North Queensland Gas Pipeline
The North Queensland Gas Pipeline (NQGP) is a 391km gas pipeline system in NE Queensland. It transports gas (sourced from coal seam gas fields in the Bowen Basin) from the Moranbah gas processing plant to industrial customers in Townsville. It is comprised of a mainline from Moranbah to the Townsville Power Station, a lateral pipeline connecting the mainline to the Stuart Industrial Area and delivery facilities at Yabulu and Stuart.
The NQGP is wholly owned by Palisade, and operated under a field services agreement by TW Power Services. It was constructed in 2004 by Enertrade (a Queensland government owned corporation), and was acquired by Palisade in 2015.
The NQGP is a non-scheme pipeline under Part 23 of the NGR – but has Category 2 and Category 3 exemptions. The NQGP is therefore exempt from information disclosure provisions, and from publishing service usage information, service availability information and financial information. Accordingly, the amount of information on the AOGP provided by APGA’s pipeline information web portal is limited.
Link to explanation of Part 23 exemptions on the AER website
