Jacobs Engineering Group won a contract from QGC, part of BG Group. QGC is one of the major proponents in the rapidly developing coal seam gas (CSG) to liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in Australia.
The services are being provided from Jacobs’ Brisbane, Australia and Denver, Colo., U.S. offices, enabling QGC to leverage the substantial experience that Jacobs has gained in the U.S. CSG market.
Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs will perform concept study and pre-FEED activities to support further development of the upstream portion of the project. Jacobs’ scope of work includes the production well pads that produce and separate gas and water; the gathering systems that transport the produced fluids; and the field compressor stations that form part of the transport system carrying the produced gas to the LNG production facilities.
These facilities are designed to connect into the existing infrastructure that transports the CSG to QGC’s LNG plant located on Curtis Island, near Gladstone in Queensland. The Queensland Curtis LNG project is anticipated to be the world’s first project to convert CSG into LNG, and to provide cleaner hydrocarbon energy for export markets from 2014. The value of the contract was not disclosed.
