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So how exactly did LTG find out about this before anyone else? Have they a mole on the inside at the NTG?
thanks anyway WW
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This prefeasibility study for the Tennant Creek to Darwin Natural Gas Pipeline Corridor supports the Northern Territory Governments Vision to turn the Territory into a world-class gas production, manufacturing and services hub by 2030, through its five point plan to:
Expand the world-scale Darwin LNG export hub
Grow the Northern Territory's service and supply industry
Establish gas-based processing and manufacturing
Grow local research, innovation and training capacity
Contribute to Australia's energy security
For many, the proposed pipeline is the missing piece of the puzzle needed for the establishment of an onshore gas industry in the NT.
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Follow Up Article Concerning Pipeline Corridor:
April 1 2020 - 10:03AM
Pipeline would 'fulfil Territory's gas vision' - Govt says
The NT Government says the development of a pipeline to transport gas from the Beetaloo Basin to Darwin is critical "to fulfil the Territory's gas vision".
Many people were surprised yesterday to learn the Government had taken the first steps to plot a route for a gas pipeline from Tennant Creek to Darwin.
According to maps provided in tender documents, the pipeline is expected to closely follow the path of the Stuart Highway through Katherine and Pine Creek.
Tenders for the work close today.
The government has responded to questions from the Katherine Times over the apparent secrecy surrounding the plans.
Details of the tender were uncovered by the Lock the Gate Alliance.
"There have been no announcements made about forthcoming gas pipeline projects in the Northern Territory," a spokeswoman for the NT Trade, Business and Innovation Department said, in explaining why the pipeline plan had caught many by surprise.
The spokeswoman said the NT Government had not yet committed direct funding for any new pipeline projects.
Costings for this pre-feasibility study for a pipeline corridor also remain in house.
"The tenders for the prefeasibility study has been advertised as Tier 3 procurement, while the project is still in the tendering phase information on tender values remain commercial in confidence."
A Tier 3 procurement ranges from $100,000 to $500,000.
This proposed pipeline would link up with the $800 million gas pipeline between Tennant Creek and Mount Isa which was opened by Jemena in 2018.
The big energy companies like Origin Energy and Santos have rushed to the Beetaloo Basin, near Daly Waters, to continue deep drilling of shale gas and confirm their expectations of a large resource.
There is a gas pipeline, the 330km McArthur River pipeline, which penetrates into the Beetaloo area but it only has limited capacity.
The NT Government spokeswoman said the pre-feasibility analysis would consider routing options, engineering, geotechnical, environmental, financial, land use and sacred site considerations involved in the creation of a new gas corridor.
"The analysis will assist in the de-risking of the corridor with a view to supporting future development and investment."
The spokeswoman said the proposed pipeline was an industry development activity "to support the development of the onshore gas industry and to maximise benefits for Territorians".
The government spokeswoman continued:
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The Chinese pipeline company Jemena would likely be the one to construct a pipeline utilizing this corridor from Tennant Creek south of the Beetaloo concession north to Darwin. My thought is that the NT government and Jemena must believe that the Beetaloo contains commercial quantities of gas to warrant the proposed construction of this corridor/pipeline. This proposed pipeline is being called the missing piece of the puzzle – is has been whispered about over the last few years as Jemena said they would provide pipeline capacity if/when the Beetaloo gas potential proved itself. This is a bit of good news while we suffer through what is now the COVID-19 delay in Origin/Falcon’s Beetaloo project. GLA
This also came out this week:
Natural gas ‘our silver bullet’
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/natural-gas-our-silver-bullet/news-story/238be452fb98bb52b48d8ca8f0ad737b?fbclid=IwAR1vWptgpqIvXgeWjWXQPAWgoDOCuVqZR0NLHmaFovMZ-3CNc7dh_eJFRCk
Liveris says Australia needs to increase self-sufficiency, including developing its domestic gas industry. “If you want some shovel-ready things to do, I would look to the energy and gas area,” he says. “Natural gas can be our silver bullet. We have an abundance of gas. We can have gas storage and generation and transmission. We could put together a plan within minutes and execute it in a few months and get more gas supply in a year.”
Like I said earlier panicked governments are now realizing who butters their bread. Alberta's government just announced a large investment in the Keystone XL pipeline, a rebalancing of priorities has finally arrived and the road will be paved with these snowflakes. Governments are going broke and I don't think many people have any tolerance for BS at this point!!!
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The pipeline would transport gas and/or liquids.
The consultants would need to "conduct and record initial landowner discussions with regard to the position of the corridor within their property".
Lock the Gate Alliance said maps released with the tender show the pipeline would travel from Tennant Creek to a gas hub near Darwin where it could then be exported to Asian countries.
Arid Lands Environment Centre director Jimmy ****ing said it was a disturbing revelation at a time when gas fracking companies were indefinitely putting their operations in the NT on hold.
"It's bad enough the NT Government would spend public money propping up the fracking industry," he said.
Dan Robins from Protect Country Alliance in Darwin said it made no sense to be supporting an economically unviable industry.
"There is no sound reason for public money to be spent on gas infrastructure even when economic times are good, but to do so now is simply lunacy.
The NT Government has been approached today for comment.
https://www.katherinetimes.com.au/…/surprise-plans-for-a-g…/
Gunner's surprise plans for a gas pipeline to connect Beetaloo to Darwin
Details of a pipeline to bring onshore gas from the Beetaloo Basin to Darwin were disclosed today.
For many, the proposed pipeline is the missing piece of the puzzle needed for the establishment of an onshore gas industry in the NT.
The NT Government has advertised a tender, made public by the Lock the Gate Alliance today, for a pre-feasibility study for a pipeline "corridor" from Tennant Creek to Darwin.
The 100-metre wide corridor of the pipeline is proposed to closely follow the Stuart Highway and through Katherine and Pine Creek to reach Darwin.
Another gas pipeline between Tennant Creek and Mount Isa, a distance of 622km, was opened by Jemena in 2018.
At the time, then Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Matt Canavan said the $800 million pipeline linked NT's Amadeus Gas Pipeline to Queensland's Carpentaria Gas Pipeline.
With this latest move the Northern Gas Pipeline could be used to send any gas extracted by fracking from the Beetaloo Basin west to Tennant Creek and through this new pipeline to Darwin for either processing or direct export.
Several companies Origin Energy and Santos chief among them, are well advanced on their exploration of shale gas in the Beetaloo since the NT Government dropped a moratorium against the industry in April 2018.
Most experts believe there are huge reservoirs of gas which could be unlocked by fracking in the Beetaloo but the costs of extracting the gas from deep underground and sending it to the east coast could have made the industry unviable.
The closing date for tenders for this pre-feasibility study is tomorrow.
One of the jobs proposed for the consultants is to consider landowner arrangements where the pipeline is to be laid north to Darwin.
"This is aimed to provide clarity to the Gas Taskforce and Government for future decisions regarding acquisition of a corridor to transport gas from on shore reserves to existing and planned gas industry infrastructure," tender documents state.
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It is Jemena. In that photo the Jemena logo is visible on the helmet. That may not be a recent photo but its inclusion in this article does point to them
Is this Jemena? It must be. Moreover, if this is the concrete plan then Beetaloo must be viewed as commercial
thanks for that fella...
This doesn't provide the full article, but it does show the proposed pipeline expansion on a map in blue.
https://outline.com/HymrP7
https://www.katherinetimes.com.au/story/6705475/surprise-plans-for-a-gas-pipeline-to-connect-beetaloo-to-darwin/
Building pipeline to Darwin do not have access to get full article , but the is pretty clear