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US-owned resource company goes for green light to frack Australia’s north-west We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Environmental groups are revving up opposition to the first company to take advantage of Western Australia lifting its fracking ban, despite traditional owners supporting the venture. Bennett Resources, owned by Texan company Black Mountain, wants its Valhalla gas prospect in the Kimberley to eventually supply the export market, or the energy-hungry east coast market, potentially via the...

Normal text size Very large text size The news from Barrow Island was not good. Sand had clogged a well sunk as part of Chevron’s project to bury emissions from its Gorgon gas project off the north coast of Western Australia. This was not a little problem. It is hard to exaggerate the significance of Chevron’s project to proponents of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Chevron is Australia’s sixth-largest greenhouse gas emitter and its Gorgon project is WA’s second-highest emitting project, estimated to put out almost 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year at full production.

Greenhouse gas emissions from Chevron’s Gorgon LNG facility have increased because the company’s carbon capture system is not working properly, meaning more carbon dioxide is being vented into the atmosphere. Environment groups have blasted the Western Australian government for not imposing penalties on the energy company after documents revealed sand was clogging the injection system designed to bury up to 4m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year...

Carbon capture is a key technology the federal government hopes will control Australia's emissions, but Chevron's road-test in WA's north is proving very rocky.

13 January 2021 Sand has a habit of getting into all the worst places, as major gas producer Chevron has discovered, with sand hampering the operation of Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project, which could result in increased greenhouse gas emissions from the Gorgon LNG project. The Gorgon LNG project, located off the Western Australian coast, is set to cut back the amount of carbon dioxide it will attempt to store under the sea, after pumping equipment experienced significant issues with sand contamination. Documents obtained by independent energy news outlet Boiling C...