Jackson to Moomba Oil Pipeline

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The Jackson – Moomba pipeline from Jackson in southwest Queensland to Moomba in north eastern South Australia is aimed at optimizing the transport of oil from Jackson fields to Santos’ existing Port Bonython facility just north of Adelaide.  It has an initial operational capability to pump 2,880 m3/d (18,000 bpd).

GHD provided Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) for the oil pipeline and facilities.  The pipeline was designed and constructed to AS 2885.1-2007 which had only been recently released at the time.  It is a 273 km Class 900# DN200 buried steel pipeline and connects Santos’ Jackson facility to its Moomba facility.  The facilities designed and constructed during this project included metering stations, pig launching / receiving stations and main line valves.  There are also provisions for multiple future intakes and additional pumping booster stations to eventually increase the capacity from the initial 2,880 m3/d (18,000 bpd) to 5,200 m3/d (32,700 bpd).

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