Woodside is proposing to develop the Scarborough resource with 12 subsea, high-rate gas wells tied back to a semi-submersible platform moored in 900 m of water.
[2] The Scarborough resource has been fully appraised and the reservoir consists of excellent quality sands which support recoverable volumes in excess of 0.5 Tcf per well.
[2] However, sources other than Woodside have contradicted this finding and established that the field would result in an additional 1.6 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over its lifetime - the equivalent of 15 coal fired power plants.
Woodside's ongoing subsea development programs in the North West Shelf and Exmouth area provide contemporary analogues for cost and execution schedule estimates.
[8] Alignment of Woodside's equity in both the upstream Scarborough resource and downstream Pluto LNG infrastructure provides for greater control and certainty of development.
Woodside can realise the value from development of the material unallocated 7.3 Tcf (2C, 100%) Scarborough gas field through a lower-cost brownfield expansion of our high-reliability Pluto LNG facility.
[2] The current cost estimates are subject to ongoing legal and environmental challenges, including a case before the Supreme Court of Western Australia [9] set to be heard later in 2021.