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Santos, QGC boost cooperation on Curtis Island

Santos and QGC’s agreement to link their CBM-to-LNG projects so they can share gas supplies highlights efforts to enhance cooperation as the three Curtis Island projects enter the last stretch of development Santos and QGC’s agreement to link their CBM-to-LNG projects so they can share gas supplies highlights efforts to enhance cooperation as the three Curtis Island projects enter the last stretch of development.
By Sara Stefanini 4 July 2013 0 2689
Australian east coast CBM-to-LNG projects being developed at Gladstone. (Interfax)

In a show of enhancing cooperation, Santos and BG Group subsidiary QGC have agreed to connect their CBM-to-LNG projects by pipeline, allowing them to share gas supplies during the ramp ups, outages and peak periods.

Under the agreement signed on Thursday, Santos and QGC will link their projects in central Queensland, where they are both producing CBM; and on Curtis Island, where the plants are under construction. This, they said, will improve the flexibility and efficiency for both Santos’s Gladstone LNG (GLNG) and BG’s Queensland Curtis...