Geographe and Thylacine Gas Fields

Summary Information

• Operator: Beach Energy
• Country: Australia
• Location: Bass Strait
• Production start: 2007
• Partners:
• Type: Gas
• Estimated Reserves:
• Production Volume:

Description

• Otway Gas Project consists of two offshore gas fields, Geographe and Thylacine, and an onshore gas processing facility, Otway Gas Processing Plant, near Port Campbell in south-west Victoria.
• There is a wellhead platform on the Thylacine reservoir, Thylacine-A with four production wells.
• Three subsea Geographe production wells (Geographe 2, Geographe 4, Geographe 5) and associated subsea infrastructure.
• The Otway Pipeline System consists of two subsea pipelines – the Otway Gas Pipeline and the piggybacked MEG pipeline.
• The Thylacine field was developed in the first phase and Geographe in the second
• There are Four subsea suspended wells (Artisan1, Geographe 1, Geographe 3, Thylacine1).

Contractors

• **Technip:** Project management, detailed engineering, procurement of equipment and material, construction and pre-commissioning of the wellhead platform, the onshore gas plant and onshore pipeline.

History

• 2001 - Geographe
• 2004 - FID taken for the project
• 2007 - First gas produced
• 2009 - Origin acquired Woodside's stake
• 2012 - Drilling started on Geographe
• 2013 - Geographe field came onstream
• 2018 - Beach Energy acquires the project from Origin
• 2022 - First gas from Geographe 5 & 6

Geology

• The reservoir consists of Waarre Sandstone

Links

1. Offshore Oil And Gas Production Platforms In Australia
2. Technip Oil And Gas Processing References
3. Thylacine – potential new gas supply to eastern Australia
4. Geographe Gas Discovery, Offshore Otway Basin, Victoria
5. Otway Gas Project Receives Joint Venture Approval
6. Technip awarded two major contracts by woodside for the Otway gas project in offshore Victoria, Australia
7. Otway Exports First Gas
8. Origin To Increase Its Stake In The Otway Gas Project
9. Commencement of operations at Geographe gas field
10. Production commences from Otway Gas Project's Geographe field
11. Lattice Energy sale reaches completion
12. First gas from Geographe wells