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Worley wins FEED contract for
Santos’ Bayu-Undan CCS project
PROJECTS WORLEY has been awarded a front-end engi- pipeline from hydrocarbons to CO2 service,
neering and design (FEED) contract for infra- Worley said. The company added that it would
structure at Santos’ planned Bayu-Undan carbon also provide FEED services for the life extension
capture and storage (CCS) project offshore of the facility and pipeline.
Timor-Leste. The Bayu-Undan CCS project is expected to
Bayu-Undan is a depleted gas and conden- store up to 10mn tonnes per year (tpy) of CO2,
sate field where production is stopping this year. which Worley said is equivalent to 1.5% of Aus-
Santos is proposing to repurpose the existing tralia’s annual CO2 emissions.
facilities at the field and use the reservoir for Barossa contains gas that is comparatively
storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Barossa high in CO2 compared with other projects in
gas project offshore neighbouring Australia, the region. Output from the project will be used
among other Australian projects. Developing a to feed the Darwin LNG export terminal. Santos
CCS project in Timor-Leste will not only help is aiming to bring Barossa online in 2025, and
Santos make use of existing infrastructure but is expects the Bayu-Undan CCS project to also be
also thought to be cheaper than building a simi- ready to enter service by the time the field starts
lar project in Australia itself. up.
According to a July 12 filing with the Aus- The award of the contract comes after Santos
tralian Securities Exchange (ASX), the contract said recently that it had entered the FEED phase
awarded to Worley covers FEED services for the of developing Bayu-Undan CCS. The FEED
Bayu-Undan offshore facilities and pipeline. This work also includes engineering and design for
includes the re-purposing of the Bayu-Undan additional CO2 processing capacity at Darwin
facility and the offshore section of the gas export LNG.
Czechia secures capacity at
Dutch LNG terminal
POLICY CZECHIA has secured through its state-owned would probably last until March next year.
energy company CEZ 3bn cubic metres of “Europe is currently trying to increase its gas
annual gas capacity via an LNG terminal in the import options from outside Russia. New LNG
Netherlands, said the Czech Industry Minister terminals are being built to receive gas from
Jozef Sikela. This will extend gas consumption overseas. Logically, there is now a great demand
in the Czech Republic by one and a half to two for LNG and the Czech Republic, which has no
months and will reduce dependence on Russian sea, needs to secure capacity in a coastal state …
gas by about a third. And this is what we have now succeeded in doing
The country’s gas storage facilities are now in co-operation with CEZ Group,” said Sikela,
about 77% full, and the gas in them would cover quoted by the Czech Radio.
consumption until about January 2023. Using
gas from the LNG terminal, the Czech Republic
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