The plant will be used to process gasfrom ExxonMobil's Kipper Tuna Turrum project, which started producingoil and gas in October from two of three fields in the offshore Gippsland basin.
“Thegas conditioning plant project is part of (ExxonMobil subsidiary)Esso and BHP Billiton’s significant investment programme in naturalgas projects in Gippsland,” ExxonMobil Australia chairman RichardOwen said.
“Oncethe plant is operational in 2016, we will deliver 1.6