Chevron Australia, a subsidiary of Chevron, has announced first gas from the North West Shelf Venture's Train-5 onshore liquefied natural gas facility at the Karratha gas plant in Western Australia.
The new $2.1 billion Train-5 production facility is now online and is expected to increase the joint venture’s export capacity by up to 4.4 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) annually to 16.3 million tons.
The company said that the Train-5 expansion includes a fifth LNG processing train, a jetty extension and second LNG loading berth, two additional power generation units, a third LPG fractionation unit, a new fuel gas compressor, an acid gas removal unit and a third boil-off gas compressor.
Roy Krzywosinski, managing director of Chevron Australia, said: Chevron continues to make significant multi-million dollar investments to expand our Australian operations. We are proud to be a part of the North West Shelf Venture that has played an important role in providing clean and reliable energy to Western Australia and the Asia Pacific market for 20 years.