Skip to content The first two LNG trains at the North West Shelf venture have operated since 1989, making it Australia’s first LNG export project. The project was licensed before the PRRT, so it paid royalties and excise instead until it was brought into the PRRT on 1 July... Woodside’s Pluto LNG project in Western Australia began production at the end of April 2012. Between 2012 and 2019, eight new LNG projects came online, making Australia one of the world’s largest LNG exporters.Source: LNG Industry, Pluto LNG begins... BG Group’s Queensland Curtis LNG project loaded its first cargo at Gladstone at the end of December 2014. GLNG and APLNG followed in 2015 and 2016.Source: World Oil, BG starts LNG shipments from QCLNG The first cargo from Chevron’s Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island left for Japan in March 2016.Source: World Oil, First Gorgon LNG cargo sets sail for Japan Inpex’s Ichthys LNG project shipped its first cargo from its plant near Darwin in October 2018.Source: INPEX, First LNG cargo from Ichthys 