Woodside Petroleum has placed its Pluto liquefied natural gas facility in Western Australia at the centre of a new strategy to boost its LNG business by bringing undeveloped gas discoveries into the plant.

The company revealed that a two-phase expansion of the Pluto facility is being considered.

The first phase would see the development of its own undeveloped gas in the Carnarvon basin to generate between 1 million tonnes per annum and 1.5