Simulated workplaceCAQA Gasline Networks is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
UEGCAQA GaslineSimulated workplace
Today at Gasline
9,400 km network length
  • Permit to Work Register8
  • HSE Incident and Hazard Register8
  • Field Work Orders8
  • Gas Escape and Leak Survey Log8
Simulated workplace
Gas distribution and network operations

Safe gas, delivered

CAQA Gasline Networks owns and operates a regulated natural gas distribution network that delivers gas to more than 240,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers across south-eastern and north-eastern Victoria.

Founded 1996212 staff across a control centre and three depotsHead office and control centre, Dandenong South, VictoriaWestern depot, North Geelong, Victoria
9,400 km
Network length
of polyethylene and steel mains
240,000+
Customers
connected supply points
30
Years operating
since the network was licensed in 1996
24 / 7
Emergency response
first responder on site within 60 minutes
Who we are

CAQA Gasline Networks, gas distribution and network operations

CAQA Gasline Networks owns and operates a regulated natural gas distribution network that delivers gas to more than 240,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers across south-eastern and north-eastern Victoria. The business builds and maintains polyethylene and steel mains, connects services to customer meters, operates district regulator stations and city gates, and responds to gas escapes and infrastructure emergencies around the clock. It also runs a small industrial gas cylinder filling and bulk transfer operation at the Traralgon depot, and is trialling the blending of green hydrogen into a section of its Wodonga network.

The business is organised around a 24 hour control centre in Dandenong South and three regional depots at North Geelong, Traralgon and Wodonga. The control centre monitors network pressure and flow through the SCADA system and dispatches field crews. Each depot houses construction crews, network maintenance technicians, metering staff and a first response roster. Field crews work a standard day shift with a rotating on-call emergency roster, and the control centre works three shifts across the week so that a qualified operator is always on desk.

Safety before supply

No job is so urgent that it cannot be done safely. If a task cannot be done to the procedure, the task stops.

Reliability

Customers expect gas at the burner tip every day. Planned work, good records and well maintained assets keep supply steady.

Competence

People only work within the scope of their current authorisation, and the business invests in training and reassessment.

Openness

Incidents, defects and mistakes are reported early and shared so that the whole network learns from them.

What we do

Services and operations

To deliver natural gas safely and reliably to every customer on the network while protecting the public, our people and the environment.

Network operations and control

Continuous monitoring and control of network pressure, flow and odourisation from the Dandenong South control centre, with SCADA alarms managed and field crews dispatched to every event.

Mains and services construction

Construction, laying and connection of polyethylene and steel distribution mains and customer services, including excavation, butt fusion, pressure testing and commissioning to the network standard.

Network maintenance and integrity

Planned maintenance of district regulators, city gates, valves, water bath heaters and cathodic protection systems, plus the cyclic leak survey program across the whole network.

Emergency response

A 24 hour first response service for reported gas escapes, third party damage and facility events, with site control, make safe, isolation and emergency repair under the permit system.

Metering and data services

Meter reading, meter exchange, data logger installation and fault finding for residential, commercial and industrial customers, feeding accurate consumption data to retailers.

Industrial gas and hydrogen operations

Cylinder filling by weight, bulk gas transfer and storage at the Traralgon depot, and the operation of an electrolyser and hydrogen injection skid on the Wodonga blending trial.

Clients and partners (all fictional)
Residential customers on the distribution networkCommercial and small business gas usersIndustrial process customers with metered high pressure supplyGas retailers and market participantsCouncils and road authorities working near the networkProperty developers requiring new estate reticulationResidential customers on the distribution networkCommercial and small business gas usersIndustrial process customers with metered high pressure supplyGas retailers and market participantsCouncils and road authorities working near the networkProperty developers requiring new estate reticulation

Notice board All notices

  • Safety Locate before you dig: contractor strike at Wodonga
    3 September 2026
  • Compliance Permit to Work Register audit results for August
    5 September 2026
  • Operations Hydrogen blending trial reaches 5 percent at Wodonga
    8 September 2026

Coming up Calendar

  • 15/09Cathodic protection annual survey, Morwell to Moe
    7:00 am, Princes Highway steel main, Traralgon depot
  • 17/09HSE committee meeting
    9:00 am, Training room, Dandenong South
  • 21/09Morwell valve replacement isolation
    6:30 am, Princes Highway service road, Morwell
  • 25/09Safety case review submissions due
    5:00 pm, HSE and Compliance
For trainers and assessors

Mapped to the Gas Industry Training Package

Every scenario lists the current units of competency and qualifications it supports, with assessor notes and a printable evidence summary. Use it with your own assessment tools or ask CAQA for a matched kit.

Training packageUEG release 4.0
Qualifications listed4 of 4 current
Units mapped35
Documents14