Otway Basin boost
May 17 (LNGJ) - Beach Energy, the company involved in the Waitsia gas development and LNG project in the Perth Basin of Western Australia, has also progressed with new gas wells connected to the Otway Gas Plant in the southern Australian state of Victoria.
The company said it had connected two more gas wells in the offshore Otway Basin to the Otway Gas Plant and was now delivering additional gas into the Australian East Coast domestic gas market. “Four of the six Otway development wells that were drilled as part of the major drilling campaign are now connected,” Beach said. The company added that it was reviewing its preferred approach to connecting the final two wells, which will require either the repair or replacement of a flowline.
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Beach Energy, the Australian exploration and production company set to become the nation’s newest LNG exporter in 2023, said it was continuing to improve natural gas assets at home around the Otway Basin offshore in south Australia and in New Zealand in the Taranaki Basin.
