, and to this
end have implemented a Zero
Tolerance driving program to
ensure that everybody gets
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Excavation continues an hour’s drive
north-east of Biloela
PIPE EXCAVATION
Reaches new heights
Pipeline crews and engineers
relished the challenge posed
by an escarpment in one of
the f inal sec tions of
excavation for the 540km
Queensland Cur tis LNG
(QCLNG) pipeline network.
Machinery was tethered to
The slope, about an hour’s
drive north-east of Biloela, is
just 130 metres high but is a
steep 30 degrees.
skilled and experienced
Crews used conventional
equipment such as
excavators, bulldozers, side
booms and rock blasting at
the escarpment.
anchor block was put to work
But they added a heavyweight
addition to their arsenal:
a 200-tonne anchor block
positioned at the peak.
One by one, 20 12-metre
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the anchor block to allow safe
clearing of the easement and
trenching works.
Anchoring was essential on
such steep terrain, as were
machine operators.
Once the clearing and
trenching was done, the same
winching the pipes up the
escarpment with a maximum
force of 45 tonnes.
sections of 1m-diameter
steel pipe were welded at
the bottom of the hill.
As each joint was completed,
the string was winched up, 24
metres at a time, on rollers
installed in the trench.
With patient welding
and winching, the rollers
eventually helped to carry the
230-metre string of welded
pipe to the top of the ridge.
The process took less than
three weeks, to be followed by
backfilling and reinstatement
of the route.
The QCLNG pipeline
negotiates diverse terrain
and makes 1,100 road and
waterway crossings on its
route from Wandoan to
Curtis Island.
But it is this short but vital
section – and its engineering
solution – that has drawn the
most interest.
BG Group Chief Operating
O f f i c e r an d E xe c u t i v e
Director Martin Houston,
Executive Vice President
Human Resources Rob Booker
and Executive Vice President
G l o b al M ar ke t ing an d
Shipping Matt Schatzman
all took the time to inspect
and climb the escarpment
during a recent visit.
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Island update
The major work focus at
our LNG plant site on Curtis
Island is now on connecting
and completing the various
components of the facility.
On LNG Tank B, the second of
five courses has been installed
for the 9% nickel primary tank.
The view from inside LNG Tank B
Vertical welding to join the
plates is underway and work
has started on the welding
joining the first and second
courses.
The high- voltage cable
p u l l s f o r t h e Tr a i n 2
compressor substation to
the main substation has been
completed. This means that all
Train 2 high voltage cable pulls
are complete.
The skyline rises on Curtis Island
The train 2 cryogenic rack
module has been placed on
its foundations. This module
links the gas refrigeration
units to the compressors,
which are the last stage of
the liquefaction process.
Foam glass insulation is being
applied to the refrigerant
(ethylene and propane)
storage lines.
This aerial view shows progress on the LNG loading jetty
Close up view of LNG Train 1 looking east
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The main process flare has
been raised and installed. This
allows for the safe disposal
release of hydrocarbons
released in the event of an
emergency or controlled
discharge.
The point where the QCLNG
pipeline connects with the
42” export pipeline’s aboveground spool, where it ties in
with the LNG plant, has been
pressure tested for strength
and leaks.
Project Director Midstream
David Craft
At the LNG jetty, where ships
will be filled with liquefied
gas, the 10 mooring and
berthing dolphin pilecaps are
complete, including all jetty
cathodic protection.
Dolphins are marine structures
to support mooring of ships.
Walkways are being built
between the jetty head and
the dolphins, or platforms. The
cathodic protection system
uses sacrificial aluminium
anodes to protect the steel
piles, which support the jetty
structures, from corrosion by
the seawater.
The roof is being sheeted
on the Train 1 compressor
building.
All module construction at
the Thailand facility is now
complete. The final two
modules set sail for Curtis
Island in September. Of the
80 modules required for Curtis
Island, 79 have now been
received at Curtis Island with
65 modules now set in place.
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The first group of QCLNG
plant operators in training
take a field trip to the roof
of LNG Tank B
lng plant operators
in technical training
Midstream’s LNG Operations team are undertaking technical
training courses to prepare for the start-up of the Curtis
Island plant.
A group of 30 has just completed the course, a second is on
the course now and a third will start early next year.
The course, run by experts from the Bechtel LNG Technology
Group and ConocoPhillips’ LNG Licensing Group, takes QCLNG
staff a step closer to operational readiness.
beginning of the integration, he said.
About 200 staff and contractors will operate and maintain
our LNG facility.
We will directly employ about 160 people, of which we have
hired more than 120. About half are from the Gladstone area.
Each undergoes four to six months of initial training to ensure
they have the skills required to operate the LNG facility safely.
LNG Production Team Leader James Lynch said the Houstonbased trainers, who have experience in Egypt, Trinidad,
Equatorial Guinea, Alaska, Darwin and other sites, incorporated
classroom teaching and field trips to the Queensland Curtis
LNG plant.
“We talk specifically about our plant and its design, focusing
on safe and efficient start-up and operations,” James said.
QCLNG operators would work with Bechtel and ConocoPhillips
through the start-up process, and the training marked the
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Close up view of LNG Train 1 looking east
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domestic gas supply
QGC urges rational debate
The following is an abridged
text of a speech – Domestic
G a s Tr a n s f o r m a t i o n –
gi ven by BG Australia
Chairman Catherine Tanna
at the Australian National
Conference on Resources and
Energy in Canberra.
The gas industry in Australia
has s e en c o nsid er ab l e
transformation.
This has included:
•
The
initial
development and now
maturing of eastern Australia’s
two major gas sources – the
Cooper Basin and Bass Strait,
particularly for gas sourced
from conventional reservoirs;
•
The imminent shift
from the production of the
“lower hanging fruit” in these
mature basins; and
•
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The increasing shift
to gas from the unfortunately
named “unconventional”
sources.
South Australia and New
South Wales relying on these
sources to meet demand.
These changes are important
in shaping the east coast
market, and they bring
stresses on the market and its
participants, and have caused
considerable debate.
In Queensland, natural gas
from coal seams now supplies
about 90% of the market and
our company, QGC, supplies
about 20% of that demand.
