At the North West Shelf Venture – Australia’s largest resources development based in the Pilbara region of Western Australia – annual production of LNG, domestic gas and condensate continues to rise.

 

In 2008, LNG production from the North West Shelf’s onshore gas processing facility at Karratha, 1500km north-west of Perth, will increase to 16.3 million tonnes a year with the start-up of a fifth, 4.4 million tonne-a-year LNG production train.

 

The $25 billion North West Shelf project delivered its first LNG cargoes to Japan in 1989, and it now ships more than 200 cargoes a year to customers around the world including Japan, China, and South Korea.

 

The North West Shelf Venture, which has established an international reputation as a reliable supplier of clean energy, has produced more than 1000 cargoes of condensate, or light crude oil. Condensate is sold on the international energy market and transported to customers around the world.

 

After almost 25 years of pipeline gas production, the venture remains Western Australia’s largest single producer of domestic gas providing about 65 per cent of total State production. Pipeline gas is processed at its Karratha facility, and transported to customers in southern Western Australia via a 1500km pipeline.

 

The North West Shelf Venture is underpinned by huge gas reserves, with only 11 Tcf of total reserves of 33 Tcf produced to date.