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GE Oil & Gas secures $400M Gorgon contract
Projects / Policy, Oct 22 2009 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- GE Oil & Gas has been awarded a competitive bid worth over $400 Million to deploy equipment for LNG production along with CO2 storage at Gorgon in Australia.
GE will supply Chevron with:
• Three Main Refrigerant Compression Trains required for Gorgon’s production of 15 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) LNG – equating to three shipments a week leaving Gorgon’s purpose-built LNG loading jetty;,
• Six Compression Trains required to drive Gorgon’s carbon C02 project, the world’s largest - injecting up to four times more carbon dioxide than any other project worldwide.
The Gorgon natural gas fields are located at Barrow Island, around 130km off Western Australia. Gas will be extracted and delivered via subsea and underground pipelines to gas treatment and liquefaction facilities on Barrow Island's south east coast.
Three 5-MTPA GE Main Refrigerant Compression Trains, each comprising two GE Frame-7 Gas Turbines plus liquefaction compressors, will be used for the production of liquefied natural gas by chilling to –160°C, ready for shipping, before re-gasification and pipeline transportation for use by domestic and industrial customers.
Prior to liquefaction CO2 will be stripped out and injected into the depleted natural gas wells 1,300-meters deep to ensure its safe storage and the reduction of emissions. Six surface operating, 15 MW electric-motor driven GE Compression Trains will be used.
The GE Main Refrigerant Compression Trains and the GE Compression Trains for CO2 sequestration will be manufactured and tested in Florence and Massa, Italy, then shipped in 2011 and 2012.
