New Pluto inlet station commissioned

The new Pluto inlet station connecting the Woodside Petroleum Ltd.-operated Pluto LNG project on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha in Western Australia to the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas trunk line has been successfully commissioned by the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG).

Woodside had previously contracted AGIG to undertake a front-end engineering and design study to convert an existing outlet meter station to the new inlet facility along with the required increase in gas compression.

AGIG said the completed facility now has capacity to supply as much as 25 terajoules/day of gas from Pluto to Western Australia to add to the flow through the state’s main trunk line from the northwest offshore fields that has been in operation since 1984.

AGIG is a combine, formed in 2017, of Australian Gas Networks, Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline, and Multinet Gas Networks.