Activity details

Organisation	Woodside Energy (Australia) Pty Ltd
Project	Pyrenees Development
Activity types	Operation of a facility for the recovery or processing of petroleum Any other petroleum-related activity
In-force EP	7893
Submission date	03 July, 2024
Outcome	Accepted
Acceptance date	05 February, 2026
Locations	North West
Start date	08 March, 2024
Stop date	Pending titleholder notification
Lifecycle Classification	Operation & Production

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Activity Description

Woodside Energy is submitting a 5-year environment plan revision for the Pyrenees Facility Operations activity in accordance with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Environment) Regulations 2023 (Cth). The Pyrenees facility commenced operation in 2010 and is located in Commonwealth waters approximately 45 km northwest of Exmouth in Western Australia (WA). The water depth at the FPSO mooring location is approximately 200 m with wells located in water depths up to 213 m. The facility is located in production permits WA-42-L and WA-43-L and currently produces oil from the Ravensworth, Crosby, Stickle, Tanglehead, Wild Bull and Moondyne reservoirs (collectively referred to as ‘the Pyrenees reservoirs’) via a single stand-alone floating production, storage and offloading vessel (the Pyrenees Venture FPSO). The facility is comprised of the FPSO vessel, processing and separation facilities (for oil, water and gas), gas compression facilities and associated subsea infrastructure. Under normal operations, surplus gas and produced water is disposed by reinjection back into the reservoir. After processing, the stabilised crude oil is offloaded to trading tankers for export. The activities proposed to occur within production permits WA-42-L and WA-43-L include: • Routine production of crude oil and gas • Routine and non-routine operations of the Pyrenees FPSO and associated subsea infrastructure. • Routine injection of gas to the Macedon-6 injection well, which is maintained and operated under the Macedon Operations Environment Plan. • Routine and non-routine inspection, monitoring, maintenance and repair (IMMR) of the Pyrenees FPSO and associated subsea infrastructure. • Disconnection and sail-away of the FPSO with the disconnectable turret mooring (DTM) and subsea infrastructure remaining in place. Pyrenees Facility Operations will operate 24 hours a day for the 5-year duration of this EP

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Accepted EP Documents

EP Document	A1305487 (96.1 MB)
OPEP Document	A1305477 (1.98 MB)

Related EP assessments

7893 (Click to view)

4546 (Click to view)

2367 (Click to view)