LNG News Editor:
The Supreme Court of Western Australia has dismissed two proceedings brought against the Chairman of the state’s Environmental Protection Authority challenging the Pluto LNG and Karratha Gas Plant environmental approvals made in 2019.
The proceedings were commenced by the Conservation Council of Western Australia (CCWA).
Welcomed
“Woodside welcomes the Court’s decisions and continues to progress the Scarborough and Pluto Train 2 projects and the start-up of the Pluto-KGP Interconnector,” said the Perth-based company.
Woodside notes that the CCWA had commenced separate Supreme Court proceedings in November 2021 challenging the Pluto Train 2 project works approval.
“A hearing date is yet to be set,” said Woodside, which took a positive final investment decision on the 22nd of November 2021 on the overall Scarborough-Pluto project set to cost around US$12-billion.
The Pluto LNG onshore processing facility is located near Karratha in the northwest of Western Australia and the first cargo from the single-Train facility was delivered in 2012.
Woodside’s Pluto feed-gas supplies come from the Pluto and Xena gas fields. The Scarborough field is enabling the development of the second liquefaction Train at the Pluto facility.
The second Train will have 5 million tonnes per annum of output, and take total nameplate capacity to 9.2 MTPA.
The Scarborough field is located about 375 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia and is estimated to contain 11.1 trillion cubic feet of dry gas.
Development of Scarborough will include the installation of a floating production unit (FPU) with eight wells drilled in the initial phase and 13 wells drilled over the life of the Scarborough field.
The gas will be transported to Pluto LNG through a new trunkline of 430km.
