Air Monitoring in Western Australia

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GHD conducted one of the most comprehensive ambient air monitoring programs ever to be undertaken by an Australian company, on the remote Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia.

The project, for Woodside Energy, on behalf of the North West Shelf Venture, involved GHD’s environmental team designing a program to monitor the ambient and occupational air quality around the Karratha gas plant and offshore facilities, particularly for benzene, toluene and xylene (BTX) emissions.

This two-stage program, including extensive occupational monitoring and fixed-point data collection, confirmed earlier modelling conclusions indicating safe ambient air. One of the project challenges was conducting over 600 specialist air analyses in laboratories located some 4500km away.

The program was part of the North West Shelf Venture’s air emission reduction strategy, which included a significant capital investment in new technology, as well as a detailed monitoring program to confirm previous modeling results that predicted BTX ambient air concentrations in the area were well within internationally accepted health standards.

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GHD provides practical, scientific based air quality and noise management solutions. We consider sustainable practice and legislative demands on air and noise outcomes to help you reach your targets efficiently – to keep you ahead of the pack.

The right advice in air & noise can help the environment, improve your project success and reduce life cycle costs.

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GHD provides holistic, integrated solutions for managing impact assessment and approvals. Our environmental and community planners, engineers and scientists work with you to understand your needs from concept phase through to decommissioning.

From the start of a project, we consider environmental and social factors to help you minimise potential impacts of a project, reduce approvals timeframes and compliance costs and increase community engagement and acceptance.

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We cover technologies from conventional fossil fuel firing in thermal power plants (e.g. sub-critical and supercritical coal-fired plants, coal seam methane and natural gas fired gas turbines, combined cycle power plant and cogeneration) to emerging technologies such as integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) and polygeneration (combined power, heat and chemicals).

Our teams can engage with you at all levels and stages of project delivery – from concept design and feasibility studies through to all aspects of asset management.

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