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Scarborough plans move ahead
The Scarborough gas eld will be developed to link to the Pluto LNG plant.
AUSTRALIA
WOODSIDE Petroleum has submitted its o - shore project proposal (OPP) on its Scarborough gas eld, o shore Australia, which is to be devel- oped through a link to the Pluto LNG plant. e OPP is open to public comments from July 5 to August 30.
The company submitted the OPP to the National O shore Petroleum Safety and Envi- ronment Management Authority (NOPSEMA), in line with the O shore Petroleum and Green- house Gas Storage (Environment) Regulations 2009.
Scarborough is situated 375km o the Burrup Peninsula, in a cluster with the North Scarbor- ough, ebe and Jupiter gas elds. e area is covered by the WA-1-R, WA-62-R, WA-61-R and WA-63-R licences.
e plan is for a 430-km export pipeline to the onshore liquefaction plant, where a second train would also be built. Developing the eld would involve seven wells tied to a oating production unit (FPU), in around 900 metres of water.
A nal investment decision (FID) is targeted for 2020, with start-up in 2023. Drilling would begin in 2020, with the trunkline installed in 2020 and the FPU in 2023. e rst phase of
development would cover Scarborough and North Scarborough, with the second two elds having potential future tiebacks, perhaps in 2025. Decommissioning is projected to begin in 2055.
Woodside believes the Greater Scarborough area holds 260.5bn cubic metres of gas, of which 207bn cm lies in the Scarborough eld.
e company has not determined the pre- cise size of the second Pluto LNG train, but has suggested it may be 4-5mn tonnes per year. e existing train has 4.9mn tpy of capacity and started up in 2012. Woodside bought out Exxon- Mobil from the Scarborough area in 2018, also becoming the operator.
In April, Woodside struck a preliminary agreement on the supply of 1mn tpy to China’s ENN Group for 10 years, starting in 2025. is would be driven by the Scarborough and Pluto LNG projects.
Woodside announced the opening of a truck-loading facility at Pluto LNG in April. e Australian major is working on interim plans for Pluto, involving the development of the Pyxis and Pluto North in ll wells, which should reach FID by late 2019.™
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