Activity details

Organisation	Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd
Project	Bass Strait Development
Activity types	Drilling Decommissioning, dismantling or removing a facility
In-force EP	8520
Submission date	30 September, 2025
Outcome	Accepted
Acceptance date	05 November, 2025
Locations	Gippsland
Start date	Pending titleholder notification
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

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Activity Description

Esso has developed this EP in accordance with the applicable legislative requirements, to manage the environmental impacts and risks associated with JUR Well Work Barracouta activities, to be completed by a jack up rig (JUR) within the Petroleum Safety Zone (PSZ) at the Barracouta Platform in the Gippsland Basin. The JUR Well Work Barracouta Operational Area (OA) for the purposes of this EP lies within Production License VIC/L02 and is defined by the existing 500m PSZ around the Barracouta facility, whilst the activity is taking place at that location. The activities included in the scope of this EP are JUR positioning, plug and abandonment (P&A), well workover, conductor pulling, support vessels activities, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) activities and use of helicopters. The earliest date of commencement of JUR Well Work Barracouta is expected to be in Q4 2025 when the JUR completes the previous activities. It is expected that the P&A and workover of up to nine wells will take approximately 120 days (inclusive of JUR positioning activities), dependent on weather, scheduling and operations performance.

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Accepted EP Documents

EP Document	A1265945 (109 MB)
OPEP Document	A1265941 (8.37 MB)
OSMP Document	A1265941 (8.37 MB)

Related EP assessments

8520 (Click to view)