Australia's deepest offshore drilling operation has won approval from regulators before its environment plan has been made public under disclosure rules that have since been tightened.
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| Drilling deeper: an oil rig in the Bass Strait operated by Exxon's Australian subsidiary, Esso. |
Esso this week won approval from the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority for plans to drill for gas about 100 kilometres off the Victorian coast in Bass Strait in its Sculpin prospect.
Read the story from The Age by Peter Hannam - “Australia’s deepest offshore well approved amid call for transparency.”
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