Burrup Peninsula was named after Mount Burrup in 1979 by Woodside Petroleum Pty Ltd during the planning stage of the North West Shelf Gas Project, whose onshore operations are located on the peninsula.
Mount Burrup was named by the government surveyor FS Brockman after Henry Wood Burrup, one of two men mysteriously murdered at the union bank in Roebourne in 1885.
The Northwest Shelf Gas Project is the largest resource project ever undertaken in Australia. Gas is drilled at an offshore platform 130 kilometres north of Dampier and piped to the onshore treatment plant on the Burrup Peninsula. From here the gas is carried in a one thousand four hundred and fifty kilometre pipeline to domestic and industrial gas users in the south of the State.
Construction has now been completed in the Liquefield Natural Gas (LNG) phase of the project which involves the export of LNG gas to Japan, which commenced in October 1989. King Bay Supply Base services the offshore operations and the onshore treatment plant.
Burrup Lookout overlooks the north west shelf onshore operations on the Burrup near to the visitors centre offering a great view at night.
All roads on the Burrup Peninsula are for public use except beyond security gates.
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