Activity details

Organisation	Eni Australia B.V.
Project	Blacktip Gas
Activity types	Drilling
In-force EP	7103
Submission date	20 July, 2022
Outcome	Accepted
Acceptance date	15 July, 2024
Locations	Northern Territory
Start date	01 December, 2024
Stop date	Pending titleholder notification
Lifecycle Classification	Development

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Activity Description

Eni Australia BV (Eni) operates the Blacktip facilities, approximately 300km west south west of Darwin, located in Lease Area WA-33-L, within Commonwealth waters in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf (JBG). The facilities consists of a normally unpopulated wellhead platform (WHP) in approximately 51m water depth, platform wells, flowlines, and a subsea gas export pipeline (GEP) (Licence WA-15-PL, NT/PL2) bringing whole well stream fluid (as in, gas, condensate and produced water) to the Yelcherr Gas Plant (YGP) near Wadeye in the Northern Territory (NT). Stabilised condensate is stored on site at the YGP before being exported via a subsea condensate export pipeline (CEP) (NT/PL3) to a single point mooring (SPM), located approximately 7km offshore in Commonwealth waters, for loading to tanker vessels and subsequent transport to market. The Blacktip Drilling Environment Plan (EP) is a standalone drilling EP covering the development drilling and completion scope for a new Blacktip development well at the WHP. The nearest shoreline is approximately 100km to the east and 100km to the south. The schedule for these drilling activities will be subject to jack-up mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) availability; however, is anticipated to take place between 2024 and 2027. Once drilled, the new well will be shut in, its hook-up, commissioning and production will be covered under the Blacktip Operations EP (000036_DV_PR.HSE.0677.0000). The scope of the Blacktip Drilling EP includes: • A geophysical survey at the WHP • The mobilisation, positioning, and demobilisation of a jack up MODU at the WHP • Drilling and completions of a new development well in the Blacktip field through an existing slot on the Blacktip WHP • Intervention on current production wells at the WHP (rig-based) • Contingent workover operations on current production wells at the WHP Ongoing operations of Blacktip facilities, including the production from Blacktip wells included in Blacktip Operations EP (000036_DV_PR.HSE.0677.000)

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Accepted EP Documents

EP Document	A1096827 (31.3 MB)
OPEP Document	A1079051 (9.75 MB)
OSMP Document	A1079049 (2.1 MB)

Related EP assessments

7103 (Click to view)