The Moomba Adelaide Pipeline System is a

natural gas Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium ...

pipeline delivering gas from the

Cooper Basin The Cooper Basin is a Permian-Triassic sedimentary geological basin in Australia. The intracratonic rift basin is located mainly in the southwestern part of Queensland and extends into northeastern South Australia. It is named after the Coop ...

gas wells near

Moomba Moomba may refer to: * Moomba Festival, a Labour Day festival in Melbourne, Australia *Moomba, South Australia, a town *Moomba (constituency) Moomba is a constituency of the National Assembly (Zambia), National Assembly of Zambia. It covers the ea ...

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, with spur pipelines to Angaston and

Whyalla Whyalla is a city in South Australia. It was founded as Hummock's Hill, and was known by that name until 1916. It is the fourth most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier, and Gawler, and along ...

. It can also receive gas from Southeastern

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

through the QSN Link pipeline owned by APA Group. The pipeline was developed by the

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and commenced operation on 28 November 1969. It was privatised in 1995 and bought by

Queensland Investment Corporation QIC (Queensland Investment Corporation) is a Government owned investment company owned by the Queensland Government. It was founded on 1 July 1991 pursuant to the ''Queensland Investment Corporation Act 1991'' to serve the long-term investment ...

, the parent company of Epic Energy in April 2013. The pipeline system now consists of a total of of high pressure gas pipelines, including of laterals. The main lateral spurs are the one to

Port Pirie Port Pirie is a small city on the east coast of the Spencer Gulf in South Australia, north of the state capital, Adelaide. Port Pirie is the largest city and the main retail centre of the Mid North region of South Australia. The city has an ex ...

and

and the one to Angaston. The Angaston spur can also feed gas into the Riverland Pipeline owned by Envestra, which supplies gas to Murray Bridge, Berri and

Mildura Mildura ( ) is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia. Located on the Victorian side of the Murray River, Mildura had a population of 34,565 at the 2021 census. When nearby Wentworth, Irymple, Nichols Point, Merbein and Red ...

. The main pipeline is long and in diameter. The lateral to Port Pirie is at continuing to Whyalla at . The Angaston lateral is of diameter. There are also several loops at the southern end. The Reeves Plains Power Station was in 2017 proposed to be constructed adjacent to the pipeline and draw gas directly from it. However, support had not been obtained by March 2019, when the project was one of 12 projects shortlisted in the

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's Underwriting New Generation Investments program.

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