It is against this backdrop that
I will deal with what seem to
have become mantras that
are regularly repeated with
great authority though, I
think, with substantially less
substance.
The first mantra is that the
east coast market, particularly
in New South Wales and
Queensland, is or will soon
be short of gas.
The east coast market is still
dominated by gas from the
Cooper Basin and Bass Strait
with Tasmania, Victoria,
Gas from coal seams also
supplies about 11% of the New
South Wales gas market.
This is made up of about 5%
from New South Wales with
the balance from Queensland.
In all, gas from coal seams
provides about 35% of all gas
used in eastern Australia.
Therefore, 65% of this market
is met by conventional natural
gas from the Cooper Basin
in Queensland and South
Australia and from Victoria.
Indeed, we have seen clear
evidence of this in recent
times with Origin’s purchase
of more than 400 petajoules
from Bass Strait.
Despite this, some people
have a view that the gas
committed to LNG means the
whole domestic market does
not have access to gas.
Domestic and commercial
users consume about 3% of
total gas used in Queensland.
I n N e w S o u t h Wal e s ,
domestic and commercial
users consume about 20% of
that state’s total gas supply.
These users are supplied by the
so-called “gas aggregators”,
such as AGL and Origin, who
rely on their own gas as well
as gas from producers such
as QGC.
The gas aggregators have
significant contracts with gas
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“A scare campaign has no place in this debate. Instead,
the focus should be on challenges facing industrial gas users.”
producers and they continue
to contract for further supply
as evidenced by Origin’s
recent purchase.
unavailable, they are often
really saying they cannot
contract gas at a price they
want to pay.
They are very experienced in
dealing with the gas market.
Often, these users want to
pay an historically based price
which has been relatively low.
In short, we are confident
that the east coast will have
sufficient gas to supply the
domestic and commercial gas
sector well into the future.
Existing contracts, of course,
were priced to allow them
to increase at a rate below
the increase in the consumer
price index.
This pricing formula was
common in gas contracts in
Australia for many years.
However, prices today reflect
different cost structures from
those of a decade ago.
These costs are driven by
factors that include greater
complexity in gas production,
increased environmental
obligations and conditions on
producers, and, particularly,
rising construction and labour
costs in the resources sector.
So, gas supply for the
household and commercial
sector is secure, even though
it is only a relatively small part
of the total gas market.
This point is impor tant
because it means homes,
shops, restaurants and other
commercial activities have a
secure, contracted gas supply.
A scare campaign, therefore,
has no place in this debate.
Instead, the focus should be
on challenges facing industrial
gas users.
When gas users say gas is
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Gas users now face two
significant challenges in
their pricing – the more rapid
escalation of prices for reasons
I have already described, and
greater potential for price
volatility, which has been
the experience overseas for
several years.
The inability to obtain this
“cheap” gas is distinctly
different from the ability to
contract gas supplies at all.
Gas is available.
It may not be at a price that
matches historical prices, but
it is available.
The second mantra is that
large gas reserves on the east
coast are being channelled
overseas rather than being
supplied to local users.
Let me put this in context.
Queensland has very large
inferred resources of natural
gas from coal seams.
Please note – this is exactly
what they are – inferred
resources, and they need
to be developed to a stage
where we have a high degree
of comfort that they can be
produced.
The term that is frequently
used is “bankable reserves”.
“Bankable reserves” are real
reserves.
These are the reserves that
customers are looking for
when they want long-term
gas contracts.
We hear from industrial gas
users that they want longterm, secured gas supplies to
underwrite new investments.
If we are hearing this correctly,
then they want proven and
probable – or so-called 2P –
reserves.
But get ting an inferred
resource to 2P reserves is
expensive and risky.
In Queensland, significant
volumes of inferred resources
have been upgraded to 2P
reserves over the past few
years.
But the large investment in
proving those reserves has
occurred only because of the
investment in LNG.
We think it is reasonable for
gas users to reassess their
historical view of how gas
contracts look in terms of
structure, length and pricing;
revisit what was previously
an option in Australia of
exploring for your own
gas; and underwrite gas
exploration to share risk.
Asian
trade
mission
BG Australia Chairman
Catherine Tanna in late
September joined Premier
Campbell Newman on a
Queensland Government
trade mission to China and
Japan.
They visited the
Ohgishima LNG import
facility of Tokyo Gas,
w hi c h is o n e o f th e
Queensland Curtis LNG
Projec t ’s foundation
customers.
Mr Newman is pictured at
the facility, where Tokyo
Gas Member of The Board,
Senior Executive Officer
and Chie f E xe cu ti ve
of Energy Produc tion
Division Yutaka Kunigo
said the company looked
forward to receiving its
first cargo of LNG sourced
from natural gas in coal
seams.
The east coast gas market
is in transition and we all
face problems, particularly
if New South Wales does not
contribute.
While managing the transition
is important, we need to be
sure that we have a clear
understanding of what we
are managing.
We should not manage for
imagined problems and we
should not manage for the
gain of a few.
Premier Campbell Newman
meets Tokyo Gas executive
Yutaka Kunigo, who proudly
wears his Queensland rugby
league jersey
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QGC welcomes complaint dismissal
QGC welcomed the Queensland Crime
and Misconduct Commission’s (CMC)
dismissal of complaints relating to major
project approvals.
Managing Director Derek Fisher said
the complaints had unfairly cast a pall
over good, honest people who had been
involved in approvals for the Queensland
Curtis LNG Project.
“We welcome the commission’s findings,
which we can now put behind us and get
on with delivering a first-class, world-first
industry for Queensland,” he said.
Mr Fisher said QGC had always believed
the complaints were baseless.
Given the highly specialised and complex
nature of the matter, the CMC engaged
retired Supreme Court Justice Stanley
Jones AO QC, based on his experience
in the field of environmental and
planning law.
Between April and September, Mr Jones
thoroughly examined the available
material, which included tens of
thousands of pages of documents.
He also interviewed former and current
departmental staff.
Mr Jones could find no evidence on
which a complaint of official misconduct
against any person could reasonably
be based, and no circumstances which
would justify further investigation.
