Bonaparte Basin, Block WA-33L Blacktip field, Western Australia
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Location
Nearby Locations
| Km | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Keats | YPKT | 119.0 | 109° |
| Wyndham | YWYM | 182.2 | 191° |
| Kalumburu | YKAL | 204.2 | 258° |
| Kununurra | YPKU | 209.7 | 173° |
 Prometheus platforms |
226.1 | 297° | |
| Truscott-Mungalalu | YTST | 227.9 | 265° |
The Blacktip gas field was discovered in 2001 and development work started in 2006 in c 50m of water in the Timor Sea Joseph Bonaparte Gulf. The reservoirs are a series of stacked sandstones of Lower Triassic Mt Goodwin formation and the Permo-Carboniferous Keyling and Treachery formations. First gas was in Sep 2009. Product is exported from the unmanned Well Head Platform via a 58nm subsea pipeline south eastwards to a landfall just W of Wadeye, for the Yelcherr Gas Plant in the Northern Territory.