Shire of Roebourne Local Planning Strategy

Shire of Roebourne Local Planning StrategyTechnical Report A1: Economic Development StrategyAppendix 5:GorgonThe Gorgon gas project involves the development of the Greater Gorgon gas fields, subsea gas-gatheringinfrastructure, and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Barrow Island. The project also includes adomestic gas component. It is currently under construction and once completed, will become Australia'sfourth LNG export development.LNG sales agreements have been reached between the joint venturers and customers in China, India,Japan and South Korea.Chevron Australia has executed Sale and Purchase Agreements (SPAs) with Osaka Gas (1.375Mtpafor 25 years and 1.25 percent equity in the Gorgon Project), Tokyo Gas (1.1Mtpa for 25 years and 1percent equity), Chubu Electric Power (1.44Mtpa for 25 years and 0.417 percent equity in the GorgonProject) and GS Caltex of South Korea (0.5Mtpa for 20 years from Gorgon and Chevron system gas).Chevron Australia also has Heads of Agreements with Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) (1.5Mtpa for 15years); Nippon Oil Corporation (0.3 Mtpa for 15 years) and Kyushu Electric (0.3 Mtpa for 15 years).Shell has entered into long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements with PetroChina InternationalCompany Limited and BP Singapore Pte. Limited and also has secured capacity at LNG receivingterminals including the terminals at Energia Costa Azul in Baja California, Mexico and Hazira in Gujarat,India.An Australian subsidiary of ExxonMobil has signed long-term sales and purchase agreements withPetronet LNG Limited of India and PetroChina International Company Limited for the supply of LNG fromthe Gorgon Project. The agreement with Petronet LNG is for the supply of approximately 1.5 Mtpa ofLNG over a 20-year term while the agreement with PetroChina is for the supply of approximately 2.25Mtpa over a 20-year term. Together, these two sales and purchase agreements commit the ExxonMobilsubsidiary's share of LNG from the 15 Mtpa Gorgon LNG Project.Under the provisions of the Barrow Island Act (2003), the joint venturers are required to reserve 2000petajoules of gas for delivery into the domestic market. The Gorgon Joint Venture announced plans toestablish a domestic gas project, including plans for progressive expansion to enable delivery of 300terajoules of gas per day into the domestic transmission system. Chevron have indicated that deliveriesof Gorgon domestic gas will commence around the time of start-up of the third LNG train.76