Under the five-year, $A10 million managed services contract, Motorola will manage and operate the communications network for the Queensland Curtis LNG project’s main gas compression sites, the upstream control room in Chinchilla and, from January 1 2015, the midstream LNG plant on Curtis Island near Gladstone.

The contract provides for service performance and network uptime guarantees, ensuring radio services for operations and emergency response management remain uninterrupted.

Motorola will manage all in-field wireless communications from its network operations centre in Melbourne and provide support services on site.

The contract also includes a managed location service that monitors the location of all employees and contractors on site to enable safer working conditions.

The communications systems provider has been working with QGC on the deployment of the microwave and 33-site digital radio system since 2011.

Late last year it announced the completion of the $32 million network, which is one of the largest terrestrial trunked radio – or TETRA for short – wireless networks in Australia.

The microwave and TETRA telecommunications infrastructure includes vehicle terminals with GPS tracking, hand-held terminals, desk terminals, dispatcher consoles and a voice recording facility.

The backbone microwave network is supporting closed circuit television cameras in remote areas as well as operational functions such as telemetry, email, telephony and printing.