Devil Creek Gas Plant Power Optimisation Project

Devil Creek Gas Plant Power Optimisation Project is an Industrial Electricity and Fuel Efficiency project located at the onshore Devil Creek Gas Plant, approximately 45km southwest of Karratha in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It was registered in February 2018, and while the exact project area size is not publicly detailed, the activities are conducted within the operational footprint of the gas processing facility.

Industrial Electricity and Fuel Efficiency projects generate carbon credits by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of industrial operations. This is achieved by modifying, removing, or replacing existing energy-consuming equipment to improve overall fuel efficiency. For this specific project, Santos Limited is focused on optimizing electricity generation equipment and power supply systems at the plant.

The Karratha and wider Pilbara area is heavily characterized by heavy industrial land use, including major mining, oil, and gas operations, interspersed with extensive pastoral grazing. The environment features an arid-tropical, semi-arid climate with intense summer heat and low, unreliable rainfall that is largely driven by sporadic summer thunderstorms and cyclonic activity. The dominant soil types across this rugged landscape are shallow stony soils over siliceous red-brown hardpans, alongside red earthy soils commonly classified as Red Kandosols.

The Devil Creek Gas Plant originally opened in 2011 as Western Australia's third domestic gas processing plant, providing critical energy security to the state with a gross production capacity of 215 terajoules per day. Natural gas processed at the plant is fed directly into the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline to supply industrial and domestic consumers. Additionally, an administrative variation was recorded for this carbon project in October 2021, which updated the registered participant name from Santos WA Energy Limited to Santos Limited.