Browse FLNG Terminal

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Browse FLNG Terminal is a proposed floating LNG terminal in Western Australia, Australia.

Location

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Project Details

• Operator: Woodside Energy
• Owner: Woodside Energy (30.6%), BP (44.33%), Japan Australia LNG Pty Ltd (MiMi)(14.4%), PetroChina (10.67%)
• Parent company: Woodside Energy (30.6%), BP (44.33%), Mitsubishi (7.2%), Mitsui (7.2%), PetroChina (10.67%)
• Vessel:
• Vessel operator:
• Vessel owner:
• Vessel parent company:
• Location: Broome, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia
• Coordinates: -17.961944, 122.236111 (approximate)
• Capacity: 11.4 mtpa total
• Trains: 2
• Status: Proposed
• Type: Export
• Start year: 2023
• Cost: US$20.5 billion
• Financing:
• FID status: pre-FID
• Associated infrastructure:

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

Browse FLNG Terminal is a proposed LNG terminal in the Dampier Peninsula, in Kimberley, Western Australia.

The terminal is proposed for construction at James Price Point, 52 kilometres (32 mi) North of Broome on the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. The onshore project was abandoned after Australia's rising gas costs made the project unviable. In 2013 the project was to be developed as a floating LNG facility with minimal construction work to be undertaken in Australia.

The Browse FLNG partners put the $30 billion Browse floating LNG project on hold in 2016. In April 2019 it was reported that Woodside had revived the proposal and planned to complete the terminal by 2023. In February 2020, it was reported that the final investment decision (FID) for the now estimated US$20.5 billion project was being pushed out to late 2021 having previously been foreseen for late 2020. The implications of the March 2020 collapse in oil prices lead a senior executive of Woodside Petroleum to concede to reporters that the company was taking a "real hard look" at the prospects for its business, prompting further speculation that the company could be reconsidering its plans to go ahead with the Browse LNG terminal project as well as its proposed Scarborough LNG Terminal.

In March 2020, Woodside announced that it was delaying the FID for the Browse FLNG Terminal as part of a package of spending cutbacks estimated at US$32 billion it had been compelled to make owing to its plunging stock-market value brought about by turmoil in the oil and gas markets which has been exacerbated by the global coronavirus pandemic.

In April 2021, The Australian Financial Review reported that Woodside's troubled Scarborough LNG Terminal may reach FID in the second half of 2021 and that FID on the Browse project was still possible, if less likely.

In April 2023, Woodside's CEO said to Reuters that talks with the owners of the North West Shelf LNG Terminal over a Browse gas processing deal were underway again after a pause during the pandemic. The same month, Shell signed an agreement to sell BP its 27% stake in the Browse gas project.

In November 2023, Shell has completed the sale of its 27% stake to BP.

In March 2024, it was reported that front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase remained in limbo as high capital costs and project complexities persist, making it unlikely that the project would enter the FEED phase this year.

In April 2024, however, it was reported that Woodside was performing pre-FEED engineering work in Norway on the two floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSO).

Opposition

Several Aboriginal groups claim ownership over the Dampier Peninsula including the Goolarabooloo, Jabirr Jabirr, Ngumbarl, Nimanbur, and Nyul Nyul.

In 2011 the Jabirr Jabirr negotiated the Browse LNG land access agreements with the Woodside owners and the Western Australian government. The Jabirr Jabirr leaders argued that these agreements $1.5 billion worth of benefits were desperately needed for the Kimberley Aboriginal people. Goolarabooloo family oppose building the LNG and held a series of rallies alongside non Aboriginal environmentalists.

Articles and resources

External articles

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