Barrow Island is a Class A nature reserve. The US oil major is planning to build either a gas-to-liquids or liquefied natural gas facility on the northern end of the reserve.
Rhonda Zygocki, managing director of ChevronTexaco in Australia, said she was confident the strategic ESE study would show that the island could be sustainably used for the Gorgon development, which has access to proved gas reserves of 13.8