Woodside JV gets GHG assessment permit off Australia
SUMMARY
The permit contains the depleted Angel gas field.
By Shardul SharmaPOSTED IN:
A joint venture comprising Woodside Energy, BP, Japan Australia LNG (MIMI), Shell and Chevron has been awarded a greenhouse gas (GHG) assessment permit in the Northern Carnarvon basin off the coast of Western Australia, the companies said on September 1 in a joint statement.
The permit, G-10-AP, is located approximately 125 km northwest of Dampier and covers an area of 1775 km2. It contains the depleted Angel gas field. Woodside, BP, MIMI, Shell and Chevron will each hold a 20% participating interest in the permit, with Woodside as the operator.
“A multi-user carbon capture and storage (CCS) project near Karratha would be ideally located to aggregate emissions from various existing sources. It would also have the potential to facilitate the development of new lower-carbon industries, such as the production of hydrogen and ammonia, by providing a local solution for emissions,” the joint venture said.
The size of the CCS facility is subject to the completion of additional technical, regulatory and commercial studies, but is likely to have a processing capacity of up to 5mn metric tons/year of carbon dioxide.
Last month, a joint venture comprising Inpex, Woodside and TotalEnergies was awarded GHG storage permit G-7-AP in the Bonaparte basin.
