Australia's upstream regulator has ordered independent Santos to delay work on the Barossa gas pipeline to supply Darwin LNG while it consults on culturally significant underwater sites. Work on the pipeline, connecting the Barossa gas field in the Bonaparte basin offshore the Northern Territory to the 3.7mn t/yr Darwin LNG, must not start until the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (Nopsema) is satisfied that Santos has minimised risk to sites culturally important to the Tiwi Islands people. Santos had planned to start building the pipeline in late January, aiming to deliver ... (full story)