Chevron Australia managing director Nigel Hearne has proposed a major shift in the development of WA's offshore gas reserves, suggesting the industry should collaborate to build a multi-user pipeline to be shared by multiple LNG producers.
Consulting group Energy Quest has cast doubt over the long-held expectation that Australia will overtake Qatar as the world's largest LNG producer, in part because of the anticipated decline in production at Woodside Petroleum's North West Shelf project.
A tieback of the Scarborough field into the Pluto LNG plant could well be the next major energy development in Western Australia, after Woodside Petroleum announced a deal to increase its stake in the field.
Some of the North West Shelf Venture partners might either sell their stake in the operation or take an equity interest in potential projects such as Browse as one potential solution to find backfill liquids for Karratha gas plant in the next decade, according to a report by Wood Mackenzie.
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