Skip to main content

EPA WA

Site map | Accessibility | Contact us | Login

Go to whole of WA Government search

  • Home
  • About EPA
    • The functions of the EPA
      • EPA members
      • EPA Annual Reports
      • OEPA Annual Reports
      • Strategic Plan
      • Code of Conduct
      • Evaluation reports
      • Stakeholder engagement
      • EPA Scientific Advisory Council
    • Statement of Expectation
    • Legislation
    • Information statement and Freedom of Information
    • Agency agreements
    • State of the environment
    • Legal and governance review
  • Assessments
    • About EIA - Proposals
      • Assessment framework
      • Step-by-step through the assessment process
    • About EIA - Schemes
      • Scheme Referral form
    • Public comment and submissions
    • How to appeal against a decision or recommendation of the EPA
    • Ministerial decisions

      Active Assessments
      SEARCH Proposals
      SEARCH Schemes
      Chair's Determinations

      • Ministerial Statements
    • Tools
      • Administrative Procedures
      • Procedures Manual
      • Instructions, templates and forms
      • Subscribe to content
    • Search
      • Decisions on whether to assess
      • EPA assessment reports
  • Implementation
    • Making information publicly available
    • I want to ...
      • Prepare a Compliance Assessment Plan
      • Prepare a Compliance Assessment Report
      • Prepare an Audit Table
    • Tools
      • Post assessment forms
      • Search Post-assessment changes
    • Links
      • State Environmental Offsets Register
  • Guidelines & procedures
    • Environmental Protection Policies (EPPs) and Associated Regulations
      • Framework for Environmental protection policies (EPPs) and associated regulations
      • Western Swamp Tortoise habitat EPP
      • Goldfields residential area (sulfur dioxide) EPP and regulations
      • Kwinana (atmospheric wastes) EPP and regulations
      • Peel Inlet – Harvey estuary EPP
    • Assessment procedures in EIA
      • Framework for assessment procedures in EIA
      • Administrative Procedures
      • Procedures Manual
      • Instructions, templates and forms
      • Search guidelines and procedures
      • Replaced policy and its location in the current framework
    • Environmental considerations in EIA
      • Framework for environmental considerations in EIA
      • Statement of Environmental Principles, Factors and Objectives
      • Sea
      • Land
      • Water
      • Air
      • People
    • Advice and Reference Material
      • Framework for advice and reference material
      • Strategic advice
      • Advice on environmental matters
      • Technical reports and environmental management studies
      • Government policies and guidance
      • Guidance for planning and development
      • State Environmental Policies
      • Advice on the state’s environment
      • EPA Submissions
  • News Centre

Filter by industry sector:

  • (-) Remove Oil and gas filter Oil and gas
  • Infrastructure (2) Apply Infrastructure filter
  • Industrial (1) Apply Industrial filter

Filter by current status:

  • Ministerial Statement published (15) Apply Ministerial Statement published filter
  • Decision on whether to assess has been published (1) Apply Decision on whether to assess has been published filter
  • EPA Report and Recommendations released - not appealable (1) Apply EPA Report and Recommendations released - not appealable filter
  • Minister determined that the proposal should not be implemented (1) Apply Minister determined that the proposal should not be implemented filter
  • Response to submission published (1) Apply Response to submission published filter

Filter by relevant environmental factors:

  • (-) Remove Marine Fauna filter Marine Fauna
  • Benthic Communities and Habitats (14) Apply Benthic Communities and Habitats filter
  • Marine Environmental Quality (13) Apply Marine Environmental Quality filter
  • Flora and Vegetation (7) Apply Flora and Vegetation filter
  • Terrestrial Fauna (7) Apply Terrestrial Fauna filter
  • Coastal Processes (6) Apply Coastal Processes filter
  • 37 (5) Apply 37 filter
  • Social Surroundings (2) Apply Social Surroundings filter
  • Terrestrial Environmental Quality (2) Apply Terrestrial Environmental Quality filter
  • Landforms (1) Apply Landforms filter
  • Subterranean Fauna (1) Apply Subterranean Fauna filter

Filter by Proponent:

