Pre-Feed Work on Oz Judith Gas Project Starts
Sydney-listed Emperor Energy on September 1 said gas infrastructure firm APA Group had started the pre-front end engineering design (pre-Feed) for the provision of midstream infrastructure and services related to the Judith gas field offshore Victoria.
Judith, 100%-owned by Emperor, is located within the VIC/P47 permit in the offshore Gippsland Basin, Victoria. Judith holds 150bn ft3 (4.25bn m3) in best-estimate contingent gas resources, and 1.2tn ft3 in best-estimate prospective resources, according to an independent appraisal completed in July 2019.
The pre-Feed study will include designs for a gas processing plant adjacent to the existing Orbost gas processing plant owned by APA, a 40-km subsea pipeline connecting it with Judith and an export pipeline to the Eastern Gas Pipeline located to the north of the Orbost gas plant. The study will also refine the project's indicative costs and scheduling.
The design basis for the pre-Feed is 80mn ft3/day of sales gas across a 25-year project life. The pre-Feed study will take four months to complete, Emperor said.
Emperor and APA established a memorandum of understanding relating to the Judith gas project in October last year. The pre-Feed is the first stage of work to progress from the MoU.