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Santos, Australia’s second largest fossil fuel manufacturer, secured another customer for the contentious Narrabri coal sew gas field project in North NSW.
Giant Ortica, who needed gas as a raw material to make ammonium nitrate, said that on Thursday, Santos made a non -binding agreement to buy 15 petajoule from Narrabri for ten years.
Santos General Manager Kevin Gallagher.Credit: Peter Rae
Only weeks after Santos signed a similar agreement to sell gasoline to French power and gas Utility Engie from the project.
However, Santos’s proposal to drill 850 gas wells in Narrabri is stuck in the limo and has not yet taken a final path. The controversial development has stopped for years as it would cause irreversible damage to the long -term legal appeals and cultures, territory and waters from environmental activists, landowners and Gomeroi traditional owners.
Despite the obstacles, Santos General Manager Kevin Gallagher insisted that Narrabri gas was a “overwhelming demand ve and promised only domestic customers to sell gas if the project continues.
“Santos wants to carry out foundation contracts as soon as possible after the regulatory and local title processes have been concluded,” he said.
When the Australian Energy Market Operator, BAS Strait’s aging open sea gas fields are rapidly dry, the new southern Wales, Victoria and South Australia in order to prevent the famine of energy in order to prevent new domestic gas resources should be developed urgently.
More Australian moves to replace gas devices with electrical alternatives, which reduces the level of demand for gas. However, the market operator says that this change does not happen fast enough to prevent the expected annual supply deficits in a short period of three years.
