ABB signs $33 million service contract with QGC

ABB has signed a long-term service agreement (LTSA) with QGC, a wholly owned subsidiary of BG Group, to provide planned and unplanned maintenance for the up- and midstream facilities at Queensland Curtis Liquefied Natural Gas (QCLNG).

In 2011, ABB was awarded a $58 million order from QGC to provide, as main automation contractor (MAC), integrated automation, safety and telecommunications systems and related equipment for the upstream coal-seam gas project.

The project, located in Queensland, Australia, is the world’s first to convert gas from coal-seam into liquefied natural gas.

QCLNG is a priority project for QGC because it involves expanding exploration and development in southern and central Queensland. The upstream facilities stretch across the Surat Basin, where the coal-seam gas is gathered and transported along a 540-kilometre underground pipeline, to the LNG plant on Curtis Island near Gladstone.

The contract value is $33 million over four years, with potential for extending the service term up to a period of 10 years. ABB is to provide comprehensive services including an on-site team to maintain ABB’s Extended Automation System 800xA integrated control and safety systems (ICSS). The contract also covers spare parts management for QCLNG’s upstream collection and transportation facility as well as for the midstream liquefaction and export facility.