WA quietly shuts door on more exports of onshore gas

The basin is touted as having low production costs, close to existing pipelines and customers, with no need to employ controversial fracking techniques.

Spare processing capacity as a result of declining production from Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export plant opened the prospect of using the facility to export gas from other companies.

In 2020 then Premier and state development minister Mark McGowan announced a ban on the export of onshore gas.

The exception was the Waitsia field, half…