The Chevron-operated Gorgon Project, currently under construction, is one of the world's largest natural gas projects and Australia's largest single resource project.

The Greater Gorgon Area gas fields, located between 130 and 200 kilometres off the northwest coast of Western Australia, contain resources of approximately 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and are Australia’s largest-known natural gas resource.

To process this gas, Chevron will undertake a subsea development of the Gorgon and Jansz-Io fields, which will be tied back to Barrow Island. These two fields are to be developed in parallel initially, with other fields in the area coming onstream at a later date.

Chevron will construct a gas treatment plant on Barrow Island which includes three, five million tonne per annum liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing trains and a domestic gas plant with the capacity to provide 300 terajoules per day.

Barrow Island, the home of the Gorgon Project, is a Class A Nature Reserve and is recognised internationally as a location where industry and the environment co-exist.

The Project will also be a global leader in the application of greenhouse gas storage technology incorporating one of the world’s largest underground carbon dioxide injection projects.

A final investment decision on the Project was made in September 2009. It is estimated to cost approximately AUD$43 billion for the first phase of development and first gas is planned for 2014.

The Gorgon Project is operated by an Australian subsidiary of Chevron and is a joint venture of the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (approximately 47 percent), ExxonMobil (25 percent), Shell (25 percent), Osaka Gas (1.25 percent), Tokyo Gas (one percent) and Chubu Electric Power (0.417 percent).

For more information on the Gorgon Project, visit the Chevron Australia website.