Good point Sailshack. Ironic hey!!
This is a Natural Gas Project - for the foreseeable future, Natural Gas will be part of our staple diet for cooking, heating, and hot water, plus a little bit of electricity generation, and industrial use.
Curtis Island is essentially an export facility. The gas gets shipped anywhere in the world, however due to our geographic locality, the vast majority of the gas ends up in greater Asia, like Japan, Korea, China, etc, etc.
If Australia didn't participate in the Gas Business, it would just mean that America, Alaska, Middle East, Africa, Russia, etc, would end up filling that "void" in the international market.
I don't think Curtis Island has any Light Crude facilities, as it is mostly the final treatment of the coal seam methane. However, other LNG (Gas) Facilities / Gas Fields usually have both Gas and Light Crude. Money money money... !!
One of the main problems is that most of use are NOT ready to cut ourselves off from the "Grids".... Electricity, Gas, Petrol... Sit at home, freezing in the dark, without a TV or computer, no car, and candle lights, reading books... !!
- BAD 
