Chevron Australia has shipped its first cargo of LNG from the Wheatstone natural gas project in Western Australia.
The cargo will be delivered to Japanese buyer JERA—a joint venture of Chubu Electric Power and Tokyo Electric Power—one of the project’s foundation customers.
Wheatstone development began in 2009. The project was originally slated for a yearend-2016 on-stream date, later amended to mid-2017 and then again to August 2017. Cost overruns have totalled $5 billion.
A second LNG train at the facility is expected to come on line in about 6-8 months. At full capacity to two-train project will produce 8.9 million tonnes/year of LNG.
The associated domestic gas plant has capacity to produce 200 terajoules/day of gas for Western Australia.