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Ranhill Worley to provide Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Indian LNG imports slump
the proposed Browse to
FEED for PTTEP's offshore Australia, as directed by the Australian 19% in August
North West Shelf (NWS) Project in
Malaysian gas project Department of Climate Change, Energy, the India’s LNG imports in August were 2.37
Environment and Water (DCCEEW).
bcm (1.74mn tonnes), down 18.9% year on
Bursa Malaysia-listed firm Ranhill Utilities The offshore area comprising the year, the country’s oil and gas ministry's
said Wednesday that its affiliate firm Brecknock, Calliance, and Torosa fields - Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell
Perunding Ranhill Worley had won a the Browse resource - sits in the offshore (PPAC) website reported on September 19.
contract with the Thai oil firm PTTEP to Browse Basin, around 425 kilometers north The imports were down 7.8% month on
provide front-end engineering and design of Broome in Western Australia. month.
(FEED) services for offshore facilities for The final EIS includes responses to The cumulative imports during the
SK410B Lang Lebah development project, comments received during the public April-August period, the first five months
offshore Sarawak Malaysia. consultation process held over an eight- of the 2022-2023 financial year, were 12.34
The contract was awarded to Perunding week period from December 2019 to bcm, down 10.2% year on year.
Ranhill Worley, a company, principally February 2020. The LNG imports last month cost
involved in the provision of engineering "As operator of the proposed Browse $1bn versus $1.2bn in August last year.
and design services of oil and gas facilities. to NWS Project, Woodside welcomes The import cost during April-August was
Ranhill Utilities, via its subsidiary Ranhill the publication of the final EIS as a key $5.6bn, up from $4.5bn in the same period
Worley, owns a 49.0 % equity interest in milestone for the project. The DCCEEW last year, PPAC said.
Perunding Ranhill Worley. will now prepare its recommendation report
The value of the FEED contract is 43.0 and provide it to the Minister," Woodside
million Malaysian Ringgit or around $9,48 said. Chinese LNG imports down
million. The contract and the scope of The proposed Browse to NWS Project
works under the contract for the project will would send feed gas from fields in the 28% in August
be carried out by Ranhill Worley. offshore Browse Basin to be processed at
The project is located in shallow waters, the NWS Project’s Karratha Gas Plant. Chinese LNG imports in August declined
approximately 90 kilometers offshore Browse and the NWS Project Extension are 28.1% year on year to 4.72mn tonnes,
Sarawak, covering an area of around 1,870 expected to contribute to our communities customs department data published on
square kilometers. for decades to come. September 18 showed.
PTTEP and its partner Petronas in According to Woodside, the proposed The cumulative LNG imports in the first
February 2021 said they'd made a large gas Browse to NWS Project could contribute to eight months of 2022 came in at 40.64mn
discovery at the Lang Lebah-2 well in the energy security in Western Australia and tonnes, down 21.3% year on year. China’s
block in the Asia Pacific region, with production pipeline gas imports last month rose 9%
Phongsthorn Thavisin, PTTEP CEO at capacity of 11.4 million tonnes per year year on year to 4.13mn tonnes, the data
the time, said the drilling result was "the (LNG, LPG and Domestic Gas). showed. The import volumes during the
largest-ever gas discovery by PTTEP." Woodside CEO Meg O'Neill said moving January-August period were up 10.6% yr/yr
Petronas said that the time that the into the assessment phase for the proposed to 30.40mn tonnes.
well had been tested and flowed at 50 project was a significant and positive step China last year imported a record 78.93mn
million cubic feet of gas per day with a in the regulatory approval process. “The tonnes of LNG, up 18.3% year on year,
significant amount of gas in place. This was final EIS provides comprehensive detail of customs department data published in
an appraisal drilling to confirm the upside potential environmental impacts, proposed January showed.
potential and to accelerate the development mitigations and management measures.
program. "The processing of Browse gas through
Back in 2019, Petronas and its partners the Karratha Gas Plant could provide Origin leaves Australia's
in Central Luconia Province drilled energy needed in Western Australia
commercially viable gas discovery through and overseas, while providing jobs and Beetaloo basin
the first exploration well, Lang Lebah- taxation revenue that support our host
1RDR2. communities,” she said. Origin Energy is diviesting its interest in
Key work activities continue in support the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo basin, as
of progress towards front-end engineering well as its upstream exploration permits not
Woodside releases EIS for design entry, Woodside said. related to Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG),
the company said on September 19.
The corresponding State Environmental
Browse to North West Shelf Review Document Response to Submissions with Tamboran (B1), an entity 50:50 owned
The company has signed agreements
will also be published once accepted by
(NWS) project the Western Australian Environmental by Sydney-listed Tamboran Resources and
its substantial shareholder, Bryan Sheffield,
Protection Authority, the company added.
Australian oil and gas company Woodside to divest its interest in the Beetaloo basin
on September 15 published the final for an upfront consideration of A$60mn

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