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About <strong>QGC</strong><br />

<strong>QGC</strong> is a leading Australian coal seam<br />

gas explorer and producer focused on<br />

developing world-class reserves for<br />

domestic and international supply.<br />

More than 4000 staff and contractors<br />

work for us in central and southern<br />

Queensland.<br />

Our priority development is QCLNG<br />

– one of Australia’s biggest capital<br />

infrastructure projects and the world’s<br />

first liquefied natural gas project<br />

based on gas from coal seams.<br />

The business will increase the number of its employees by almost 100 as<br />

a result of the <strong>QGC</strong> contract, which began in 2011.<br />

These people operate the rigs and provide services in accommodation,<br />

catering, construction, training and administration.<br />

<strong>Easternwell</strong> estimates that $60 million will be spent with suppliers<br />

during the next three years and that Queensland companies will attract<br />

a significant amount of the work.<br />

Five of the top 10 suppliers to <strong>Easternwell</strong> – who provide food, fuel,<br />

transportation, equipment and ancillary services – are based in the<br />

greater Toowoomba region.<br />

<strong>Easternwell</strong>, supported by Industry Capability Network (ICN)<br />

Queensland, has been identifying and prequalifying Australian<br />

companies to ensure a reliable pool of local suppliers is available.<br />

By 2014 <strong>QGC</strong>’s parent company, BG Group, will have invested US$15<br />

billion in constructing the QCLNG Project.<br />

<strong>QGC</strong> expects that about half of the project’s total capital outlay until<br />

that date will be spent with Queensland and Australian firms and for<br />

about 80 per cent of operating expenditure over the next 20 years to be<br />

spent locally.<br />

<strong>QGC</strong> has hundreds of contracts for services and equipment and more<br />

than 1500 businesses have registered their interest in being involved in<br />

QCLNG.<br />

Many are small family businesses that are growing and prospering.<br />

QCLNG involves significantly<br />

expanding <strong>QGC</strong>’s operations in<br />

the Surat Basin and transporting<br />

the gas via a 540km underground<br />

pipeline network to Curtis Island, off<br />

Gladstone, where it will be cooled to a<br />

liquid for transport by ship.<br />

<strong>QGC</strong> also supplies about 20 per cent<br />

of Queensland’s gas demand through<br />

our existing domestic gas business.<br />

Our commitments<br />

We seek to minimise the effects of our<br />

operations on landholders and make a<br />

positive contribution to the protection<br />

of the environment.<br />

We run our business in accordance<br />

with government regulations, industry<br />

standards and the access rules that we<br />

agree with landholders.<br />

Our staff, contractors and consultants<br />

follow <strong>QGC</strong>’s Code of Conduct,<br />

outlined in our Information for<br />

Landholders booklet available via our<br />

website: www.qgc.com.au<br />

Contact details<br />

Please contact <strong>QGC</strong> for more information.<br />

1800 030 443 (toll-free)<br />

email: community@qgc.com.au<br />

<strong>QGC</strong> Pty Limited<br />

275 George St<br />

Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia

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