“We would hope that people who
make these complaints in future think
seriously before publicly risking people’s
reputations,” Mr Fisher said.
“It is also gratifying that someone of
the stature of Mr Stanley Jones AO QC
has found that there was no breach of
environmental protection laws in the
granting of the project approvals.
“We trust the commission’s findings will
restore public confidence in Queensland’s
approvals process, which is one of the
most rigorous in the world.”
Read QGC’s media statement at http://
goo.gl/cVQtwu and the commission’s
statement at http://goo.gl/sMmOId
Road-related project approval conditions met
QGC’s collaborative approach to road management has
succeeded in meeting road-related conditions of approval
for the Queensland Curtis LNG Project (QCLNG).
The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) has
advised the Co-ordinator-General’s office that QGC has
met the conditions.
“This close-out follows signing an infrastructure agreement
and a series of successful meetings between QGC and
TMR representatives over road-use management matters
which are documented in a road-use management plan,”
the department told the Co-ordinator-General.
“Regular meetings between both parties will continue to
ensure road-related issues are resolved as they arise.”
QGC Project Manager Roads Mal Hellmuth said QCLNG was
the first project to reach the milestone.
“We’ve moved from a rigorous adherence to conditions
to a model that says the way we do business is one which
ensures we have regular communications (with road
regulators), recognise changes in traffic conditions and
collaborate with TMR on those changes,” Mal said.
As well as road-widening and intersection projects
agreed with the department, QGC has carried out extra
road improvements.
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Mal Hellmuth, right, with Western Downs Regional Council’s Mick Gleeson at
Kumbarilla Lane near Dalby where QGC has committed more than A$10 million
to roadworks.
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HOW WE DEVELOP
Gas in the Surat Basin
The scale of natural gas
deposits in eastern Australia
is difficult to comprehend.
The Queensland Curtis LNG
It is estimated that there are
resources of more than 250
trillion cubic feet in the coal
beneath our feet.
We are on track to have drilled
That’s equivalent to supplying
the current Aus tr alian
domestic market for about
250 years.
first LNG tanker to dock in
Project is developing 4,500
square kilometres.
the required 2,000 wells in
these tenements by the end
of 2014, enabling us to fill the
Queensland.
Each of these wells requires
gathering pipe to connect
If you turned back the clock
about 250 years, Captain
Cook was about to set sail on
the journey that would take
him to the shores of eastern
Australia.
with a field compression
QGC’s reserves and resources
are a little more than one
tenth of that total, under
more than 30,000 square
kilometres of territory.
Field compression stations
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Because we need to release
the pressure of groundwater
to produce gas, we are also
building two big new water
treatment plants.
station. We are building
20 new field compression
stations, each fed by about
100 wells.
need to be connected by pipe
– known as trunklines – to
central processing plants, of
which we are building four.
To do all that, our teams
must meet more than 1,500
environmental conditions,
with each set of approvals
underpinned by a further,
estimated 8000 subconditions.
who work on our behalf: 4,300
in upstream development;
2,000 on the pipeline; and
1,000 in drilling.
And we must do all of this
work safely and respectfully.
All in all, this upstream
development is a world-scale
project in its own right.
It’s a complicated challenge
We mus t work with
environmental and cultural
heritage constraints and take
into account the requirements
of joint venture partners,
landholders and other parts
of the community.
but one that we are meeting
Every day we have countless
interactions with our partners,
which include contractor staff
does, how it is all connected
on a daily basis.
Over the next few pages
we explain what our
infrastructure in the Surat
Basin is, where it is, what it
and the process that ties it all
together.
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Safe production of natural gas
Overview of QCLNG
Natural gas has been
metres apart.
extracted from coal
Exploration
Production
seams in Queensland
since the early 1990s.
QGC assesses whether a
More than 90% of
gas production using satellite
the state’s natural
gas demand now
location has potential for
images, aerial photographs
and field and seismic surveys.
This may include drilling an
comes from this
exploration well and taking
source.
samples.
QGC has explored for
this resource since
1999 and produced
since 2006.
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An exploration well helps us
After a reservoir has been
discovered, gas and the water
that has kept it in place are
extracted via a production
well.
We expect to drill about 2,000
production wells in southern
Queensland in the first stage
of our Queensland Curtis
LNG Project.
production well allows us to
Most of the produc tion
wells we drill are between
300 and 800 metres, in the
Walloon Coal Measures of the
Surat Basin.
bring the gas to the surface.
Wells are t ypically 750
to understand the nature,
size and commercial viability
of a gas reserve, while a
Our wells are designed so
that gas and water travel
directly from the extraction
point inside the well to the
surface without connection
to surrounding aquifers.
Isolation is achieved by layers
of steel casing, which is held
in place with impermeable
cement.
Processing
of gas
Gas and water are separated
at the well site and the gas is
transferred at low pressure
through underground
our business november 2013
from Queensland coal seams
“gathering” pipelines to a field
compression station.
Field compression stations
remove water and impurities
and increase the pressure
of gas to improve the flow
rate through a steel pipeline
to another facility called a
central processing plant.
The natural gas we produce
from the Surat Basin is about
98% methane and, therefore,
requires minimal processing.
Several field compression
stations are linked to one
central processing plant.
At a central processing
plant the last traces of
water are removed and the
gas is further compressed
for transportation in highpressure pipelines to
domestic gas infrastructure
or the Queensland Curtis
LNG liquefaction plant on
Curtis Island.
Processing
of water
The production of natural
gas trapped in coal seams
requires the removal of water.
Well diagram
facilities in southern
Our two big treatment plants
will have the combined
Transportation
Queensland to a liquefaction
An array of infrastructure –
including pipelines, holding
ponds and treatment plants
– allows QGC to produce,
transpor t and treat this
water before beneficial use by
farmers, towns and industry.
capacit y to treat about
By 2014, we will have invested
about A$1 billion in water
facilities and infrastructure.
QGC’s Kenya and Woleebee
If earmarked for expor t
near Dalby and Wandoan,
Creek sites, near Chinchilla
markets, it will be transported
and a 340km export pipeline
and Wandoan respectively.
from Q GC’s pro cessing
to Gladstone.
