Chevron Australia, a unit of US energy giant Chevron, has shipped the 2000th cargo of liquefied natural gas from its giant Gorgon LNG terminal in Western Australia.
Chevron Australia announced the milestone shipment from the Barrow Island LNG facility in an emailed statement on Tuesday.
The 173,400-cbm Maran Gas Chios loaded the milestone shipment.
Shell, which charters the LNG carrier and is a partner in the project, lifted the cargo.
The Gorgon project is a joint venture of the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (47.3 percent), ExxonMobil (25 percent), Shell (25 percent), Osaka Gas (1.25 percent), MidOcean Energy (1 percent) and Jera (0.417 percent).
“Since the first LNG cargo departed Barrow Island in March 2016, Gorgon has become a pillar of energy security for Australia and the broader Asia Pacific region, playing a vital role in providing LNG to our international trading partners, while also ensuring reliable supply of domestic gas for Western Australian homes and businesses,” Chevron Australia president, Balaji Krisnamurthy, said.
He said that Gorgon has become the largest supplier of gas to Western Australia’s gas market, producing more than 20 percent of the state’s supply in 2025.
“These milestones reinforce the critical role LNG developments have played in not only supporting the growth of Western Australian’s domestic gas sector but also underpinning significant, long‑term investment in the country — supporting thousands of jobs, generating substantial tax and royalty revenues, and helping drive economic growth,” Krisnamurthy said.
Gorgon comprises a three-train, 15.6 million tonnes per annum LNG facility and a domestic gas plant with the capacity to supply 300 terajoules of gas per day to Western Australia.
In December last year, Chevron Australia and its partners took a final investment decision to develop backfill fields to maintain natural gas supply to the Gorgon LNG facility.
The A$3 billion ($1.95 billion) backfill development, or Gorgon Stage 3, will connect the offshore Geryon and Eurytion natural gas fields in the Greater Gorgon Area to Gorgon’s existing subsea gas gathering infrastructure and processing facilities on Barrow Island.
The first stage of Gorgon was the Gorgon foundation project, which included constructing the Gorgon gas treatment plant and domestic gas plant on Barrow Island and developing the Gorgon and Jansz–Io offshore gas fields. (February 3, 2026, Source: https://lngprime.com/australia-and-oceania/chevrons-gorgon-lng-terminal-ships-2000th-cargo/176452/)
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