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Woodside receives key primary approvals
for Scarborough project
PROJECTS WOODSIDE said on April 6 that it had received floating production unit (FPU) at the field with
two key primary approvals for its Scarborough eight wells drilled in the initial phase and 13 wells
gas project from the federal Australian gov- drilled over Scarborough’s lifetime. The gas will
ernment and the state government of Western be transported to Pluto LNG via a new trunkline
Australia. with a length of around 430 km.
The approvals cover a licence to build and McDermott has been selected as the contrac-
operate an offshore pipeline, as well as the field tor for the FPU, while Subsea Integration Alli-
development plan for Scarborough. Approval ance is the key contractor for subsea hardware,
of the field development plan allows Woodside risers and flowlines, Valaris for drilling, Euro-
to begin gas recovery operations from two pipe for the trunkline pipe and Saipem for the
Petroleum Production Licences, WA-61-L and trunkline installation.
WA-62-L. According to Woodside’s announcement,
Gas from Scarborough will be used as feed- Scarborough gas contains only 0.1% car-
stock for the Pluto LNG plant, where Woodside bon dioxide (CO2) and after being processed
is also adding a second liquefaction train. The through Pluto Train 2 it will be one of the low-
company anticipates producing LNG using gas est carbon intensity sources of LNG delivered to
from Scarborough from 2026. Woodside and its customers in North Asia,
partner in the Scarborough joint venture, BHP, Woodside’s CEO, Meg O’Neill, said the
made the final investment decision (FID) on the pipeline licence and field development plan
Scarborough field and Pluto Train 2 in Novem- were among the final primary state and federal
ber 2021. The development is estimated to cost approvals required to develop the Scarborough
$12bn. resource.
The Scarborough field is located roughly The announcement comes as Woodside
375 km offshore Western Australia and is esti- shareholders are preparing to vote on a proposed
mated to contain 11.1 trillion cubic feet (314bn merger between the company and BHP’s oil and
cubic metres) of dry gas. Woodside will install a gas business next month.
Shell resumes LNG shipments from
Australia’s Prelude FLNG
PROJECTS SHELL said in a brief statement on April 11 that recover essential power and associated essential
it had resumed shipping cargoes from its Prelude services following a loss of power, and that the
floating LNG (FLNG) facility offshore the north safety systems and essential support systems
coast of Western Australia. operate to maintain safety of personnel,” Shell
The facility had been offline for four months stated this week.
following a major power failure. A Shell spokes- The outage is the latest in a series of mis-
person confirmed to Reuters that a cargo had haps for Prelude, which is the world’s largest
been loaded, leaving the terminal on April 10, FLNG vessel and demonstrates the complexity
but did not disclose the destination. involved in operating such offshore megapro-
Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum jects. The facility was previously offline for most
Safety and Environmental Management Author- of 2020 owing to electrical problems, having only
ity (NOPSEMA), the offshore security regulator, entered service in 2019 after delays to its initial
authorised the resumption of shipments from start-up date.
Prelude last month. This came after NOPSEMA Shell operates Prelude with a 67.5% interest.
had ordered in December 2021 that the facility Asian companies own the remainder of the pro-
remain offline until Shell had demonstrated that ject – Japan’s Inpex holds a 17.5% stake, Taiwan’s
it had made certain required safety improve- CPC owns 5% and Korea Gas (KOGAS) holds
ments. The super-major has now met the regula- the remaining 10%. The facility has a produc-
tor’s requirements. tion capacity of 5.3mn tonnes per year of liquids,
“Shell notes the announcement from NOP- including 3.6mn tpy of LNG, 1.3mn tpy of con-
SEMA confirming Direction 1860 has been densate and 400,000 tpy of liquefied petroleum
closed following Shell’s demonstration to NOP- gas (LPG).
SEMA’s satisfaction that the facility can safely
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