Work begins on $460 million gas pipeline in outback Western Australia

Construction has started on a 580-kilometre, $460 million pipeline in Western Australia that can savor natural gas from the Perth basin out to resources projects within the teach’s Goldfields. 

The Northern Goldfields Interconnect pipeline will develop a 2,690km gas pipeline network in WA and vastly enlarge the amount of gas readily accessible inland.  

Infrastructure company APA Personnel has started constructing the line about 50 kilometres east of Geraldton, at the intersection of the Dampier to Bunbury pipeline.

Over the approaching months it’ll dissipate to 600 team to make the 30-centimetre diameter pipeline west to the Goldfields gas pipeline south of Leinster. 

The project has been delayed because of the authorities approvals, nonetheless APA recent manager of infrastructure planning and approvals Gerard Coggan hoped the project could be carried out in March. 

“It’s a logistically engaging project nonetheless it absolutely is something that APA and our principal contractor has carried out forward of,” he talked about.

“Now we maintain spent just a few years planning this project, so we’re taking a search for forward to executing the project … and turning in gas to the Goldfields field. 

He talked about the gas would attend to additional stimulate financial vogue within the eastern Goldfields field and beef up a differ of latest projects.

“That can beef up extra employment within the sphere and the WA authorities has been very supportive of that project,” Mr Coggan talked about. 

Mr Coggan talked about APA had also created relationship agreements with worn owner groups alongside the pipeline to develop pathways for commercial and employment opportunities. 

As phase of constructing, the Yalgoo to Mount Magnet road could be closed for 15-minute intervals as soon as per day from Could possibly 30 to June 6.