RE: Bayu Undan22 Mar 2023 18:41
Agree FL
news sooner would be good, can't believe they are still stringing it out, the main excuse
over the years, was the 3000m+ deep trench , to cross with the pipeline to the Island, it
also a bit lame, as Conoco back in the 90's also did studies for Bayu-Undan to go to the
Island, near Bettano , the site of the Islands Oil refinery.
Conoco came up with multiple plans, the most feasible being, some fine innovation, with
a SUSPENDED pipeline, deep enough to be below Shipping traffic but either side of the
trench level with the seabed.
So they have known it can be done, with the will , for a long time, like Woodside , in the
end Conoco shareholders won out and decided it was an unnecessary risk at extra cost
so Conoco built the pipe to Darwin instead.
The main problem not so much the depth of the trench, it is the official geological seabed
movement of 4 metres, that will occur during a 30 year operational lifespan of the field.
Modern adjustable , lightweight materials , make it even more feasible today. GLA
Tomorrows another day