{"id":4761,"date":"2023-09-21T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aseanoffshore-decom.org\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2023-10-08T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T01:50:21","slug":"decommissioning-australias-offshore-oil-and-gas-infrastructure-is-expensive-but-safety-concerns-and-oil-spill-risks-remain-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/2023\/09\/21\/decommissioning-australias-offshore-oil-and-gas-infrastructure-is-expensive-but-safety-concerns-and-oil-spill-risks-remain-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Decommissioning Australia&#8217;s offshore oil and gas infrastructure is expensive. But safety concerns and oil spill risks remain real"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the early hours of August 21, 2009, a sea floor well emitted a burp of fluid and gas at the Montara oil field, 690 kilometres off the coast of Darwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two hours later, a column of crude oil shot into the West Atlas drilling rig and continued unabated for 10 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result was a calamity: 40 million litres of oil spread over an area of 90,000 square kilometres causing the worst spill of its kind in Australia&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News article on 19 September 2023<\/strong> <strong>by Linton Besser <\/strong>from <em>www.abc.net.au<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>For further reading, please visit <em>www.abc.net.au<\/em> >> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-09-19\/oil-gas-infrastructure-decomission-expensive-safety-oil-spill\/102854308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Decommissioning Australia&#8217;s offshore oil and gas infrastructure is expensive. But safety concerns and oil spill ri<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-09-19\/oil-gas-infrastructure-decomission-expensive-safety-oil-spill\/102854308\">sks remain real<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early hours of August 21, 2009, a sea floor well emitted a burp of fluid and gas at the Montara oil field, 690 kilometres off the coast of Darwin. Two hours later, a column of crude oil shot into the West Atlas drilling rig and continued unabated for 10 weeks. The result was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13006,"featured_media":4762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-worldwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/asean-decommission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}