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Coleman also said that the Browse joint venture had approved the basis of design for the Browse-to- North West Shelf (NWS) project in May and had taken “further steps” to secure key regulatory and environmental approvals for the development.
After scrapping two plans to develop the Browse eld, rst via an onshore plant and then by a oating lique ed natural gas (FLNG) vessel, the company now intends to connect the eld to the existing NWS facility via a pipeline.
However, the central government is beginning to lose patience over how long the Browse development is taking, Federal
Resources Minister Matt Canavan told 6PR radio on July 19.
“ is has been a 15-year process,” the minister said, adding: “We’re coming very close to the end of a retention lease they have over this area and I’ve been putting a lot of pressure on all the joint venture partners to make this happen now. It is a bit of a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ situation.”
Woodside said on July 22 that the joint ven- ture was “aligned on being ready” to commence front-end engineering design (FEED) work by the end of this year and was aiming to make a nal investment decision (FID) in late 2020.™
APLNG, Armour win Queensland block
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
THE Queensland government has formally awarded the ATP2046 block to the Australia Paci c LNG (APLNG) and Armour Energy joint venture, the latter company revealed on July 18.
e 18-square km coal-bed methane (CBM) play, which is located 22km south-west of Chin- chilla and adjoins APLNG’s Talinga project, has been earmarked as an exclusive source of gas for domestic industrial consumers.
While APLNG operates the joint venture with a 90% stake, both parties will be able to mar- ket their share of gas production independently.
Armour said it expected the block’s gas pro- duction would have an “existing path to market”, given ATP2046’s close proximity to APLNG’s Talinga Gas Plant.
The junior partner, which anticipates first gas from the block by mid-2021, said it was in the process of identifying potential customers that satisfy the bid- ding process’s restrictive marketing conditions.
In a July 19 statement, the Queensland gov- ernment praised the joint venture’s gas supply deals with explosives manufacturer Orica and packaging maker Orora that were announced in early July.
Queensland Mines Minister Anthony Lyn- ham said: “ e [Queensland] government set aside land for potential gas producers to supply manufacturers and this initiative is paying o for manufacturing workers. Queensland continues to do the heavy li ing when it comes to gas sup- ply for eastern Australia, and energy policy for the nation.”
e local government’s statement noted that Queensland had delivered around 25% of the gas that owed to the East Coast gas market.
APLNG revealed on July 4 that it had agreed to supply 10.2 petajoules (265.69mn cubic metres) of gas to Orica over four years starting from 2021, while Orora will receive 6 PJ (156.29 mcm) over three years starting from 2023.
Last week’s government statement quoted APLNG CEO Warwick King as saying: “APLNG is proud to be supporting manufac- turing jobs in Australia through the supply of gas to Australian manufacturers, with the earliest of a number of multi-year contracts beginning in 2020. We will be able to develop this block efficiently given its proximity to existing infrastructure.”™
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