Moomba reset – breathing new life into a 50 year old asset

Abstract

Santos has big ambitions for the asset that started it all. We are setting up Moomba for the next 50 years. Moomba is more than just a gas plant, it is a township. Its primary industry is processing oil and gas, it operates off the grid by generating its own power, produces its own water, and provides accommodation to many businesses and hundreds of workers each night. The gas plant had received the most attention, in a structured program of maintenance and rejuvenation, generating high levels of safety and reliability that will extend the life of the facility for many years. However, Santos has now adopted an integrated town-plan approach towards Moomba to restore this nationally vital asset as a state of the art processing, storage and transportation hub, servicing east coast and southern gas markets. Whereas Santos has been successful in reducing its field-based resources footprint through technology and efficiency, Moomba’s physical footprint had not kept pace. Through consolidation of working places and delivery locations, reduction in physical footprints for warehousing, yards and accommodation, and a major renovation of the camp facilities, Santos is breathing new life into an aging asset. At the same time, Santos is keeping costs down through cooperative and sustainable arrangements with existing suppliers and contractors. It has also identified real value through the opportunity to provide Cooper Basin-wide services to maintenance, operations and projects from the Moomba Township.