Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas

Project overview*

EIS status	Recommended project proceed subject to conditions and recommendations
Description	Integrated liquefied natural gas project with an initial capacity of 3-4 million tonnes per annum, increasing to approximately 10 mtpa.
Proponent	Santos Ltd and Petronas
Location/s	Gas fields: Bowen and Surat basins, in south-east Queensland Pipeline: from gas fields to Gladstone Liquefaction and export facility: Curtis Island, Gladstone. Map
Local government/s	Gladstone Regional Council
Key features	development of coal seam gas fields around Roma, Emerald, Injune and Taroom 435-kilometre gas transmission pipeline liquefaction and export facility associated infrastructure, including marine facilities port dredging

Key environmental impact statement (EIS) documents

• Addendum to Coordinator-General's report on EIS (PDF, 86 kB), June 2010
• Coordinator-General's report on EIS (PDF, 1.5 MB), May 2010
• Supplementary EIS, November 2009. Also available at State Library of Queensland (record number: 1200906)
• Environmental impact statement, March 2009.
• EIS - Executive summary (PDF 1.2 MB)
• Complete EIS. Also available at State Library of Queensland (record number: 1152729)
• Terms of reference for EIS (PDF, 330 KB), August 2008
• Initial advice statement (PDF, 997 KB), July 2007

EIS process

Read more about the EIS process.

Australian Government approval

Federal environment minister's approval of 'controlled action', subject to conditions:

• Natural gas liquefaction park - EPBC 2008/4057
• Marine facilities - EPBC 2008/4058
• Coal seam gas fields - EPBC 2008/4059
• Gas pipeline and alternative pipeline - EPBC 2008/4096.

Further information

For more information about the project, visit the Santos GLNG Project website.

* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.