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He said: “These are the final major facilities contracts for Barossa as we get closer to pushing the button on the project’s development in the second quarter.”
The Barossa project, which is located in petroleum permit NT/RL5 around 300 km offshore Darwin, consists of a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, six subsea production wells, sup- porting in-field subsea infrastructure and a gas export pipeline tied into the existing
Bayu-Undan to Darwin pipeline that sup- plies gas to Darwin LNG.
Santos said in October 2019 that the Barossa field was the lead candidate to backfill the 3.7mn tonne per year (tpy) Darwin LNG terminal once Bayu-Undan runs dry.
ConocoPhillips owns a 56.9% stake in Dar- win LNG and Bayu-Undan as well as a 40% stake in the Poseidon exploration project. The super-major has projected that Bayu-Undan will enter end of life status in 2022.™
Senex completes Roma North drilling, shifts to Atlas
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
AUSTRALIAN independent Senex Energy has announced that following the completion of its Roma North drilling campaign the company is re-mobilising its rig to Project Atlas. Both projects are located in Queensland State’s Surat Basin.
Senex said on March 2 that it had drilled 35 wells at Roma North at “industry leading cycle times and well costs”.
Managing director and CEO Ian Davies said production was nearing the Roma North gas plant’s initial capacity of 16 tera- joules per day (153.12mn cubic metres per year) and that the company was reviewing future drilling requirements.
With Roma North’s drilling campaign wrapped up, the company said it had moved Easternwell Rig 27 to 58-square km Project Atlas where drilling would resume this week. The campaign is slated for completion before June 30.
Senex said gas production from its Surat Basin was tracking towards an initial plateau production of 18 petajoules (468.87 mcm) per year and said it was reviewing whether it could
reach that figure with fewer wells than origi- nally planned.
Davies said: “We are now focused on com- pleting the Atlas drilling campaign by the end of FY2020. Atlas production continues to ramp, with 95% of expected volumes for calendar year 2020 contracted to high quality customers at fixed prices.”
Senex revealed earlier this year that Roma North produced 13.5 TJ (352,000 cubic metres) per day of gas in the October-December period, while Atlas’ output topped 6.5 TJ (169,000 cubic metres) per day. Atlas has five production trains, of which only two are online at present, and a peak production capacity of 15 PJ (390.73 mcm) per year. Project Atlas has 144 PJ (3.75bn cubic metres) of proven and probable reserves, accord- ing to Senex’s website. The company drilled 23 well during its initial campaign.
The company has already reached gas sales agreements for more than 32 PJ (833.55 mcm) with six customers. Senex has already started delivering gas to CleanCo, CSR and Orora.™
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