Most existing LNG export terminals are in the midst
of offshore gas fields, so the physical impact in onshore communities is limited.
A 700 billion cubic metre (bcm) rise in
offshore gas production to 2040 is split equally between shallow and deepwater developments, bringing the share of offshore production in total gas output above 30 % by 2040.
According to this article in The Conversation, «Five new
offshore gas projects are coming online: Gorgon, Wheatstone, Ichthys, Pluto and Prelude.
For starters, the laws governing injury compensation for workers injured on
offshore gas platforms, oil rigs, cargo vessels and other jobs on the open sea are different than standard workers» compensation laws.
Aggressive emergency expansion of generation which saw a fast track deployment of 850MW of power, and the commencement of utilization of
significant offshore gas wells has given Ghana, once gain, the prospect of becoming a major exporter of power in the sub region.
The prospects
for offshore gas remain relatively robust in a Sustainable Development Scenario, but a decline in oil demand in this scenario weighs against new capital - intensive offshore oil projects.
A significant
offshore gas discovery adjacent to the Gorgon field in the Carnarvon Basin of the North West Shelf has boosted WA's gas inventory considerably.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP)-- The leaders of Cyprus, Greece and Israel pledged on Thursday to work together to seize opportunities emerging from newly
found offshore gas reserves in order to bolster stability and security in a region wracked by conflict.
Chevron and its partners in the $ US54 billion Gorgon LNG venture have committed a further several billion dollars in investment to
sustain offshore gas production for the monster processing plant on Western Australia's Barrow Island.
Other, he said was the Completion of repairs of the vandalized
Chevron offshore gas pipeline in February 2017 which equally peaked the company's gas supply to 430MMscfd.
A proposed 1,196 kilometer natural gas pipeline would run through the valley to
connect offshore gas fields with North American markets.
Israeli officials are confident - two of the worlds
largest offshore gas fields, Tamar and Leviathan, were recently discovered in Israeli waters.
This U.S. giant began several
big offshore gas projects off the Australian coast that helped boost production in 2017.
This involves 40 % of
total offshore gas production and 50 % of ultra-deep gas production.
A 3500 kilometre long chain of pipelines starting in Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz
II offshore gas field, this project is designed to pump annually ten billion cubic metres of fossil gas to Europe starting 2020, in addition to six billion cubic metres of gas that could arrive to Turkey as early as this year.
Guangdong already is the landing point for an 800 - kilometer offshore pipeline from China's own
Yacheng offshore gas field south of Hainan Island.
Gaseous hydrocarbons freed from the clathrates are collected by methods well known to those skilled in the art of
offshore gas recovery.
The offshore gas and oil industry is long established and is reaching ever greater depths in the sea in its quest for new and major deposits — for instance in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Brazil.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development provided funding to
an offshore gas exploration project in Azerbaijan, the Lukoil Shah Deniz Stage II project, and counted $ 10m as climate finance.
Since 2012 the federal Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) also applies to both onshore and
offshore gas (and oil), but it is set up as a tax on profits after all the exploration and extraction costs have been recouped.
The Snøhvit project also captures carbon dioxide at
an offshore gas processing facility, this time in the Barents sea.
Photo:
An offshore gas platform operated by Statoil ASA in the Oseberg North Sea oil field 140 kilometers from Bergen, Norway.