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Friday 30 June 2006 Another Milestone to Meet Territory’s Future Electricity NeedsA Gas Sale Agreement between the Power and Water Corporation and Eni Australia, which was finalised this week, is another milestone towards meeting the Northern Territory’s electricity needs for the next 25 years. Power and Water’s Managing Director Kim Wood said the agreement will see Power and Water purchasing around 750 petajoules of gas that will be used to run power stations in all regional centres from Alice Springs to Darwin. “Eni will extract the gas from the Blacktip Gas Field, which is located around 100km west of Wadeye in the Timor Sea,” said Mr Wood. “The gas will come onshore at Yelcherr, near Wadeye, to a processing plant, and will then be transported via a gas pipeline from Wadeye to connect to the existing Amadeus north-south pipeline, that currently brings gas from Central Australia.” The project will include the construction of a pipeline from Yelcherr to the existing Amadeus pipeline at Ban Ban Springs, 150km south of Darwin. “The Gas Transportation Agreement between Power and Water and the Australian Pipeline Trust, which was signed today, will lead to the construction of the 275 Km Bonaparte Gas pipeline linking the gas processing plant at Wadeye to the Amadeus Basin to Darwin gas pipeline in time to supply the first gas by 1 January 2009,” said Mr Wood.
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