Gas on the North West Shelf

While Western Australia already relies heavily on the North West Shelf (NWS) for its gas needs through gas produced from the North West Shelf Venture (NWSV), a number of further gas developments in the
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The Cooper Basin – Australia’s central gas hub

Located on the Queensland and South Australian border, the basin is centrally located to supply natural gas via pipelines to Adelaide, Sydney and regional areas, ethane to Botany Bay, and oil, condensate
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In contact with underground gas storage

Contact Energy is currently constructing a new $NZ250 million ($A198 million) gas-fired peaking power station in Stratford, to be located next to the company’s existing Taranaki combined-cycle power
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Addressing the future of NZ gas

Gas production in New Zealand began in 1970 with the development of the Kapuni Gas Field, located in the Taranaki region of the country’s North Island. Since then, approximately 5,686 billion cubic
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New Zealand – the land of the long white gas

Gas accounts for approximately 20 per cent of New Zealand’s primary energy supply and nine per cent of total consumer energy demand in the nation’s residential and commercial sectors, according
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Browsing gas fields

The Browse Basin is home to gas fields currently being explored by ConocoPhillips and Karoon Gas, Nexus Energy, Inpex, Shell and Woodside Petroleum. Gas Today looks at the fields currently being explored
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A hub of excitement in the Kimberley

The Western Australian Government, Woodside Petroleum and Kimberley Land Council (KLC) have signed a broad agreement to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) hub at James Price Point, located approximately
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40 years of gas from Bass Strait

Bass Strait gas was first piped to homes and businesses in Melbourne four decades ago from Esso’s processing plant at Longford. The first home was connected to natural gas on 14 April 1969, making
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Papuan possibilities

In April 2008, Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare announced “The commercialisation of gas resources of our country will be the number one priority of this government.”? Since
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Developing the Top End’s gas industry

Whereas development in the Northern Territory and Timor Sea region had previously focussed on oil or wet gas, increasing liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices have propelled gas exploration in what had been
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