Article by Adam Duckett
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A call has been issued for Santos to deliver projects that can offset the heavy carbon emissions from Barossa
SANTOS has sanctioned a US$3.6bn investment in the Barossa gas project off Australia’s Northern Territory, extending the life of the Darwin LNG plant and marking the largest investment in the country’s oil and gas sector since 2012. Concerns about the climate impacts of the project have prompted one group to label the project “a carbon bomb”.
The Barossa development includes a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, subsea production wells, supporting subsea infrastructure and a gas export pipeline tied into the existing Bayu-Undan-to-Darwin LNG pipeline. The Barossa field is located around 300 km north of Darwin and the first production of gas is expected in the first half of 2025.