Pre-front end engineering and design study work on the FLNG development found that while the proposed solution was “technically robust”, it did not meet the co-venturers’ current commercial requirements.

Therefore GDF Suez will not be taking the Bonaparte FLNG project into the FEED phase at this point in time.

Instead, GDF Suez and sole partner Santos will now review other development concepts, including a pipeline to Darwin in the Northern Territory, where Conoco­Phillips is looking to expand its existing LNG plant for the Bonaparte LNG project that is intended to exploit the Petrel, Tern and Frigate fields.

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