>Might be time to brush up on my Australian slang and "Bail up" my Australian "Bastard" brother-in-law and have him take me on a "Walkabout".
Too funny, LOL.
By the way, I’m “grinning like a shot fox”.
On the more serious note, one thing is for sure, marketing the gas from Falcon’s Beetaloo play will heavily depends on LNG terminals. Luckily there’s one in Darwin only 500 kilometers away from the Falcon fields.
Darwin LNG
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Darwin Liquefied Natural Gas Plant
 The Darwin LNG plant uses the ConocoPhillips Optimised Cascade® Process as the basis for its LNG technology. This technology employs a two-trains-in-one design for increasing reliability and flexibility. It was first used in 1969 in ConocoPhillips’ Kenai LNG plant in Alaska.
The Darwin LNG plant has introduced several firsts in the evolution of LNG liquefaction technology.The Kenai LNG Project set the trend for the LNG industry when it was the first LNG plant to use gas turbines for refrigerant compressor drivers in place of the traditional steam turbines. The Darwin LNG plant continues to build on this history of innovation by being the first LNG plant to use high efficiency, low emission, aero-derivative gas turbines as refrigerant drivers.
The Darwin LNG plant also incorporates several other design features to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. One such feature is the waste heat recovery on the gas turbine exhaust that is used for various heating requirements within the plant. Additional equipment has been installed to recover vapours generated from the LNG ships during LNG loading to reduce emissions.
The Darwin LNG plant minimises nitrogen oxide emissions from the gas turbines by the injection of water into the gas turbines.
 The Darwin LNG facility has a single tank for LNG storage. This is one of the largest above-ground LNG tanks constructed to date with a working capacity of 188,000 cubic metres. The facility has a ground flare instead of a conventional stack to minimize visual effects from the facility and any intrusion on aviation traffic in the Darwin area.
The ConocoPhillips Optimised Cascade® Process progressively cools the gas through propane, ethane and methane refrigeration phases down to minus 161 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, the natural gas becomes liquefied natural gas (“What is LNG") that takes up 600 times less volume and can be safety and efficiently shipped to customers in specially designed LNG tankers.
Tokyo Electric and Tokyo Gas individually manage transport of LNG from Darwin to Japan. The ships range in size from 125,000 to 145,000 cubic metres.
Construction of the Darwin Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant began in June 2003 and the plant was commissioned in the first quarter 2006 when LNG sales commenced.
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