Activity details

Organisation	Woodside Energy Ltd
Project	North West Shelf
Activity types	Drilling
In-force EP	5488
Submission date	24 December, 2020
Outcome	Accepted
Acceptance date	18 March, 2021
Locations	North West
Start date	20 September, 2024
Stop date	Pending titleholder notification
Lifecycle Classification	Decommissioning

Please note: activity start and stop dates are based on notifications provided by the titleholder.

Titleholder contact

Activity Description

Woodside Energy Ltd proposes to perform the following activities within Permit Areas WA-1-L and WA-23-L: • Permanently plug and abandonment of the Yodel-3 and Yodel-4 production wells, and the Capella-1 exploration well, including removing all well infrastructure above the mudline. Permanent plugging will involve removing temporary plugs and installing permanent abandonment barriers in the wells using a Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU). The preferred option is to recover well infrastructure by MODU and/or subsea support vessel. The proposed Petroleum Activities Program is scheduled to occur between the second quarter of 2021 and fourth quarter of 2024. Permanent plugging activities for the three wells is expected to take about 20 to 60 days per well to complete. If performed as a single campaign, the cumulative duration could be up to 180 days (including mobilisation and demobilisation). The Operational Area is located in Commonwealth waters within the NWS Province, as defined under the Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA v4.0), in water depths of about 134 m to 136 m. The Petroleum Activities Program does not overlap with any established or proposed marine protected areas. The closest nearshore sensitive habitats to the Petroleum Activities Program is the Commonwealth boundary of the Montebello Australian Marine Park approximately 24 km to the south. Other sensitive habitats in proximity to the Petroleum Activities Program include Rankin Bank (12 km away from the defined Operational Area) and the Ancient Coastline at 125 m depth contour Key Ecological Feature which overlaps the Operational Area.

Location map (click to enlarge)

Accepted EP Documents

EP Document	A772288 (35.2 MB)

Related EP assessments

5488 (Click to view)