Federal experts slam science behind Kimberley fracking plans
An independent review found Black Mountain conducted a "limited and disjointed" assessment that came to "largely unsupported" conclusions.
Western Gas is a small company that bought the Equus gas fields in the Carnarvon Basin off US company Hess to develop an LNG project.
Western Gas is looking east, at petrochemicals, at WA buyers and the North West Shelf LNG plant to find a market for its Equus gas.
If Western Gas' Equus LNG project does not take off in these tough times neither the small company nor regulator NOPTA have an answer to how making safe the wells is paid for.
Western Gas believes it will have the Equus gas field producing by 2023 — something oil major Hess failed to achieve despite spending $1.5 billion.
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