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plant on Curtis Island, via a
1m-diameter steel pipeline.
200 megalitres a day – or
about 80 Olympic-sized
Natural gas for domestic
swimming pools – during
The pipeline network is
customers may be piped
peak production.
540km and comprises a
to a local power station
These facilities are located at
or industry.
200km collection header,
linking production areas
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How the jigsaw fits together
Developing the myriad
infrastructure across the
Surat Basin requires a coordinated and systematic
approach.
each team uses its expertise
at the appropriate point in
the process and then passes
it on to other experts down
the line.
The principles are the same
as those developed by Henry
Ford when he transformed
car manufacturing with the
assembly line.
Ford was able to build cars in
one-tenth the time of other
manufacturers and then focus
on further innovation and
continuous improvements.
He realised that a product is
created most efficiently when
In QGC the blueprint for
the assembly line is the
Upstream Delivery Process.
As in any other efficient
manufac turing process,
each team and individual
must understand their role
in the process, the relevant
quality and safety standards
and recognise deadlines for
moving to the next stage.
This process involves a
range of business areas
as work progresses from
desktop concept, is verified
on the ground, access is
granted, approvals obtained,
contractors execute work
packages and hand them over
for long-term operations.
It enables us to determine
who is doing what, when
and where, so that we can
develop natural gas in a safe
and respectful way.
North
•
Roughly Miles to Wandoan
•
Six gas processing facilities by end 2014
•100 megalitre water treatment plant,
supplying for beneficial use
•Key partners: CNOOC; Tokyo Gas; Toyota
Tsusho; Senex Energy
Central
•
Roughly Tara to Miles
•
14 gas processing facilities
•Includes QGC’s existing production hub
supplying the domestic market
•92 megalitre water treatment plant,
supplying for beneficial use
•
Key partners: CNOOC; Tokyo Gas; APLNG
South
•
North of Kogan to north of Moonie
•
10 gas processing facilities
•Home of QGC’s first major new development
to come onstream
•
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Key partners: CNOOC; Tokyo Gas; APLNG
our business november 2013
QGC leases and licences
• Authority to Prospect (ATP) – 25 held, 2 applications
• Potential Commercial Area (PCA) – 31 applications
• Petroleum Lease (PL) – 29 held, 16 applications
• Petroleum Pipeline Licence (PPL) – 11 held
• Petroleum Facility Licence (PFL) – 3 held
• Petroleum Survey Licence (PSL) – 1 held
QGC Tenure Manager Vic Suchocki at QGC ‘s Brisbane office.
• Data Acquisition Authority (DAA) – 4 held
Securing tenure from the State
Petroleum tenures are crucial to the resource industry.
They grant access for businesses to explore, develop, build
infrastructure and extract resources on a defined area of land.
In Australia we may own, rent or lease parcels of land, but the
hydrocarbon resources beneath that land are the property of
the State.
In Queensland, the state government owns all gas and liquid
hydrocarbons. The State can grant authority for all the steps
from surveying an area and exploring for underground resources
to extracting the resource, building processing facilities and
granting pipeline licences.
under a Petroleum Lease, but likely to become viable within 15
years. The PCA holder must comply with an evaluation program
to enable future viability.
Petroleum Lease (PL) – This authorises the holder to explore, test
for production, produce petroleum and carry out related work
within the PL area for up to 30 years. An Initial Development
Plan must set out the schedule of work for the first five years.
After that, a Later Development Plan must be lodged for each
subsequent five-year period or when the development plan
changes significantly.
Queensland benefits through royalties, which businesses such
as QGC pay to the government for the resources they extract,
use or sell. Royalties are calculated as a percentage of the value
of the petroleum.
Petroleum Pipeline Licence (PPL) – This allows the holder to
The Queensland Curtis LNG Project will generate about A$1
billion a year in royalties and taxes.
construction or amendment of the licence.
QGC Tenures Manager Vic Suchocki oversees the multitude of
tenures which allow QGC to undertake its activities.
a facility to distil, process, refine, store or transport petroleum.
He has worked as Land Manager for US-based Tri-Star Petroleum
Company, the Queensland Department of Mines and the
Geological Survey of Queensland.
and the holder must either own the land or hold an easement
Vic explains some of the tenures crucial to QGC:
build a pipeline and transport petroleum or water outside
the area of the Petroleum Licence. It stipulates the pipeline
route, sets out conditions and includes a deadline for pipeline
Petroleum Facility Licence (PFL) – With this, the holder can build
The area of the PFL must be big enough to contain the facility,
to construct and operate the plant.
Petroleum Survey Licence (PSL) – This gives the holder access
to land to investigate, survey and identify a pipeline route, a
Authority to Prospect (ATP) – This authorises the holder to
explore for petroleum and assess the viability of production.
An ATP is granted for 12 years, broken into three four-year
periods. At the end of each period, a minimum work program
must have been achieved and a third of the ATP area must be
relinquished.
site for a petroleum facility or access routes for a pipeline or
Potential Commercial Area (PCA) – This applies where a
petroleum discovery is not yet commercially viable to develop
where another party already holds an Authority to Prospect
our business november 2013
petroleum facility.
Data Acquisition Authority (DAA) – This allows acquisition of
geophysical data relevant to an adjoining Authority to Prospect
or Petroleum Lease. A DAA cannot be granted over an area
or Petroleum Lease.
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The QGC Laem Chabang team in Thailand celebrates
the imminent departure of the last module
thai module yard
farewells final shipment
A fabrication yard in Thailand
has fitted millions of bolts
and notched up 10 million
work hours to assemble
and ship 45,000 tonnes of
modular components for
the Queensland Curtis LNG
liquefaction plant.
The last of 80 modules, of
varying size up to about 2500
tonnes, 75m long and 10
storeys high, are expected to
arrive in Gladstone in October.
It’s a remarkable feat that was
achieved with an enviable
safety record in 25 months,
four and a half months ahead
of schedule.
The Laem Chabang Assembly
Yard, on the eastern coast in
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the Gulf of Thailand about
90 minutes from Bangkok,
has performed like clockwork
to assemble and deliver the
steel modules to the QCLNG
site on Curtis Island from
August 2012.
