Tag: oil and gas extraction
Esso and BHP to drill of Victoria
In what is expected to be the largest combined E&P drilling programme in the Gippsland basin in the Bass Strait off Victoria since the 1980s, Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd and its joint venture partner BHP Billiton Ltd are preparing to locate and extract oil and natural gas from smaller fields that show potential and that are near existing infrastructure in the mature basin.