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businesses and workers. Sanjay Chowbey, President of Flowserve’s A ermarket Services & Solutions division, said, “ is agreement with Shell Australia will enable us to increase our employment of local and indigenous people, including skills training that can lead to opportunities for permanent employment.”
e Shell-operated Prelude FLNG facility is an o shore development, producing natural gas from a remote eld approximately 475
km north-northeast of the coastal town of Broome in Western Australia. e Prelude FLNG facility is scheduled to produce 3.6 million tons per annum (mtpa) of LNG, 1.3 mtpa of condensate and 0.4 mtpa of lique ed petroleum gas (LPG). e Prelude FLNG facility is operated by Shell in a joint venture with INPEX Corporation, 17.5%; Korea
Gas Corporation (KOGAS), 10%; and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), 5%.
FLOWSERVE, August 12, 2019
Chevron starts up Gorgon CO2 injection project
Chevron Australia and the Gorgon Joint Venture participants today announced the safe startup and operation of the carbon dioxide injection system at the Chevron- led Gorgon natural gas facility on Barrow Island, o the northwest coast of Western Australia.
Chevron Australia managing director Al Williams said, “We are pleased to reach the rst milestone of safely starting the operation of the Gorgon carbon dioxide injection system, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas mitigation projects ever undertaken by industry.
“ is achievement is the result of
strong collaboration across industry and governments and supports our objective of providing a ordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy essential to our modern lives.
Williams added, “We are monitoring system performance and plan to safely ramp up injection volumes over the coming months as we bring online processing facilities.”
Once fully operational, the carbon
dioxide injection facility will reduce Gorgon’s greenhouse gas emissions by about 40 percent, or more than 100 million tonnes over the life of the injection project.
e Gorgon facility incorporates many leading design features aimed at maximising energy e ciency and minimising greenhouse gas emissions. In steady-state operations, Gorgon is anticipated to have the lowest greenhouse gas emissions intensity of any LNG project in Australia.
CHEVRON, August 8, 2019
Strike updates on Wagina gas discovery
Strike Energy is pleased to announce an upgraded view of the Wagina sandstone conventional gas discovery at West Erregulla-2, which was announced on the 1st August 2019.
Further analysis of the logs has indicated an improved net reservoir and implies a discovery analogous to the Beharra Springs gas elds which are located only 9km from EP469 (West Erregulla).
Further interpretation of the wireline logs has been undertaken using proven regional cut-offs in the petrophysical analysis, as taken from fields such as Beharra Springs. This has increased the interpreted net reservoir to at least 10.2 metres across the Wagina sandstone with porosities up to 14%. This net reservoir can be subdivided into a higher quality upper zone, and a more dispersed lower porosity zone.
Drilling observations, including gas ared to surface through the upper part of the Wagina formation, con rms that the reservoir pressure is in excess of 6,800 psia. is overpressure in conjunction with the inferred reservoir properties support the potential
for material ow rates when the formation is subject to a future production test.
Since the discovery announcement, additional gas bearing Wagina sands have
been encountered in the production hole section before reaching the Carynginia shale. Subject to logging, these are expected to add a further 5 metres to the previously advised gross gas column, bringing it to 79 metres in total.
STRIKE ENERGY, August 12, 2019
Buru Energy updates on Adoxa 1 drilling
Buru Energy provides the following update on operations at the Adoxa 1 exploration well as at 0600 hours ursday 8 August 2019. Buru Energy and Roc Oil (Canning) Pty Ltd each have a 50% equity interest in the Adoxa 1 well.
Since the last report, the well has been drilled ahead in 152 mm (6 inch) hole from 1,609 metres to a current depth of 1,916 metres.
e top of the Anderson Formation objective is interpreted to have been encountered at 1,730 metres measured depth. From a subsequent drilling break at 1,794.5 metres to the current depth a number of individual sand bodies have exhibited hydrocarbon shows described as fair to poor in cuttings samples.
e signi cance of these hydrocarbon indications and the previously encountered oil shows is di cult to determine from the current information and will be further evaluated with wireline logs at total depth. BURU ENERGY, August 9, 2019
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