Teams on Curtis Island are
setting these modules into
place, connecting them and
completing the work to turn
them into the world’s first
LNG liquefaction plant fed by
natural gas from coal seams.
had achieved the best safety
C o lin’s team p r o v i d e d
record on BG Group projects,
assurance to QGC that all
with just two lost time
work was in line with the
incidents since mobilising
agreed module-building
in mid-2011.
process. The 21-member team
“We’re a very well-organised
team and we’re very proud of
what we do,” Colin said.
worked closely with Bechtel,
which had up to 3600 workers
building the modules at Laem
Chabang.
“Our work and the methods
adopted here have been very
“We didn’t want to interfere
much streamlined towards
with what the contractor
safety, efficiency and quality.
was doing but we needed to
provide that assurance back
“If you organise your work,
The Thai yard, run by LNG
plant contractor Bechtel and
overseen by QGC, is due to
close in late October.
you lay it out and you plan
QGC Fabrication Manager
Colin Lawton said his team
to QGC,” Colin said.
ahead, you’ll find it’s a lot
“We kept the relationship
safer. We didn’t start any work
very strong and very sound.
until we had all the materials.
There was a conscious effort
We had to get maximum
to make this a success and
efficiency from the team.”
work together.”
our business november 2013
The Thailand task
The safety stats
•
80 modules
•
0.33: total recordable case frequency
•
25 months
•
2 lost time incidents
•
45,000 tonnes
•
14 recordable incidents
•
26 shipments
•
100 hazard inspection tours
•
10,000,000 hours
•
1,096 hazard cards issued
•
113km of pipe
•
71 site safety inspections
•
158km of electrical cable
•
24 monthly clear desk reviews
•
188 pieces of mechanical equipment
•
510 toolbox meetings
•
7,200 pieces of electrical and instrument equipment
•
240,000km driven
•
1,600 pressure tests
•
1,020 vehicle inspections
•
Day and night shifts
•
80 in-vehicle monitoring system checks
•
7 safety forums
“I’ve never been on a job that’s gone as well as this. We’re all very proud
of what we’ve done here, and everyone has enjoyed it.”
“We monitored the
performance of the contractor
but we were very much joined
at the hip, working together
as one team.
“ We lo oke d at all the
work progressively and let
them know (our feedback)
progressively, rather than just
inspecting it on completion.”
Colin said that the team tailormade its own procedures and
quality and safety plans.
“Everyone had to do all of the
Lifesaver training modules
before they were allowed out
of the office,” he said.
“Our team of 21 did over 1000
training modules.”
The team developed and
worked to strategies known
as C S V (C o ns t r u c t i o n ,
Surveillance, Verification)
and OSUI (Optimised Startup Initiative).
CSV was aimed at quality
assurance while OSUI was
designed to ensure that any
problems with the modules
our business november 2013
would be spotted and fixed
in Thailand.
The team determined that
their top risks were driving;
leaving unfinished work for
Curtis Island crews to fix;
delays to load-out; transport
damage; modules being
finished in the wrong order
for plant construction; and
health issues.
“Any manager who doesn’t
know his risks doesn’t know
what’s going on,” Colin said.
“We developed our own list
of driving safety absolutes
tailored specifically to driving
conditions in Thailand.
“We came up with 10 rules,
including some which also
applied to the passenger and,
if a driver broke one, it was
made clear that they would
no longer be able to drive for
QGC.”
Colin said that the job
had been tremendously
rewarding.
“I’ve never been on a job that’s
gone as well as this,” he said.
“We’re all very proud of
what we’ve done here, and
everyone has enjoyed it.
“For me, it’s been a total
pleasure but I’m ready to
come home now.
“We finished early. Curtis
Island has got everything
from us – it’s up to them now.”
QCLNG Midstream Project
Director David Craft thanked
Colin and his team, saying
that the modularisation
program had succeeded due
to the dedication of those at
QGC, BG Group, Bechtel, Laem
Chabang and contractors in
Houston, Brisbane, China,
Turkey and Thailand.
“You can be justifiably proud
of the way we have all worked
together and the excellent
result such teamwork has
achieved,” David said.
with all modules delivered to
site fitting perfectly on their
foundations on Curtis Island –
a real credit to the high level
of quality achieved.
“As the yard closes down it
remains the safest site within
QCLNG.
“The decision to modularise
QCLNG has been proven to
be the right one, and the
outcome a great success.
“This sets up our site on Curtis
Island for further success as
we move into the critical
hook-up phase and on to
commissioning, start-up and
LNG production in 2014.”
A video on fabricating
LNG modules for the
QCLNG terminal at Curtis
Island can be found at
http://goo.gl/vWwxKR
or scan the code below.
“This work has all been
completed ahead of schedule,
without the necessity to issue
one variation proposal and
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Sawmen competing at the Ekka
QGC earns its chops at the Ekka
Perfect Queensland weather
drew huge crowds to the Royal
Queensland Show, better
known as the Ekka, which was
again supported by QGC.
For the third year in succession
QGC sponsored the VIP area
at the woodchop and sawing
competition.
a popular online list “You’re
not from Brisbane until…”. The
caption read: “You appreciate
both the skill and fashion sense
of the wood chop at the Ekka.”
Premier Campbell Newman
announced at this year’s
Ekka that timber used in
The competition has run
for more than a century
and attracts axemen from
throughout Australia and New
Zealand.
woodchopping events at
More than 1400 competitors
took part this year.
The wood for this year’s Ekka
BG Australia Chairman Cath
Tanna and members of the
management team presented
prizes to division winners
throughout the 10-day event.
Our involvement in the wood
chop competition featured
in a picture published by
The Courier-Mail as part of
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Queensland shows would now
be sourced exclusively from
BG Australia Chairman Catherine Tanna with the winners of the Open
375mm Handicap Single Handed Open Saw contest
Queensland native forests.
was mountain ash sourced
from forests in Victoria.
However, Premier Newman
said a 20-year deal had been
finalised to supply log timber
from state-owned native
forests for all 81 agricultural
shows held every year across
the state.
