[1] It is operated by Santos Limited for the purpose of exploration and processing of natural gas found in and recovered from the Cooper and Eromanga Basins.

There are a number of partners and contractors on the site including Bureau Veritas, O&G Solutions, SGS, Gearhart, Broadspectrum, OneSteel, Origin Energy, Diversified Construction, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, ProTechnics a Division of Corelab, GPA Engineering, SAGE Automation and Cactus Wellhead.

[citation needed] The settlement is located on a low-lying plain amongst sand dunes at very little height above sea level.

[citation needed] All employees work on a fly in-fly out roster basis; there is no permanent resident population in Moomba.

[citation needed] Moomba has a sealed airstrip and 'camp' accommodation for its "fly-in, fly-out" residents who are, largely, Santos employees.

The New South Wales motoring body, NRMA warns travellers of the absence of public facilities at Moomba.

[10] A separate 659 kilometre liquids pipeline runs southwest to Port Bonython, South Australia for overseas export.