On 29 January 2009 the Western Australian Government announced the establishment of the Gas Supply and Emergency Management Committee.

The Committee reviewed the security of the State’s gas supplies and how any future gas supply disruptions be managed. The Committee was tasked to review and provide advice to Government in regard to:

    • gas disruption emergency response; 
    • gas supply security, both present and long term; 
    • the potential for gas storage or alternative schemes to avoid gas supply
      disruption or alleviate its effect; and 
    • lessons learnt from the disruption in supplies from Varanus Island in 2008.

The Committee delivered its final report to the Minister for Energy on 3 September 2009, and a copy may be accessed from the link below.

Final Report

The Gas Supply and Emergency Management Committee Report to Government.

Please note the following disclaimer in respect of the Gas Supply and Emergency
Management Committee’s Report to Government.

No person, party, or entity listed or described below shall be liable, in negligence or howsoever, for any loss, damage, or liability sustained or incurred directly or indirectly on account of the Gas Supply and Emergency Management Committee Report, or any aspect thereof, or any assertion or representation therein, being wholly or partially inaccurate, incomplete, out-of-date, false, misleading or deceptive.
Person, party or entity covered by above disclaimer.
(Note: In the following list, an express or implied reference to a committee, office, officer, staff member, agent, employee, member, representative or position shall mean a current or former committee, office, officer, staff member, agent, employee, member, representative or position.)

    • The Office of Energy or any officer, employee or agent thereof;
    • The Minister for Energy or any staff member thereof;
    • Any member of the Gas Supply and Emergency Management Committee
      ("Committee") and their employees;
    • The Secretariat (of the Committee) or any staff member thereof;
    • The Co-ordinator of Energy or any staff member thereof;
    • The State of Western Australia or any agency, emanation or instrumentality
      thereof or any agent, member, officer, employee or representative of
      any of them; and
    • Any Western Australian statutory authority or any member, officer or employee
      thereof.

In addition, Apache Energy Limited does not agree with the estimates contained in the report as to the impacts of the supply disruptions, which have not been independently verified.

Consultants' Reports

Mitigation Summary Report – Evans & Peck.
Mitigation Full Report – Evans & Peck.
Gas Market Development Working Group Report – Marchment Hill Consulting.

Key Infrastructure Reports

Goldfields Gas Pipeline – APA Group

Varanus Island Domestic Gas Facilities – Apache Energy

Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline – DBP

Karratha Domestic Gas Facilities – North West Shelf Joint Venture

South West Gas Distribution Systems – WA Gas Networks

Gas Disruption Management

Draft “Westplan – Gas Supply Disruption”

Please note that this is not a formal Westplan under the State Emergency Management Act 2005 until ‘gas supply disruption’ is prescribed as a hazard, and the Office of Energy as the responsible Hazard Management Agency in the Emergency Management Regulations 2006, and the plan is endorsed by the State Emergency Management Committee.

National Energy Security Assessment

The Gas Supply and Emergency Management Committee’s response to the National Energy Security Assessment (NESA).