Axeman Jake Dingle, from Mundubbera, gives it his best shot in the
Open 250mm Standing Block Handicap contest
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Washdown facility to
contain weeds
Eidsvold will build a A$700,000
community weed washdown
facility in Eidsvold, funded
by QGC.
landholders, transport and
machiner y contrac tors,
resource sector workers and
the community.
Nor th Burnet t Regional
Council Mayor Don Waugh
and QGC Vice President
Sustainability Brett Smith met
in September to discuss the
A$100,000 project design and
commit a further A$600,000
for building works.
North Burnett requested
the facility, funded through
QGC’s A$150 million social
contribution scheme, as
part of its community weed
management plan.
Council will manage the
washdown facility, to be built
near the Eidsvold saleyards on
Hollywell Road.
It will be the town’s first
such facility, available to
The region is fighting the
spread of weeds including
African lovegrass, parthenium,
rebbervine, prickly acacia
and lantana.
QGC managing Direc tor
Derek Fisher said QGC worked
hard every day to limit the
QGC Vice President Sustainability Brett Smith and North Burnett
Mayor Don Waugh celebrate with a hand shake
impact and maximise the
benefits to communities
of the Queensland Curtis
LNG Project.
“We are mindful that weeds
can threaten food production,
livestock health and local
livelihoods,” Derek said.
“We are commit ted to
improving the washdown
facility network for the
whole community.”
Affordable housing for workers in Western Downs
Key service industry workers will live in new QGC-built
homes made available through a trust established by
Western Downs Regional Council.
Western Downs Housing Trust, formed in 2012 to provide
affordable rental homes, will lease four houses from QGC
at a nominal sum for the next two years.
QGC contributed A$5.7 million to the trust in 2012 and
A$200,000 in 2011 to develop the Western Downs Affordable
Housing Strategy.
rental accommodation for people in key service industries
and this benefits the whole community,” Mr Fisher said.
“We’re working in partnership with the council and others
to minimise any impact our activities are having and it’s
great to see practical outcomes from our combined efforts.”
Western Downs Housing Trust Director Mayor Ray Brown
thanked QGC for donating the use of the homes and
supporting the trust.
Affordable housing company Horizon Housing Company
Limited will manage the properties on behalf of the
housing trust.
To be eligible, prospective tenants must meet key criteria
including working in key service areas unrelated to the
natural gas industry.
They will pay affordable rent determined by the trust, which
will receive all revenue.
QGC Managing Director Derek Fisher said the houses could
accommodate health and emergency services workers,
apprentices and trainees.
“These houses are available immediately as affordable
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Western Downs Mayor Ray Brown, left, with QGC Field Corporate
Services Manager Tony Heidrich
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Support for rural fire service
Peak business
group visits
Curtis Island
Toowoomba and Surat
Basin Enterprise, the
peak business body
for the region, hosted
a “tour to Gladstone”
in September to give
members a taste of
what’s happening
at the other end of
Queensland’s big
gas projects.
The 80 people ranged
from Western Downs
Mayor Ray Brown to
businesses leasing
power plant and selling
truck trailer ties.
From left, QGC Managing Director Derek Fisher, rural fire brigade volunteers, Queensland Fire and Rescue
Service Commissioner Lee Johnson and Queensland Assistant Minister for Emergency Volunteers Ted Malone
announce QGC’s investment at the Royal Queensland Show
QGC is investing in the longterm safety of communities
in the Western Downs with
A$500,000 to expand rural
fire-fighting capacity.
Rural fire brigades will receive
The funds will buy firefighting and communications
equipment for Queensland
Fire and Rescue Service’s
auxiliary and rural branches.
a trailer unit and basic fire
Queensland A ssistant
Minister for Emergenc y
Volunteers Ted Malone
made the announcement at
the Royal Queensland Show
alongside QGC Managing
Director Derek Fisher and
Queensland Fire and Rescue
Ser vice Commissioner
Lee Johnson.
auxiliary crews, including
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a total of A$413,000, including
A$150,000 to improve radio
coverage and a combined
A$263,000 for a water tanker,
equipment to outfit seven
utility vehicles.
More than A$86,000 will be
used to buy equipment for
thermal imaging cameras,
radio batteries and saws.
The investment strengthens
links forged between QGC, its
contractors and Queensland
Fire and Rescue Services
during natural disasters in
the past three years.
Mr Fisher said the
contributions were part of the
company’s A$150 million plan
to mitigate social impacts
of the Queensland Curtis
LNG Project.
“Extreme weather events
in recent years, including
bushfires and widespread
f looding , stretched the
region’s emergency response
capabilities to their limits,’’
he said.
“We can make no greater
investment than to help
ensure the communities
where our business operates
and where our people live
and work are able to be
protected from threats to life
and property.”
Arriving by road and
air, they attended
events where speakers
– including QGC
Production Manager
Adrian Button and Alex
Marshall of Contracts
and Procurement – gave
a rundown on project
progress and operations.
They also took a
cruise along Curtis
Island where the three
LNG plans are being
developed.
Toowoomba Surat Basin
Enterprise Chief Executive
Shane Charles, left, and
Toowoomba Mayor Paul
Antonio enjoy the cruise
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Indigenous health, training
Training
boost
QGC has been congratulated
on its A$500,000 investment
in a partnership with Dalbybased civil construc tion
contractors Ostwald Brothers
to promote indigenous
training and employment.
Federal Member for Maranoa
Bruce Scott, Senator John
Hogg and Western Downs
Mayor Ray Brown each
praised QGC and Ostwald
Brothers for working
with training provider JT
Work force Connec tions
to develop a three-week
intensive course in operating
heavy machinery using safe,
state-of-the-art simulators.
Operators who complete the
course get a ticket in excavator,
grader or scraper operation,
appropriate health and safety
skills for working in mining,
oil and gas plus training in
effective communication.
Mr Scott said it was great to
Plant operator training graduates Joan Brown and George Ruddick
demonstrate the excavator simulator at the Ostwald Brothers facility
see natural gas development
in the Maranoa region,
west of the Darling Downs.
“To see the growth of CSG,
growth that we would never
have imagined 10 years
ago, brings tremendous
opportunities for our region
and the people who live in our
communities,’’ Mr Scott said.
