Beetaloo or bust: the route to commercial success for an Australian shale play, page-143

Re-hashing NYSE prospectus - last sentence notes LNG could be earlier. Definitely kite flying for domestic gas but Plan A looks like LNG. Drives pricing and attracts more capital.

“The second phase of our business plan involves building our drilling program to produce natural gas to supply the Australian East Coast and Northern Territory markets. We anticipate drilling as many as 100 to 200 wells during this second phase, which may commence as early as 2026, subject to the completion of certain third-party infrastructure projects.

The current pipeline infrastructure, the AGP in the Northern Territory, can export ~50 MMcf/d northbound and ~50 MMcf/d to the East Coast.

We have a set of early development agreements with APA whereby APA has committed to evaluate a project to build, own, and operate, and subject to the definitive terms of the development agreements, to construct, a new approximately 1,000 mile pipeline to connect the Beetaloo to the main trunk line of the East Coast Gas Grid. The new pipeline is anticipated to reduce the cost of transporting gas from the Northern Territory to the East Coast by up to 50%. We have non-binding letters of intent from six of Australia’s largest energy retailers with respect to the purchase of natural gas from us, with an aggregate volume of 875 MMcf/d for a period of up to 10 to 15 years.

In the third phase of our business plan, following commercialization of the Beetaloo, we intend to drill additional wells with the intent to supply natural gas for export through the existing liquified natural gas (“LNG”) plants in Darwin and our proposed 6.9 Mtpa Northern Territory LNG export facility (“NTLNG”) to South and East Asian markets.

Depending on the volume of unused capacity then available at existing LNG plants in Darwin, this phase may occur before or in parallel with the second phase.”