It’s not just the Chinese that have stuffed up their northern WA investments. From the AFR, Gorgon appears set for more delay:
Shell – which has a 25 per cent stake in the massive venture, Australia’s largest single resources investment – classified Gorgon in a presentation released overnight as a project starting up in “2016-2018.” Only this week, Chevron restated its timing of mid-2015.
It also played down prospects for any early move to expand Gorgon, describing the status of the project to add a fourth production unit at the site on Barrow Island as “pause”.
…The start-up date was originally the second half of 2014, but then slipped into early 2015, and now to mid-2015, at least under Chevron’s official timetable. However, Shell’s presentation signals it may be later still.
That’ll presumably mean capex from the LNG magic pudding, although the launch date for export volumes is pushed back, obviously. No bad thing for Australia. Not so good for Shell.
