The onshore processing facilities will be the destination of gas from the Ichthys field, which lies in Western Australia’s offshore Browse basin, pumped there by an 889 kilometre subsea pipeline.

In an announcement, Inpex chairman Naoki Kuroda said the project would deliver substantial social and economic development to the Northern Territory and Australia more broadly for decades to come.

“But it is also a vitally significant day for the people of Japan,” he said.

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