Woodside Recommends FLNG for Browse

Woodside has recommended the Browse Joint Venture participants use floating LNG (FLNG) technology as the development concept to commercialise the three Browse gas fields.

“This concept would involve using Shell’s FLNG technology and Woodside’s offshore development expertise for the Browse LNG Development,” the company said in a statement.

Woodside’s decision follows the evaluation of alternative development concepts for Browse after the announcement in April this year not to proceed with the onshore development at James Price Point.

Other development concepts considered included a pipeline to existing facilities in the Pilbara and amodified option in the Kimberley.

Woodside is the major equity holder and operator of the Browse Joint Venture, which aims to commercialise the Venture’s three gas and condensate fields, Brecknock, Calliance and Torosa, which lie in the Indian Ocean, 425 km north of Broome in Western Australia.