Decommissioning Australia’s offshore oil and gas infrastructure is expensive. But safety concerns and oil spill risks remain real
In the early hours of August 21, 2009, a sea floor well emitted a burp of fluid and gas at the Montara oil field, 690 kilometres off the coast of Darwin. Two hours later, a column of crude oil shot into the West Atlas drilling rig and continued unabated for 10 weeks. The result was […]