WA Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety

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The WA Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety promotes and regulates the State's mining and petroleum industries and also provides safety and consumer protection regulation to other sectors.

Aerial view of Santos' oil and gas processing plant on Varanus Island off the Western Australian coast

Decommissioning

WA onshore and coastal oil & gas clean up to cost billions

Santos and Chevron, through Varanus and Barrow Islands, have a big part to play in the clean up of 1000 oil and gas wells in WA, with about 300 ready to be plugged now.

Sinbad platform lift during decommissioning off the coast of Western Australia.

Safety

Out of control lift of Santos platform off WA could have killed

Terrifying video shows an offshore lift that went badly wrong off the WA coast in early July endangering workers hanging off a platform and those on the vessel.

North West Shelf project's Karratha Gas Plant.

Safety

Concern over corrosion found at Woodside’s North West Shelf LNG

Woodside has found corrosion during a shutdown of the North West Shelf's LNG Train 4 that potentially is a serious concern. It is understood Woodside is now inspecting other trains for the problem.

LNG

Chevron's Gorgon CO2 injection fix needs more time, so more emissions

Chevron's Gorgon should be a showpiece of carbon capture and storage but five years after first LNG it is still not working properly and has another five-month extension from the regulator.

Geothermal

WA geothermal rush causes regulator rethink on titles

Two companies are chasing geothermal energy in WA but others must wait to compete for new acreage due to be released by September.

Carbon capture and storage

Gorgon emissions to soar until Chevron fixes restricted CO2 injection

Gorgon LNG's carbon emissions will jump by more than one million tonnes a year until Chevron fixes an underground pressure management problem that caused WA's safety regulator to curtail CO2 injection by two-thirds.

LNG

Chevron to redo its botched Gorgon weld repairs

Welders will have to grind out and redo repairs at Gorgon performed to an incorrect procedure provided by Chevron and the delay could cost up to $250M.

Safety

Chevron cops 33 orders from regulators to make Gorgon safe

Chevron faces shutting Gorgon LNG down to make it safe after WA safety regulators responded to reports of thousands of cracks in propane-filled vessels.

Safety

Gorgon weld problems raise safety questions Chevron will not answer

Chevron has "put additional mitigations in place" to protect workers while it mulls what to do with two giant LNG trains operating at Gorgon that could have defective welds.

Chevron

Chevron plans to fix and restart Gorgon Train 2 by September

Chevron intends to have cracked propane vessels fixed and Gorgon LNG back in full production by September as it awaits inspection by the safety regulator.

Safety

Regulator OK with Gorgon safety but will inspect early next week

The safety and economic stakes for Gorgon LNG are high as WA Government inspectors soon head to Barrow Island to check on Chevron's cracked pressure vessels.

Safety

Safety regulator to inspect Chevron's Gorgon ASAP

Safety regulators knew nothing of cracked pressure vessels at Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant until alerted by media reports and now plan to inspect the equipment themselves.

Safety

Cracks at Chevron's Gorgon threaten safety and LNG production

Thousands of cracks raise questions about the safety of the Gorgon LNG plant and operator Chevron will decide to shutdown or maintain revenue, with the safety regulator on the sidelines.

Decommissioning

Tougher policing of offshore oil and gas decommissioning

Offshore oil and gas operators that continually delay costly decommissioning will now be watched more closely by offshore safety and environment regulator NOPSEMA.