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Dampier plans to pump up volumes



By Upstream staff 

The owners of Western Australia's 1600-kilometre Dampier-to-Bunbury gas pipeline have boosted the capacity of its proposed fifth stage expansion by 354 million cubic feet of gas per day.

The move, which came about after major industrial customers asked for more gas, is expected to increase the cost of the fifth stage expansion from A$1 billion )$740 million) to A$1.5 billion.

This expansion will see about 1150 kilometres of new pipeline laid alongside the existing pipe.

Dampier Bunbury Pipeline (DBP) executive chairman Stuart Hohnen said: “DBP needs to secure all the necessary regulatory, finance and internal approvals before the expansion can proceed. These approvals will be required by the middle of 2006 to be able to expand the pipeline in time to meet the first requests for extra capacity.”

The consortium, consisting of Diversified Utility & Energy Trusts, Alinta and Alcoa, hopes to secure approvals and re-negotiated contracts with customers in time for a final board commitment to the funding of the expansion by the middle of this year.


Tuesday, 21 February, 2006, 03:28 GMT  | last updated: Tuesday, 21 February, 2006, 10:47 GMT

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