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AGN announces first green
hydrogen production
PROJECTS & AUSTRALIAN Gas Networks (AGN) has
COMPANIES announced the first green hydrogen production
from its renewable gas facility in South Australia.
AGN, which is part of Australian Gas Infra-
structure Group (AGIG), said on December
7 that production had taken place during the
commissioning of a 1.25-MW proton exchange
membrane (PEM) electrolyser at its Hydrogen
Park South Australia (HyP SA) project.
AGIG CEO Ben Wilson said, however, that
final commissioning of the AUD11.4mn plant
would be pushed into the New Year owing to
coronavirus (COVID-19) related challenges
during commissioning. He said the decision
had arisen out of staffing challenges connected to
the approaching holiday period. The delays are
expected from personnel having to “take time
and meet any mandatory quarantine require-
ments to travel back home”.
He added: “This decision means we have of 2022. Moreover, it reiterated its desire this
reforecast our aim to deliver Australia’s first week to introduce hydrogen into Victoria’s gas
renewable gas blend to households from 2020 to networks via the Australian Hydrogen Centre.
the first quarter of 2021 and we look forward to Australia is pushing to became a serious player
resuming the final stages of commissioning in in the blue and green hydrogen space, with the gov-
early 2021.” ernment having recently thrown its weight behind
When the project is up and running AGIG the technology. Hydrogen is seen as not just a
expects it to supply around 700 residential cus- means of ensuring the future of the country’s gas
tomers with blended 5% renewable gas. producers, but also as a means of repurposing the
The company is also in the detailed engineer- country’s gas grid, which is increasingly at risk of
ing and design phase for a hydrogen production becoming defunct in the face of a wholesale switch
plant in Queensland, with a target start-up date to renewable power solutions.
Chevron temporarily shuts
Wheatstone unit on operational issue
PROJECTS & CHEVRON has temporarily shut down a unit facility remained operational and that it contin-
COMPANIES that separates natural gas from associated liquids ued to deliver gas to its customers.
at its Wheatstone processing platform offshore The offshore Wheatstone facilities gather
Western Australia. The shutdown was initiated and partially process gas and associated con-
after an “anomaly” within a nozzle on an inlet densate from the Wheatstone, Iago, Julimar
separator vessel was found during routine main- and Brunello gas fields, and deliver it onshore
tenance inspections, a Chevron spokesman told via trunkline for further processing. Onshore,
Reuters on December 8. the majority of the gas is processed by two
“The unit, which separates gas and liquids, liquefaction trains before being exported on
has been shut down as a precaution while addi- LNG tankers, while some is also processed in
tional assessments are undertaken,” the spokes- a plant designed to serve the domestic market.
man was quoted by Reuters as saying. Chevron The LNG trains have a combined capacity of
did not provide a timeline for when the unit 8.9mn tonnes per year (tpy).
would be returned to service, but noted that all The outage at the offshore unit comes as a
processing trains at the Wheatstone onshore gas further illustration of the technical challenges
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