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Santos takes FID on Darwin Pipeline

Duplication Project

PROJECTS AUSTRALIA’S Santos Ltd has taken a final dioxide per annum, equivalent to about 1.5%
investment decision (FID) to proceed with of Australia’s carbon emissions each year from
the Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project. The other projects, customers and other hard-to-
scheme will extend the Barossa gas export pipe- abate industries, and has the potential to be the
line to the Darwin LNG facility and allow for largest CCS project in the world,” Gallagher said.
the repurposing of the Bayu-Undan to Darwin Santos has expressed its commitment to net-
pipeline that currently carries natural gas from zero emissions for its operations before 2050.
offshore Timor-Leste to the Santos-operated In February this year, Santos announced that
LNG plant. it had booked carbon dioxide storage in the
The project is due to get underway in 2023 depleted gas reservoirs of the Cooper Basin in
at a cost of $311mn and begin to deliver natural South Australia. The storage resource will hold
gas from the offshore Barossa field during the 100mn tonnes of CO2 and serve the Moomba
first half of 2025. The Bayu-Undan, which has CCS project. Santos and partner Beach Energy
been producing oil and gas for the island nation plan to capture 1.7mn tonnes per year (tpy) of
since 2006, is expected to expire in 2023. For that CO2, beginning in 2024.
reason, Timor-Leste is keen to use the field for The new pipeline duplication project would
carbon dioxide storage to maintain a revenue see CO2 being stripped out of the Barossa gas
stream. at the Darwin LNG plant and then transported
Kevin Gallagher, CEO and managing direc- through a new 120-km pipeline that would link
tor of Santos, said in a statement that the FID with the existing Bayu-Undan pipeline and move
would promote sustainable development and the CO2 another 380 km to the Bayu-Undan res-
create jobs in Australia’s Northern Territory and ervoir. A FID for the Bayu-Undan CCS project is
Timor-Leste while building momentum for a expected in 2023.
carbon deduction solution for the entire region. Santos’ partners in the Barossa project are
The pipeline project will allow Barossa to be South Korea’s SK E&S and Japan’s JERA.™
carbon capture and storage (CCS) ready, he said.
“The Bayu-Undan project has the potential to
capture and store up to 10mn tonnes of carbon

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