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January 2011

The Gorgon Project will develop the Greater Gorgon Area gas fields, located about 130 kilometres off the north-west coast of Western Australia. Gorgon is a story of energy and the environment as well as technology and expertise.

It is one of the world's largest natural gas projects and the largest single resource natural gas project in Australia's history.

Water is a critical resource required for the construction of facilities for the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project on Barrow Island. While a solution had been found for transporting the water to Barrow Island, the Gorgon Project needed a short term, large capacity and cost-effective water storage solution for three million litres of construction water on the island. Waterplex, Australia’s premier water bladder tank company, developed a solution.

Working with the Gorgon Project, Waterplex developed, supplied and installed 3 x 1 mega litre bladder tanks for water storage on the island. Each bladder tank measures 1024m² when deployed and fills to 1.1m in height. The Gorgon Project bladder tanks are the largest bladder tanks ever made, supplied and deployed in Australia. The water is used for earthworks dust suppression and construction of the facilities required for the Gorgon Project. The three mega litre water storage project was delivered and deployed in full and on time by Waterplex.

Waterplex is Australia’s premier bladder tank company and supplies industrial, commercial and domestic bladder tank and lining solutions. Product development, innovation and customised solutions are central to all Waterplex water storage and containment solutions.

The Gorgon Project is operated by an Australian subsidiary of Chevron and is a joint venture of the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (approximately 47 percent), ExxonMobil (25 percent) and Shell (25 percent), Osaka Gas (1.25 percent), Tokyo Gas (one percent) and Chubu Electric Power (0.417 percent).

Waterplex can be contacted on 1300 72 66 70 or via www.waterplex.com.au