QGC Vice President Sustainability Brett Smith said QGC
was proud to be supporting
a program that increased
employment opportunities
for indigenous people.
“ We’ve seen 12 people
c o mp l e te th e tr aining
with outstanding results,
and more than half of them
are being of fered work
immediately after the course,’’
Mr Smith said.
“Industry benefits when we
have a pool of candidates
trained with the right skills.”
Establishment of the partnership was coordinated
by the QGC Indigenous
Relations team.
From left, QGC’s Ross Wilson, plant operator training graduates Yasmin
Blackman, Joan Brown and George Ruddick and QGC’s Brett Smith
Showcase for emerging talent at Artoriginal
About 150 people enjoyed the
opening of QGC’s Artoriginal
Exhibition and Auc tion,
which showcases Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
ar tis t s from rural and
regional Queensland. More than 45 artists were on
show at the Artoriginal launch,
where speakers included QGC
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Managing Director Derek
Fisher, and David Kempton,
Queensland’s A ssistant
Minister for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Affairs. The emcee was Jim
Petrich, AO, who has close
t i e s t o Q u e e n s l a n d ’s
Indigenous communities.
All of the artwork was for
sale and a proportion of
the proceeds goes to the
Safe Sista program, which
provides suppor t to
encourage indigenous girls
to finish school.
Many artists were present for
the show and had a chance to
talk with the viewing public
about their work.
QGC Managing Director Derek
Fisher at the exhibition
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benefit from QGC investment
Health
services
QGC and the State Government
have launched a A$475,000
mobile rural health clinic for
indigenous Queenslanders.
In par tnership with the
Queensland Aboriginal and
Islander Health Council (QAIHC),
QGC has fitted out a caravan
and funded the first two
years of clinical services by
doctors, nurses and indigenous
health workers.
From its Gladstone base, the
clinic will travel three designated
routes to visit communities west
to Emerald and south to Roma
and Miles.
Launching the service in
Gladstone, Premier Campbell
Newman said there was a
pressing need to address
indigenous health issues.
“The best way to do that is to
make health professionals
mobile and take them to needy
communities,” he said.
“QGC is fulfilling its social
responsibility and is partnering
with QAIHC to improve health
services in communities hosting
and supporting gas industry
development.”
The Premier said it was
“balderdash, absolute rubbish”
for anti-CSG campaigners to
claim that natural CSG and
LNG brought no benefits to
communities.
“This is an example today,”
he said.
QGC Deputy Managing Director
and Queensland Curtis LNG
Project Director Mitch Ingram said
the clinic was part of more
than A$1.6 million being
invested by QGC in outreach
medical services in central
and southern Queensland.
A second clinic supported by QGC,
run by not-for-profit, indigenousowned and operated Murri
Health Group, has also recently
begun services in the southern
Western Downs.
“We’re delighted that the
Premier has launched this clinic,
which will help to improve
indigenous and rural health
in line with commitments
made in our A$150 million Social
Impact Management Plan,’’
Mr Ingram said.
“Importantly, this service is a
demonstration of the outcomes
QGC Deputy Managing Director Mitch Ingram has his blood pressure
checked by trained nurse Lisa Newman while her husband, Premier
Campbell Newman, watches on
that are possible when companies
work with indigenous peoples
and organisations.”
The council represents 26
community-controlled health
services across the state.
The health clinic will be staffed
by one of these services: Central
Queensland Aboriginal and
Islander Community Controlled
Health Organisation, the peak
body for indigenous health
in Cen tr al Q u e enslan d
and Wide Bay.
Selywn Button, chief executive
of the council, said he looked
forward to seeing people benefit
from the service.
“A solid partnership has now
been established which will
ensure that Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people
across central Queensland, North
Burnett and surrounding areas
are able to access vital goodquality, comprehensive primary
health care services.”
Artist Claudia Moodoonuthi and artworks at the opening of QGC’s Artoriginal
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Run by river for health and wellbeing
Spring began perfectly for
more than 4000 people –
including hundreds of QGCsponsored participants –
who took part in the Bridge
to Brisbane event on Sunday
1 September.
Thousands lined up to run,
walk or push prams in the five
and 10-kilometre 2013 Sunday
Mail Suncorp Bank Bridge to
Brisbane events, raising money
for their charity of choice.
Supporters lined the streets to
cheer on contestants.
QGC sponsored staff and
their immediate families
to par ticipate as par t
o f Q G C ’s H e a l t h a n d
Wellbeing Program.
We had one of the largest
corp orate teams, wi th
more than 400 registered
participants, who enjoyed
breakfast at the QGC tent.
Thank you to all QGC team
members and their families
who rose for an early start on
Father’s Day.
Thank you to all QGC team members and their families who arose for the early start on Father’s Day
Smith and sons
Greg, Daniel and Ben Smith have brought a family atmosphere
to a QGC contractor’s carpentry crew at Woleebee Creek,
our northern development hub.
The “Smith and sons” team are working together as formwork
carpenters and concrete finishers at the Northern Water
Treatment Plant, being built by a consortium of GE Betz and
Laing O’Rourke Construction.
Daniel was first to land a job on the project, with his dad
Greg and brother Ben quick to follow.
Construction is a passion for the Smiths. Greg has been
building for 45 years and Daniel has completed a building
diploma. All three live in the Mudgeeraba region and prefer
working in the wide open country of Woleebee Creek to
city-based projects.
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Daniel, Greg and Ben Smith at work on the Northern Water Treatment
Plant at Woleebee Creek.
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QGC teams
finalists in
global awards
•
Two teams with QGC members are finalists in the 2013 BG
Group Chief Executive Innovation Awards.
winners at an awards ceremony at London Science Museum
The Chief Executive Innovation Awards celebrate fresh
thinking and new business practices which lie at the heart
of BG Group’s success.
“Innovation has a key role to play in the future of BG Group,
The teams represent two of nine finalists from nearly 100
entries received by the awards judging panel.
