The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) confirmed the approval of Shell’s environment plan in December 2023, enabling the oil major to undertake the Crux seabed survey within production licenses AC/PL1 and WA-33-PL.
This seabed survey will encompass a geophysical survey and a geotechnical survey to investigate sub-seabed geological conditions to understand conditions at the proposed pipeline pipelay initiation and the pipeline end manifold (PLEM) locations for the Crux pipeline.
