After six years of assessment and appeals, this is a "critical" step in the approvals process to underpin the ongoing operation of the North West Shelf project so it can ...
Since commencing operations in 1984, the North West Shelf project has supplied more than 6,000 petajoules of domestic gas, powering homes and industry in Western Australia, according to Woodside.
Declining supplies
In August, Woodside said it was preparing to shut one of the five trains at its North West Shelf LNG terminal due to declining natural gas supplies.
The plant has five LNG trains, launched between 1989 and 2008, with a capacity of 16.9 million tonnes per year and most of these volumes supply customers in Japan.
In September 2022, the Woodside-operated Karratha gas plant, part of the North West Shelf project, shipped its 6000th cargo of LNG.
The facility also has domestic gas trains, condensate stabilization units, and LPG units.
Australia’s oldest LNG plant has been liquefying gas from fields located off the north-west coast of Australia since 1989.
However, these fields are slowly running out of gas and the project is now shifting its focus towards a different business model aimed at processing gas from third parties.
Back in 2022, Woodside started sending gas from its Pluto offshore field to the LNG plant at Karratha.
This accelerated production of Pluto gas followed the start-up of the Pluto-KGP interconnector.
Woodside operates both the NWS and Pluto LNG facilities. Its partners in NWS include BP, Chevron, Japan Australia LNG, and Shell.
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