Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline
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The Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP) is one of the longest and largest capacity natural gas pipelines in Australia[citation needed].
It extends almost 1600km from the Pilbara region to the south west of Western Australia, supplying natural gas to industrial, commercial and residential customers in Perth and major regional centres along the pipeline route.
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[edit] Ownership
The pipeline had been owned by the government, which in 1998 sold the pipeline to Epic Energy [1]
Dampier Bunbury Pipeline (DBP) is the trading name of the DBNGP group of companies, ultimately owned by the consortium that purchased the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline in October 2004. DBP is ultimately 60% owned by DUET - Diversified Utilities and Energy Trusts - with Alcoa and Alinta each owning ultimately 20%.
The DBP Executive team is responsible to the owners for the performance of the business. It performs a full range of corporate and regulatory services and commercial and strategic functions in respect to the DBNGP, including business and asset management plan review, managing the financing arrangements for the business, negotiating and managing the contractual relationships with shippers and managing the business' regulatory and risk management issues.
[edit] History and throughput
The pipleine was investigated and then ommissioned in 1984 with the extension south to Bunbury commissioned in 1985 [2]
The pipeline runs from the Burrup Peninsula, near Dampier, to Bunbury in the south-west of the State. [3]
1,596km long gas transmission main pipeline and 258 km of lateral pipeline. Current capacity of the pipeline is 632 TJ/day.[citation needed]
Following Stage 4 expansion the maximum capacity will be 735 TJ/day.[citation needed]
[edit] Pipeline Corridor
The DBNG pipeline corridor runs near and crosses the North West Coastal highway to near the Yannrie river where it passes inland, east of the Kennedy Range National Park crossing the Murchison River near Mulla Mulla flat, moving south to cross the Midlands road east of Dongara.
[edit] References
- ^ The Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline was sold by the Government to Epic Energy Australia on Wednesday 25 March 1998 GasBusiness, Autumn 1998, p. 3
- ^ Fluor Australia Pty. Ltd.(1983) Dampier-Perth Natural Gas Pipeline : proposed Bunbury extension : environmental review and management programme prepared by Fluor/Maunsell, Perth [for the] State Energy Commission Western Australia. Perth, W.A. The Commission. 2 v. "September 1982" Appendices in 2nd volume.
- ^ The 600mm, 1530km Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline transports gas from the Carnarvon Basin to customers in the Pilbara, Carnarvon, Geraldton, Perth and Bunbury areas. as at http://www.pdc.wa.gov.au/industry/types-of-industries/oil-and-gas.aspx
