1. OPPORTUNITIES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA APPEX London 2011
Bill Tinapple
Executive Director
Petroleum Division
Department of Mines and Petroleum

4. Projects Project Name Operator Water Depth Browse LNG Woodside Gas LNG
Water Depth
Browse LNG
Woodside
Gas
LNG
Downstream / Upstream
metres
Greater Gorgon (including Jansz-Io)
Chevron/Exxon Mobil
metres
Macedon
BHP Billiton
Domgas 
 50 – 200 metres
Pluto project
metres
Reindeer / Caribou (Devil Creek)
Apache Energy
metres
Wheatstone / Iago / Julimar and Brunello
Chevron/Apache
Upstream
50 – 200 metres 
NWS Western Flank
metres

5. Projects (cont) Project Name Operator Water Depth Ichthys Inpex
Water Depth
Ichthys
Inpex
Gas & Condensate
LNG
Upstream
metres
Spar
Santos
Gas
Domgas 
50 – 200 metres 
Halyard
Apache
 Domgas
Pilbara LNG (Scarborough)
BHP Billiton/Exxon
metres
Prelude
Shell
FLNG
250 – 300 metres 
Bonaparte
Santos/Gulf Suez
metres

8. Opportunities in Shale Gas and Tight Gas
Driven by:
Shortfall in domestic gas and supply
easy offshore gas has been developed
need to diversify gas supplies
prospectivity

9. There are a range of opportunities to bid by work program for acreage both onshore and offshore Western Australia, in Commonwealth (Federal) and State jurisdictions.
There are also opportunities to take up acreage for geothermal energy exploration.

10. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Petroleum Round 2 of 2010
Gazetted 7 September 2010
bids close 10 March 2011
7 release areas
5 Canning Basin
L sq km
L sq km
L sq km
L sq km
L sq km
1 Carnarvon Basin
L sq km
1 Perth Basin
L sq km
There are 7 release areas in round 2 of Targets range in age: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic.
Release area size ranges from 1331 sq km in the northern Perth Basin to over sq km in the Canning Basin.
Work program bids close 10 March 2011.
Acreage release CDs are available from our booth at NAPE.

11. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Petroleum Round 1 of 2011
Gazetted 12 April 2011
bids close 6 October 2011
9 release areas
4 Canning Basin
L sq km
L sq km
L sq km
L sq km
2 NW Shelf
T sq km
T11-2/L sq km
2 Blake Sub-basin
L sq km
L sq km
1 Perth Basin coastal waters
T sq km
There are 9 release areas in round 1 of Targets range in age: Neoproterozoic, Palaeozoic and Mesozoic.
Release area size ranges from 136 sq km adjacent to Barrow Island to over sq km in the Officer Basin.
Work program bids close 6 October 2011.
Acreage release CDs area will be available from our booth at the APPEA Conference, Perth in April.

12. Visit the W. Australia Booth #29 or
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Further Information
Visit the W. Australia Booth #29 or
Further information may be obtained from Western Australia’s booth in the NAPE Exhibition area or you may like to visit the Department’s website.