May 31 (LNGJ) - Woodside Energy, the Australian operator of the North West Shelf and Pluto LNG export projects, has completed the award of all major contracts for the decommissioning of subsea infrastructure at the Enfield, Griffin, Stybarrow and Echo Yodel oil and gas fields offshore Western Australia.
“The upcoming work will follow successful decommissioning activities which have been underway at the Enfield and Balnaves fields since the first quarter of 2022,” said Woodside. “Specialist contractors engaged to undertake activities during the subsea decommissioning campaign include TechnipFMC, Heerema, McDermott, Fugro, DOF and McMahon. A contract for the permanent plug and abandonment of wells in the Stybarrow field has also been awarded to Transocean,” Woodside added.
Santos, the Asia-Pacific LNG shareholder and operator and Western Australia’s biggest domestic natural gas supplier, has overhauled the company into two divisions and said in an investor day briefing that activism and increased regulation had delayed timely investment in new fuel supplies.
Australian LNG operator Santos said it made a significant discovery in the Pavo-1 exploration well, located 46 kilometres east of the existing Dorado field in the Bedout Sub-Basin offshore Western Australia and is the first find made since its takeover of Oil Search.
Woodside Petroleum, the leading LNG plant operator in Western Australian, has named the new executive leadership team in the run-up to the completion in the second quarter of Woodside’s merger with the spun-off oil and gas business of Anglo-Australian commodities company BHP.