Sepura announced the contract to supply TETRA radio terminals to Bechtel, a world leader in the construction of liquefied natural gas plants, at the Santos Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) Project site in Queensland, Australia.
The Santos GLNG Project, due for completion in 2015, is a pioneering initiative to convert coal seam natural gas to liquefied natural gas (LNG). Once converted, the LNG will be transported via a 420 kilometre underground pipeline to an LNG plant on Curtis Island, off the coastline of Gladstone, for export to global markets.
Bechtel’s new TETRA communications solution comprises DAMM infrastructure and approximately 300 Sepura terminals including STP9000 and STP8X Intrinsically Safe hand-portable radios. The system is designed to cover a radius of 8 kilometres to allow for a major expansion of Santos GLNG’s site planned in the next two years.
Doug Bowden, Senior Business Development Manager for Sepura in Australia commented: “Robustness and ruggedness are just some of the features that have contributed to making Sepura radios the terminals of choice for the Australian utilities and mining industries in the last two years. Operatives from these sectors are known to work, often in isolation, in some of the harshest and most expansive terrains, hence their communications tools must be able to withstand extreme climatic conditions and temperatures”.
Bowden concluded: “We are confident that the new TETRA solution and the expertise of all the parties involved in this major collaboration will help enhance Bechtel’s communications across all its operations at the Santos GLNG Project”.