Globe Valve Bypass Project
APLNG | Queenslands
Overview
APLNG’s Main Pipeline System (MPS) and High Pressure Gas Network (HPGN), which are operated by Origin Energy, supplies gas to the LNG export facility at Curtis Island in Gladstone, Queensland.
The Globe Valve Bypass project involved works to remediate facilities on the MPS and HPGN that previously limited the de-pressurisation and re-pressurisation capabilities of assets within the systems.
NEJV was engaged to undertake procurement, offsite fabrication and brownfields site installation works involved with the Project.
Project facts
SCOPE
- Gas pipeline and facilities remediation works
CLIENT
- APLNG
LOCATION
- Multiple sites from Roma to Gladstone, Queensland
DATES
- April 2017 to Dec 2018
ROLES & SERVICES
- Project management team located in the APLNG Project Office in Milton QLD, working alongside OSD designers team and APLNG
- Site construction team based in Miles QLD The project workforce includes welders, riggers, operators, mechanical fitters, labourers, electrical and instrumentation technicians, survey and NDT
KEY CHALLENGES
- Brownfields work
- Geographical spread of works
- Scope developed in parallel with construction
MAJOR ACHIEVMENTS
- Early mobilisation
- Completion of works in prioritised phases from Nov 2017 to Dec 2018
- 5 crews active across different work sites at one time
- Exceptional planning and communication by the site team in delivering over 176,000 man hours of work and approx. 1,200,000km driving incident free
