Easternwell - QGC

CASE STUDY
Easternwell
A $95 million contract awarded by QGC to Toowoomba-based
well construction company Easternwell demonstrates the flow-on
economic and social benefits from the coal seam gas industry.
Easternwell expects to employ more people; those people will be
trained; and local goods and services providers will receive more work.
The multi-year contract – for provision of well servicing and
completion activities – represents QGC’s commitment to using
capable local companies where they are competitive on safety, cost,
quality and timeliness, and have the capacity.
QGC will benefit from safer and quieter rigs that operate with a
minimal environmental footprint.
Easternwell Energy chief executive Warren Willmington says 80 per
cent of each of the rigs, which represent the latest technology, is
manufactured and assembled in Australia.
Quick facts
• Toowoomba-based
Easternwell QGC has a $95
million drilling contract with
QGC
• The contract will create more
than 80 new direct jobs, most
on the Darling Downs
• Easternwell, established 35
years ago, has developed into a
‘one stop shop’ for large oil and
gas exploration companies
“Most of the new technologies are based on reducing the amount of
man handling and manual labour the rig operators need to do,” Mr
Willmington says.
Easternwell has also developed a rig training facility and program that
ensures workers are competent and familiar with the equipment and
health and safety requirements.

About QGC
QGC is a leading Australian coal seam
gas explorer and producer focused on
developing world-class reserves for
domestic and international supply.
More than 4000 staff and contractors
work for us in central and southern
Queensland.
Our priority development is QCLNG
– one of Australia’s biggest capital
infrastructure projects and the world’s
first liquefied natural gas project
based on gas from coal seams.
The business will increase the number of its employees by almost 100 as
a result of the QGC contract, which began in 2011.
These people operate the rigs and provide services in accommodation,
catering, construction, training and administration.
Easternwell estimates that $60 million will be spent with suppliers
during the next three years and that Queensland companies will attract
a significant amount of the work.
Five of the top 10 suppliers to Easternwell – who provide food, fuel,
transportation, equipment and ancillary services – are based in the
greater Toowoomba region.
Easternwell, supported by Industry Capability Network (ICN)
Queensland, has been identifying and prequalifying Australian
companies to ensure a reliable pool of local suppliers is available.
By 2014 QGC’s parent company, BG Group, will have invested US$15
billion in constructing the QCLNG Project.
QGC expects that about half of the project’s total capital outlay until
that date will be spent with Queensland and Australian firms and for
about 80 per cent of operating expenditure over the next 20 years to be
spent locally.
QGC has hundreds of contracts for services and equipment and more
than 1500 businesses have registered their interest in being involved in
QCLNG.
Many are small family businesses that are growing and prospering.
QCLNG involves significantly
expanding QGC’s operations in
the Surat Basin and transporting
the gas via a 540km underground
pipeline network to Curtis Island, off
Gladstone, where it will be cooled to a
liquid for transport by ship.
QGC also supplies about 20 per cent
of Queensland’s gas demand through
our existing domestic gas business.
Our commitments
We seek to minimise the effects of our
operations on landholders and make a
positive contribution to the protection
of the environment.
We run our business in accordance
with government regulations, industry
standards and the access rules that we
agree with landholders.
Our staff, contractors and consultants
follow QGC’s Code of Conduct,
outlined in our Information for
Landholders booklet available via our
website: www.qgc.com.au
Contact details
Please contact QGC for more information.
1800 030 443 (toll-free)
email: community@qgc.com.au
QGC Pty Limited
275 George St
Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia