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Operation Title, leases Nominal Facilities,
& location Product Ownership Operator or options production capacity use & condition
Minerva
Offshore Gas and BHP 90% BHP Production licence issued 150 TJ/d gas 2 subsea well completions
and onshore condensate Cooper Energy (MF) by Australian Government 600 bbl/d (2 producing wells)
Victoria Pty Ltd 10% expires 5 years after condensate Single flow line transports
production ceases gas to onshore gas
processing facility
Gas plant located
approximately 4 km inland
from Port Campbell
On 3 September 2019, the
Minerva gas field reached
end-of-field life and
production ceased at the
Minerva gas plant
On 1 May 2018, BHP entered
into an agreement for the
sale of its interests in the
onshore gas plant with
subsidiaries of Cooper
Energy and Mitsui E&P
Australia Pty Ltd. The sale
was completed on 5
December 2019
Other production operations
Trinidad and Tobago
Greater Angostura
Offshore Oil and gas BHP 45% BHP Production sharing contract 100 Mbbl/d oil Integrated oil and gas
Trinidad and National Gas with the Trinidad and Tobago 340 MMcf/d gas development: central
Tobago Company 30% Government entitles us to processing platform
Chaoyang 25% operate Greater Angostura connected to 4
until 2031 wellhead platforms and
a gas export platform
31 wells completed for
production and injection
including: 17 oil producers,
7 gas producers (3 subsea)
and 7 gas injectors
Algeria
ROD Integrated Development
Onshore Oil BHP 45% interest in Joint Production sharing contract Approximately Development and
Berkine Basin 401a/402a production Sonatrach/ with Sonatrach (title holder) 80 Mbbl/d oil production of 6 oil fields
900 km sharing contract ENI entity 2 largest fields (ROD and SF
southeast of ENI 55% SFNE) extend into
Algiers, Algeria BHP effective 29.2% neighbouring blocks 403a,
interest in ROD unitised 403d
integrated development Production through
dedicated processing train
on block 403

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