  • Chevron Australia Pty Ltd (5) Apply Chevron Australia Pty Ltd filter
  • Woodside Energy Ltd (3) Apply Woodside Energy Ltd filter
  • Minora Resources NL (2) Apply Minora Resources NL filter
  • West Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd (2) Apply West Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd filter
  • Apache Northwest Pty Ltd (1) Apply Apache Northwest Pty Ltd filter
  • BHP Billiton Petroleum Pty Ltd (1) Apply BHP Billiton Petroleum Pty Ltd filter
  • Chevron Australia Pty Ltd (for original proposal) (1) Apply Chevron Australia Pty Ltd (for original proposal) filter
  • Lasmo Oil (Australia) Ltd (1) Apply Lasmo Oil (Australia) Ltd filter
  • Minister for State Development (1) Apply Minister for State Development filter
  • Mobil Exploration and Producing Australia Pty Ltd (1) Apply Mobil Exploration and Producing Australia Pty Ltd filter

Filter by region:

  • Pilbara (11) Apply Pilbara filter
  • Gascoyne (5) Apply Gascoyne filter
  • Kimberley (2) Apply Kimberley filter
  • Perth (1) Apply Perth filter
  1. Home
  2. Proposal search
  3. Marine Fauna
  4. Oil and gas

Proposed Browse to NWS Development

Last updated: May 12, 2025

Woodside Energy Ltd has provided a combined document that relates to both its Commonwealth referral (Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999) and State referral (Environmental Protection Act 1986). The component within State Waters includes drilling and completion, installation, commissioning, operation, well repair and workover and decommissioning of subsea wells and associated infrastructure located in Western Australian State waters, to extract hydrocarbons from the Torosa reservoir... Read more...

Gorgon Gas Development Revised and Expanded Proposal: Barrow Island Nature Reserve

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The construction of facilities for the development of the Greater Gorgon Gas Fields on the North-West Shelf, and the processing and export of the gas at a liquefied natural gas plant to be constructed on Barrow Island. Read more...

Wheatstone Development - Gas Processing, Export Facilities and Infrastructure

Last updated: November 25, 2024

The Proposal is to construct and operate a 25 million tonne per annum Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility and associated Domestic Gas (Domgas) facility in the proposed Ashburton North Strategic Industrial Area (ANSIA) 12 kilometres south west of the town of Onslow. Read more...

Gorgon Gas Development Revised and Expanded Proposal: Barrow Island Nature Reserve (S46) [2367]

Last updated: April 16, 2024

Inquire into implementation Condition 9 (Quarantine Expert Panel) and Condition 15 (Marine Turtle Expert Panel) to ensure that they are effective and act as an independent advisory group for the Minister for Environment and the proponent on matters relating to terrestrial and marine quarantine and marine turtle monitoring and management. It is noted that a second Section 46 inquiry into Ministerial 800 (dated 11-04-2023) has also been requested by the Minister for Environment in relation to... Read more...

Gorgon Gas Development Revised and Expanded Proposal: Barrow Island Nature Reserve (S46) [2368]

Last updated: June 26, 2023

Inquiry into implementation Condition 10 (Terrestrial and Marine Quarantine Management System), Condition 16 (Long-term Marine Turtle Management Plan) and Condition 25 (Coastal Stability Management and Monitoring Plan) to ensure that they are effective and reflect a contemporary outcome-based condition setting. It is noted a preceding Section 46 inquiry into Ministerial 800 (dated 11-03-2023) has been requested by the Minister for Environment in relation to Conditions 9, and 15 (Inquiry 1).... Read more...

Scarborough Project Nearshore Component

Last updated: June 14, 2022

The Proposal would include the following activities: shore crossing site preparation including installation of temporary facilities along the shoreline at the Pluto LNG Facility to facilitate the installation of the trunkline in shallower depths preparation works associated with the installation of the trunkline including dredging and associated spoil disposal at existing spoil grounds trunkline installation (about 32.7 kilometres long within State waters) shore crossing site reinstatement rock... Read more...

Wheatstone Development Proposal (S46) [2178]

Last updated: February 2, 2022

Conditions 6-12, 9-1 to 9-5 inclusive, and 12-1 to 12-8 inclusive of Ministerial Statement 873 are to be removed from the statement and conditions 9-1 to 9-5 inclusive and conditions 12-1 to 12-8 inclusive are to be transferred into a new ministerial statement. The change will facilitate the transfer of conditions relevant to the operation of port facilities from Chevron Australia Pty Ltd to the Pilbara Ports Authority via this new Ministerial Statement. Read more...

Browse Liquefied Natural Gas Precinct

Last updated: December 21, 2016

Note: In the matter of The Wilderness Society of WA (Inc) –v- Minister for Environment [2013] WASC, the Supreme Court of Western Australia found the Minister’s agreement decision invalid because the EPA’s decision to report was invalid., The proposal is a strategic environmental assessment for a common user LNG hub precinct for future Browse Basin gas processing in the Kimberley Region. Read more...

