Closure progress at Gove
  • Gove’s Refinery demolition project in the Northern Territory is Australia’s largest demolition activity. The refinery is being dismantled and in total, 142,000 tonnes of scrap steel will be progressively shipped for recycling.
  • Part of the Gove Refinery is demolished by teams from contract partner Liberty Industrial. Scrap steel from the demolition will be shipped to a recycling plant and turned into steel wire, bar and beam stock and sold to industry.
  • A truck loaded with debris from Gove’s refinery demolition drives to the ship, bound for a Malaysian recycling plant. It takes 6 trucks working 24 hours a day for 6 days to load the 15,000 tonnes of steel cargo.
  • At our recently upgraded wharf in Gove, a trailer load of steel is lowered into a container ship. The ship will transport 15,000 tonnes of scrap steel to a recycling facility in Malaysia.
  • One of 4 loading bays in the container ship is loaded with scrap steel from the Gove refinery project, the largest demolition activity in the country. In total, the equivalent of 21 Eiffel towers worth of steel will be recycled.
  • Gove’s refinery demolition will produce more than 142,000 tonnes of scrap steel. It will take around 10 shipments to transport it for recycling back into steel wire, bar and beam stock.
  • A fully laden container ship ready to leave our wharf at Gove, bound for a recycling plant in Malaysia. On board, there’s around 15,000 tonnes of scrap steel from our refinery demolition project.

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