as posted, the previous article was assumed incorrect.
but maybe just maybe - nah im dreaming again.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-business/woodside-set-to-boost-broome-port-20090601-bs5r.html
Woodside set to boost Broome port
Rebecca Le May
June 1, 2009 - 10:04AM
Woodside Petroleum Ltd is poised to use the port of Broome in Western Australia as a service hub for its Browse Basin liquefied natural gas (LNG) development, the port says.
The facility is the closest established port to the emerging Browse Basin offshore gas province, a point Broome Port chairman Ian Burston will drive home at Australia's largest oil and gas conference in Darwin this week.
"Negotiations with Woodside have reached the stage where we're waiting now for some environmental clearance so we can clear ground for them to assume 15 hectares in the port ... to establish their base and anything they want to put on that ... to service what they're doing in the Browse Basin," Dr Burston said.
"That ground is available. We're really at the last hurdle. Hopefully that will happen quickly."
Dr Burston said the deep-water port, which can accommodate 40,000-tonne vessels, offered an alternative to Dampier and Port Hedland in the event of congestion.
He said there was a healthy competition between Broome and Darwin ports, referring to Inpex's decision to export LNG through the top end.
The Japanese company lost patience with WA after protracted wrangling between the state government and indigenous land groups over the site for a LNG processing hub in the Kimberley region.
"Inpex says it will take its product to Darwin but is not saying it's taking its servicing facilities that are needed to develop the basin ... to Darwin," Dr Burston said.
"We've still got a view they could well come back to WA and hopefully they will come to Broome."
He said Broome port's new extended jetty had sufficient capacity to accommodate rig-service vessels.
Such traffic had increased substantially since 2006, he said.
"We currently handle about 400 a year, so it's quite a busy port.
"Also, we recently completed negotiations to take another 50 hectares adjacent to the northern boundary of the port to enable us to offer ground to other people.
"People who want to store large volumes of drill pipe and so on need a fairly big area to lay that down and need to be close enough to the jetty."
The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association 2009 Conference and Exhibition began in Darwin on Sunday.
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