Gorgon Gas Development Fourth Train Expansion Proposal

Last updated: April 30, 2015

To expand the liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity of the existing proposal from 15 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) to 20 Mtpa (nominal). Read more...

Macedon Gas Development

Last updated: January 17, 2012

The proposal is to construct a sub sea pipeline, onshore gas treatment and compression plant, and sales gas pipeline. The subsea pipeline from the Macedon Gas Field (100 kilometres west of Onslow) connects to the onshore gas treatment and compression plant at Ashburton North (15 kilometres southwest of Onslow). The sales gas pipeline connects the onshore facility to the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas (DBNG) Pipeline. Read more...

North West Shelf Gas Project Additional Liquefied Natural Gas LNG facilities

Last updated: February 11, 2000

Woodside Energy Limited proposes to construct and operate additional Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processing trains, the current proposal being for two trains with a total additional capacity of 8 Mtpa at its onshore gas plant on the Burrup. Read more...

Chelonia-1 Chelonia-2 exploration wells, Northwest shelf

Last updated: January 18, 1999

Apache Northwest Pty Ltd proposes to drill two exploration wells, Chelonia-1 and -2 in Permit Area EP 342 which is located at the head of Exmouth Gulf. Both wells will have the same surface location, situated outside the Ningaloo Marine Park, approximately 100 m from the boundary and 4 km to the SSW of South Muiron Island. Read more...

Second offshore trunkline and DOMGAS debottlenecking, North West Shelf

Last updated: July 14, 1998

The Proposal is to install a second undersea gas trunk line from the existing offshore Goodwin/North Rankin production platforms to a new terminal located in the existing onshore treatment plant at Withnell Bay on the Burrup Peninsula. Read more...

Proposed offshore petroleum exploration drilling in EP325, North West Shelf

Last updated: April 6, 1992

Proposal by Minora Resources NL for drilling within petroleum exploration permit area EP 325, situated in the Exmouth Gulf Area. Read more...

Proposed exploration drilling on the Cody Spider Cassidy Project, Exmouth Gulf

Last updated: January 7, 1992

Mobil Exploration and Producing Australia Pty Ltd has taken over as operator or a proposed offshore exploration drilling program for petroleum within permit area EP-325 within the Exmouth Gulf. This proposal seeks environmental approval for the drilling of exploration wells within three areas known as Cassidy, Cody and Spider. Read more...

Proposed Roller Oilfield development offshore Onslow

Last updated: December 10, 1991

Proposal to develop the Roller Oilfield within permit area TP/3 Part 1, specifically the drilling of a minimum of seven development wells from four monopod structures. Read more...

Proposed exploration drilling programme within permit area TP3 Par 1, offshore Onslow

Last updated: October 25, 1991

Western Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd (WAPET) is operator for the participants in Exploration Permit No. TP/3 Part 1. WAPET has already drilled some 18 wells within the Permit Area, has developed the Saladin, Cowle and Yammaderry oilfields and is currently seeking approval to develop the Roller Oilfield. Over the next five year period, WAPET proposes to drill a further four to twelve exploratory wells within Permit Area TP/3 Part 1. Read more...

Proposed exploration drilling, Exmouth Gulf, Lasmo Oil

Last updated: April 26, 1991

LASMO Oil (Australia) has proposed an offshore exploration drilling program for petroleum within its permit areas EP-342 and TP/9 at the open end of Exmouth Gulf. This proposal seeks environmental approval for the drilling of two wells in 1991 followed by a minimum of three others over the period 1992-1994. Read more...

Cooper No 1 Oil Exploration Permit EP 325 Emouth Gulf

Last updated: June 27, 1989

Minora Resources NL has submitted a proposal to drill a third exploration oil well in its lease, EP 325, Exmouth Gulf. The well is located 13 km south east of the town of Exmouth. Minora propose to use a jack-up rig and drilling would take about 24 days to complete. Drilling is proposed during the winter of 1989. Read more...

About us

The EPA Strategic Plan
Annual Report
News and Media
Job opportunities

Quick links

Minister for Environment
Ministerial Statements
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Office of the Appeals Convenor
State Environmental Offsets Register

Stay informed

Status of current formal assessments
Public comment and submissions
Follow us on X
Subscribe to website updates

Contact us

How to contact the EPA
1800 161 176
info.epa@dwer.wa.gov.au
8 Davidson Terrace, Joondalup, WA 6027
Locate us
Freedom of Information

Home | Privacy | Disclaimer | Site map | Website feedback | Copyright | X | Login

wa.gov.au

All contents © 2025 Government of Western Australia. All rights reserved.