Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has given its green light to Woodside Energy for permanent plug and abandonment (P&A) and well intervention activities for subsea wells associated with a gas project situated on the country’s northwest coast.

For the North West Shelf (NWS) development, Woodside will perform P&A of three Angel field wells (AP2, AP3, and AP4) in production licence WA-3-L, P&A of two Perseus over Goodwyn (PoG) wells (PER-02, PER-04) in production licence WA-1-L, well intervention activity on the TPA-03 well located in WA-5-L, as well as inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) activities in preparation for plugging and abandonment of the mentioned wells.