Enhanced Working Practice – Daniel de Verteuil,
Stephen Howell, Sam Guiton, Lindsey Campbell, Damian
Ryan, Jerome Arunakumaren and Rhodri Vaughan with an
entry called Modelling the Impact of QGC’s Natural Gas from
Coal Seams Production on the Surat Basin’s Groundwater.
BG Group Chief Executive Chris Finlayson will announce the
in late October.
enabling the delivery of world-class projects in challenging
environments, finding solutions to every-day problems and
contributing to the future growth of our company,” Mr
Finlayson said.
QGC is shortlisted in the following categories:
•
Integrated Technology Application – Richard
Wheeler, Chris Spilsbury and Phil Redding with an entry
called Maximising QCLNG Capacity with Dual Pressure
Operating Modes.
Golden Hard Hat winners
QGC staff and contractors have been named as winners
in the fifth round of BG Group’s Gold Hard Hat awards.
The awards reflect a culture of personal accountability
and excellence, with recipients displaying extraordinary
safety commitment well over and above the norm.
The winners were:
•
Land access negotiator Peter Barr was nominated for
intervening when he observed an excavator working
in close proximity to a powerline and he could not
see any “spotter” in the area. A potential tragedy was
avoided because Peter had the courage to intervene.
•
Start Up Coordinator Andy Thompson was nominated
for his selfless and determined contribution in closing
hazard and operability study (HAZOP) actions across
Operations and sharing his safety knowledge as an
experienced operator.
•
MCJV supervisor Phil Bennett and his team were
nominated for consistency in safety attitudes,
arrangements and site conditions. This included
personal protective equipment compliance and
consistently applying safety at each work location.
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“The awards celebrate problem-solving skills and creativity
demonstrated across the business, from development and
implementation of new technologies to how we work with
our partners to address common issues.”
Water pipeline
recognised as
a top project
SunWater’s Kenya to Chinchilla
Weir pipeline – developed to
receive water from QGC’s
Kenya Water Treatment
Plant – has been recognised in
the Australian Institute
of Projec t Management
Achievement Awards.
and promote outstanding
achievements
in
project management.
QGC’s Nor th Area Asset
Manager Lisa Cecchi
and Lead Approvals and
Permits Advisor Tyson Croll
attended the event at which
the pipeline project was
awarded top honours in the
Regional category of the
Queensland awards.
L i s a a n d Ty s o n w e r e
instrumental in working to
secure the first large-scale
Beneficial Use Approval for
treated water from coal
seams to enter a watercourse.
The project will progress
to the national awards,
which recognise, honour
Before Lisa joined QGC, she
was SunWater’s projec t
manager for the pipeline,
which was built on time and
under budget.
The pipeline star ted
transporting treated water
from the Kenya plant to
Chinchilla Weir, supplying
farmers along the pipeline
and Condamine River, in July.
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The Spatial Services team provide more than 10,000 specialist map reports a year
Spatial science just like magic
Whether you grew up with
the Brisbane Refidex, the
London A-Z or any other dogeared street directory, it’s
worth remembering the old
volumes – and recognising
how quickly technology has
changed.
The old map books which
threatened to spark front-seat
fireworks on driving holidays
have largely been replaced by
GPS and the magic of spatial
science.
Spatial data and geographic
information systems (GIS)
have revolutionised industries
su c h as c o n s t r u c t i o n ,
infrastructure development,
mining and oil and gas.
With more than 30,000 square
kilometres of tenements
across the Bowen and Surat
Basins, QGC recognises
that fast, accurate access to
information is crucial to our
safety and business success.
The 35-member Spatial
Services team pulls together
information from a number
of internal and public sources.
They organise the data into a
visual form, similar to Google
Maps, through a system called
MapMagic.
QGC users can overlay
different types of information
on to various base maps.
A wide range of information
involving environmental
data, tenures, emergency
services facilities, cadastral,
administrative and locality
b oundarie s, roads and
place names are sourced
from government. QGC
also commissions its own
specialist information.
Mu ch o f th e e x ter nal
information must be validated
by “ground truthing” to ensure
absolute accuracy.
This includes environmental
and cultural heritage surveys
to identify sensitive and
significant sites.
Feedback from landholders
is also captured and added
to the GIS system, helping us
to plan appropriate sites for
future infrastructure.
Operational data is added,
including all gas infrastructure
locations such as pilot,
test and operational wells,
pipelines and other facilities.
This helps with planning.
Buried infrastructure data
is also passed on to Dial
Before You Dig to reduce
underground service strikes
and help landholders and
construction companies carry
out digging work safely.
Near real-time information
on locations of QGC vehicles,
QGC radios, drilling rigs,
bushfires and river levels are
also displayed in MapMagic
and have already helped
with emergency response to
events such as bushfires.
Spatial Services Manager
Mark Howman has led the
team for two and a half years,
driven by the challenge of
charting a project of the scale
and significance of QCLNG.
“My team strives to deliver
and drive business value
through the effective use
of spatial technologies and
expertise,” Mark said.
“I am delighted to be a part
of the QCLNG project and am
privileged to lead the Spatial
Services team to deliver
quality outcomes for the
business.”
Mark Howman leads QGC’s Spatial Services team
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Mark and his team also
provide more than 10,000
specialist map reports a year
for internal clients.
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Connect with QGC
Connecting with QGC has never been easier. Your feedback and ideas are always welcome and help us
to plan, develop and operate our projects, minimise impacts and maximise benefits of our activities.*
Telephone
1800 030 443 - our 24-hour toll-free community information line
In person
Speak to a QGC team member at our community information centres.
By post
Chinchilla
Gladstone
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Woolworths Complex
18 – 20 Bell Street
72 Goondoon Street
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PO Box 266
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Email
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Community
Committees
Our Community Committees allow us to reach out, inform and
collaborate with local people who represent regions in which we work.
Each committee looks after a separate area: throughout the
Surat Basin, along our pipeline network, and in and around
our liquefied natural gas facility near Gladstone.
Members are drawn from a cross-section of society,
including local government, education, health, community
services, and business and recreation sectors.
Please visit the committee pages on our website for further information,
meeting dates, contact details and to download meeting minutes.
www.qgc.com.au/community/community-committees.aspx
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Tel: (07) 3024 9000
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available at www.qgc.com.au.
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