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North West Shelf

Overview
Northwest Shelf (NWS) condensate is produced in Northwest Australia. The cargo sizes range from 300 to 750 thousand barrels with a maximum ship size up to 110,000 DWT. The cargoes load from the terminal at Dampier. Typically, the cargoes are sold with pricing based off of the APPI (Asian Petroleum Price Index) NWSC quotes. The production rate is approximately 80 to 100 thousand barrels per day.

Whole Crude Properties *
PropertyMeasuredBlended
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Gravity, API°60.361.2
Gravity SG0.73770.7344
Sulfur, wt%0.010.01
Total Nitrogen, ppm 10
Hydrogen, wt% 15.3
Acid Number, mg KOH/g0.020.02
Pour Point, °F / °C60 / 16-60 / -51
Charact. Factor (K-FACTOR) 12.3
Viscosity, cSt at 40°C (104°F)0.59 
Viscosity, cSt at 50°C (122°F)0.560.56
Vanadium, ppm 0.016
Nickel, ppm 0.016
MCR, wt% 0.009
Ramsbottom Carbon, wt% 0.008
Asphaltenes, (H.C7) wt% 0.003

* Disclaimer
While we believe that this assay is representative of the expected commercial crude, it does not guarantee production quality, and users are solely responsible for their use of the assay. No warranties are given regarding the assay accuracy or any results from its use. Chevron does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the foregoing opinion, information or data in this site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, results, use, quality, reliability, or otherwise.

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North West Shelf Assay Data
The following links provide you with assay data tables (disclaimer) for various properties across a standard set of cuts, as well as a distillation summary
in °F and °C.

This is only a partial assay, if you require further data please contact us.

 Assay [PDF, 68kb]
 Assay [Excel, 33kb]
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