Gorgon 80% complete

Chevron’s Gorgon LNG project in Australia continues to make steady progress toward first liquefied natural gas, and is 80 percent complete with start-up expected in mid-2015, George Kirkland, Chevron’s vice chairman said at the company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders in Midland, Texas.

Almost 6,000 people are working on constructing this massive LNG project, which includes the construction of a 15.6 million tonne per annum LNG plant on Barrow Island,

Wheatstone LNG project, the company’s second LNG project in Australia, is now almost 35 percent complete and remains on schedule for a start-up in 2016, Kirkland added.

Very soon to many less than 6000 employees…

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.