BG Group has launched its second Australian LNG train after hitting a 1.5 million tonnes milestone.
BG confirmed it has started to load its first LNG onto a second production train at the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) facility in Australia.
The site, which has 32,000 tonnes of steel, 139,000 cubic metres of concrete, 1950 kilometres of electrical cable and 200 kilometres of piping, is on track to produce enough LNG to load 10 vessels per month combined, exporting around eight million tonnes per year.
To date the facility has shipped 27 separate cargoes.
BG chief executive Helge Lund said: “The start-up of QCLNG’s second LNG train is another important operational milestone delivered in line with our plan. The completion of our upstream infrastructure and the two LNG trains are achievements of which BG Group, particularly our team in Australia, can be proud. We have already shipped more than 1.5 million tonnes of LNG from Queensland, and Train 2 will add significant further volumes and flexibility to our LNG shipping and marketing portfolio.”