Working in an Environmentally Responsible Manner.
Our environmental management will be world leading, with the potential to place Western Australia at the forefront of cutting-edge 21st century technology.
As part of our working process, we’ll be sharing our learnings with others in the petroleum industry in Australia and offshore.
Barrow Island – where Gorgon will be located – is an internationally significant nature reserve and the site of Australia's largest onshore operating oil field for the past 45 years.
As a world-class example of environmental management, it’s shown that conservation and development can successfully co-exist.
Recognising the importance of Barrow Island’s conservation values, we only selected it after thoroughly assessing the viability of alternative locations. And the actual location of our plant and infrastructure on Barrow Island has been deliberately selected to avoid areas of particular conservation significance.
Restricted use of Barrow Island is central to our commercial viability and exhaustive studies we’ve undertaken have shown there are no commercially viable development alternatives to this location.