Point taken.
Wonder why it's so expensive to do that up there?
Australia is an environmental wacko's paradise. Nothing is done without extremely strict environmental protections. Case in point: when I used to work Australia, I visited Barrow Island, a beautiful place off the Northwest Shelf that was un-inhabited save the oil-field workers there who operated the largest onshore oilfield in the country. Just no fresh water for anything to survive but indigenous life which flourished there that was used to it.
EVERY piece of equipment that was shipped to island, including logging and cementing trucks, had to undergo a cleaning process to ensure no plants were transported there, as well as a three day wait to check for any rodents presence, prior to being transported to the island.
Guess where the Gorgon LNG plant is located? Barrow Island.
I worked back in the late 80's to try to get a development going for Gorgon and it took almost another 30 years to make it happen. Our estimated capital costs back then were $4bn and they ballooned to present $54 bn.
It did not help that Shell was part of the consortium, as that company is almost a enviro-wacko itself with its nonsensical zero-CO2 emissions commitment as a company it made. For years Shell has tried to get the Australian govt to force that same standard onto all companies so Shell could remain competitive. Competitive by make everybody share the misery of hi costs like it chose to do.
