.SantosLtd is facing headwinds at its Barossa LNG project, after the Federal Court set aside a nopsema drilling approval environment resources energy gas investment Darwin TiwiIslands FirstNations
PERTH – Oil and gas major Santos is facing headwinds at its Barossa gas project, after the Federal Court on Wednesday set aside the acceptance by the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority of an environmental plan covering the drilling and completion activities in relation to the Barossa gas project.
“Similarly, Santos had engaged about the proposed drilling activities with the Northern Land Council, the Native Title representative body for the Tiwi Islands. Nopsema had accepted our efforts to consult with Tiwi Islanders in accordance with the Regulations when it decided to accept the Environment Plan for those activities,” the company said in a statement.
Santos said that the now-suspended drilling activities were not on the critical path for the project and that the company had headroom in the project cost contingency. The Barossa project comprises a floating production, storage and offloading vessel, subsea production wells, supporting subsea infrastructure and a gas export pipeline tied into the existing Bayu-Undan to Darwin LNG pipeline.