Narrabri to Wellington Gas Pipeline

Client: Eastern Star Gas

Eastern Star Gas engaged CNC Project Management to project manage all the regulatory approvals and permitting of its proposed 283 km Narrabri to Wellington Pipeline.

Key deliverables for the project included:

• Preliminary constraints mapping, study corridor selection, provision of Preliminary Constraints Study Report, project planning, budgeting and scheduling;
• Liaison with Department of Planning, all processes under Part 3A of EP&A Act, including Preliminary Environmental Assessment, Major Project Application and Environmental Assessment;
• Project GIS mapping, data acquisition and collation, title searches, landholder schedule and associated plans;
• Key stakeholder, community and landholder consultation;
• Native Title and cultural heritage consultation;
• Coordinate a constructability review and preliminary risk assessment by third party engineering advisors;
• Coordinate cadastral and engineering surveys of the alignments;
• Carry out negotiations with landholders for “Option to Enter into Easement”, inclusive of negotiating and documenting agreements for compensation, final alignment, construction and reinstatement conditions;
• Carry out application for pipeline licence(s) under Pipelines Act 1967; and
• Development of all documentation required to be handed over to a construction contractor prior to construction in relation to permits and licences, including a property schedule and Construction Line List, Cultural Heritage Management Plan and other information as required.

Following the acquisition of Eastern Star Gas, this project is no longer active.