Santos Ltd and its companions have shipped the primary cargo from the Darwin LNG life extension mission in Australia’s Northern Territory.
The inaugural quantity shall be delivered to the Sakai terminal in Japan on an ex-ship foundation, the Adelaide-based pure gas-focused producer stated in a web based assertion Tuesday.
The life extension mission, or the Barossa Gasoline Venture, entails the event of the Barossa discipline as a brand new supply for the liquefaction plant in Darwin, which started producing liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) 2006 and has an LNG capability of about 3.7 million metric tons a yr, in keeping with Santos.
- Advertisement -
Darwin LNG’s earlier supply discipline, Timor-Leste’s Bayu-Undan, stopped exporting gasoline to the ability late 2023 resulting from depletion, although Santos stated 2024 Bayu-Undan would proceed sending gasoline to the Northern Territory till the top of that yr. In its quarterly report July 16, 2025 Santos confirmed Bayu-Undan ceased manufacturing Could 2025.
The life extension mission began up roughly six months sooner than deliberate and inside finances, stated Santos, which introduced a closing funding determination (FID) on the Barossa Gasoline Venture March 30, 2021. The FID announcement pegged prices at $3.6 billion, making Barossa LNG the most important funding in Australia’s oil and gasoline sector then, in keeping with Santos. In accordance with a Santos replace June 18, 2025 funding within the mission reached $3.95 billion.
The early startup “is an impressive achievement for a mission of this scale and complexity within the international offshore upstream sector”, stated Santos managing director and chief govt Kevin Gallagher.
Gallagher famous Barossa LNG had “navigated via the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory approvals, authorized challenges and provide chain disruptions in the course of the building section”.
Japanese energy utility JERA Co Inc, one of many companions, stated individually on Tuesday in regards to the restart of Darwin LNG, “As power demand continues to rise throughout Asia, securing dependable and competitively priced LNG has develop into important for ongoing regional power stability. With the geographic proximity to Asia and a confirmed observe file as a dependable provider, Australia stays a strategic supply of LNG for the area”.
Ryosuke Tsugaru, JERA chief for low-carbon fuels, stated, “This milestone reinforces JERA’s place within the upstream LNG worth chain and underscores our function as a dependable power supplier for Japan and Asia”.
Santos introduced September 22, 2025 Barossa had began producing pure gasoline via floating manufacturing, storage and offloading vessel BW Opal and that Darwin LNG had acquired reauthorization from Australia’s Northern Territory.
Santos is operator within the Barossa Gasoline Venture with a 50 p.c stake. PRISM Power Worldwide Australia owns 37.5 p.c. Japanese energy utility JERA Co Inc has 12.5 p.c.
In one other mission, Santos stated in its quarterly report January 22 that section 1 of the Pikka oilfield growth in Alaska in the US was 98 p.c full, on observe to begin manufacturing this quarter.
Santos expects its manufacturing this yr to develop to 101-111 million barrels of oil equal (MMboe) in comparison with 87.7 MMboe in 2025.
Within the final three months of 2025 Santos’ output totaled 22.3 MMboe, up 5 p.c quarter-on-quarter. Full-year manufacturing was up one p.c from 2024, the quarterly report stated.
To contact the writer, e mail jov.onsat@rigzone.com
What do you assume? We’d love to listen to from you, be a part of the dialog on the
Rigzone Power Community.
The Rigzone Power Community is a brand new social expertise created for you and all power professionals to Communicate Up about our business, share data, join with friends and business insiders and interact in knowledgeable group that may empower your profession in power.
