| Petrochemical, oil or gas or industrial project |
Estimated project value |
Stage |
Location |
| Alinta gas pipeline: Compression and looping for the existing Qld Gas Pipeline to provide additional capacity to meet the gas needs of Rio Tinto Aluminium’s Yarwun expansion for gas delivery 2010. |
112 |
Detailed Engineering |
Fitzroy |
| Australian Seamless Tube Project (Boulder Steel) (inc. pig iron plant) New project, awaiting development approval |
536 |
Finance pending |
Fitzroy |
| Berwyndale to Wallumbilla gas pipeline: operational by Jan 2009 |
70 |
Under Study |
Darling Downs |
| Biodiesel Plant: 60 million litres of clean green fuel per year in Stage 1, and increase to 180 million litres once Stage 3 is completed. |
50 |
Under Study |
Mackay |
| Braemar 2 Gas Pipeline Project: completion February 2009 |
60 |
Construction |
Darling Downs |
| Cement Australia: new cement mill for completion early 2009 |
50.6 |
Construction |
Fitzroy |
| Furfural Plant - Proserpine Co-op Sugar Mill: Conversion of bagasse to manufacture 5000 tonnes per annum of Furfural used in industrial solvent applications. |
30 |
Construction |
Mackay |
| Gladstone LNG Project (Fisherman’s Landing): A natural gas liquefaction plant and associated infrastructure and facilities |
400 |
Under Study |
Fitzroy |
| Gladstone LNG (Santos): LNG liquefaction and export facility development (comprising LNG facility and associated infrastructure including bridge and access road) on Curtis Island, near Gladstone. |
7700 |
At EIS stage |
Fitzroy |
| Hunter Gas Pipeline Project: Approximately 200 km of the pipeline (total length 850 km) is within Queensland. A major driver of the proposal is to provide the missing link in the east Australian network and provide additional security of gas supply to Sydney and Newcastle. |
700 |
Under Study |
Downs-South West |
| Lacerta Coal Seam Gas Project |
67 |
Under Study |
Darling Downs |
| Mackay Sugar Cogeneration: New bagasse-fired, 150 tonnes per hour boiler, and 36-MW turbo-alternator exporting approximately 27 MW into the Mackay grid. Expected start 2009 for commissioning 2011. |
110 |
Under Study |
Mackay |
| Meandu Mine Void Project: Disposal of ash products |
36.6 |
Under Study |
Wide Bay-Burnett |
| Moranbah Ammonium Nitrate Plant |
570 |
Construction |
Mackay |
| Moranbah to Gladstone Gas Pipeline Project (Central Qld Gas Pipeline): The 440 km long high-pressure gas pipeline will be built, owned and operated by Enertrade, and is intended to provide a strategic link for coal seam gas supply between the Northern Bowen Basin and Gladstone. The pipeline will also provide interconnection with the Queensland gas pipeline network, giving north Bowen Basin gas access to additional Queensland markets. Millenium |
400 |
Under Study |
Mackay-Fitzroy Qld |
| New Acland Coal to Liquids Project: Trial of Low temperature coal conversion using US catalysts treating 100,000 tonnes coal per year. |
65 |
Basic Engineering |
Darling Downs |
| Orica Australia: caustic storage tank completion Feb 2009 |
20 |
Construction |
Fitzroy |
| Pinkenba Ethanol Bio-Refinery: dry milling ethanol bio-refinery on an existing industrial site in Brisbane. At full production, the bio-refinery will process up to approximately 400,000 t/a of grain feedstock to produce approximately 160 ML of fuel grade ethanol, fertiliser, aqueous ammonia and electricity. |
150 |
Basic Engineering |
SE Queensland |
| Project Iron Boomerang: Building a 3000 km rail link from the Western Australia Pilbara iron-ore region to the Queensland Bowen Basin coalfields, which will supply feedstock to smelter parks at each end of the rail line. |
12400 |
Feasibility |
Mackay-North West |
| Queensland Curtis LNG Project (BG-QGC): the expansion of QGC’s coal seam gas (CSG) operations in the Surat Basin to provide gas for two of the three LNG trains and gas for domestic markets; the development, construction and operation of a main gas pipeline of approximately 380 km, capable of supplying gas for three LNG trains, together with a network of gas connection pipelines, to link the QGC gas fields and other nearby CSG resources to the LNG plant; the development, construction and operation of an LNG processing plant and export facility, to be located in the Gladstone area, with an ultimate capacity of up to 12 mtpa. Nominally this will comprise three LNG trains, each of 3 to 4 mtpa production capacity. |
8000 |
At EIS stage |
Fitzroy |
| Queensland Gas Pipeline Expansion |
112 |
Committed |
Fitzroy |
| Sun LNG Plant (Sunshine Gas): 500,000 tonne-a-year LNG plant |
450 |
At EIS stage |
Fitzroy |
| Sunstate Gas to Liquids Project: World scale project to convert coal seam methane to ultra clean diesel to produce 17,000 barrel per day or six million barrels per year of refined product to cost approximately (AUD) $1.5 billion Expected to begin construction in 2010 and completion 2015 |
1500 |
Feasibility |
Darling Downs |
| Transpacific Industries Group: regional waste management facility |
20+ |
|
Fitzroy |
| Walloon Coal Seam gas Project: Development of Origin Energy’s Walloon coal seam gas fields in order to supply Rio Tinto Alluminium Yarwun refinery |
260 |
Basic Engineering |
Fitzroy |
| Wallumbilla–Darling Downs Power Station Gas Pipeline: 200km pipeline |
90 |
Under Study |
Darling Downs |
back