West Australian Premier Roger Cook has warned Woodside its social licence rests on properly supplying the state’s gas market as his government closes in on a deal with the company to overhaul a decades-old, export-friendly agreement controlling one of its biggest projects.
Cook said he was in regular talks with Woodside to rework a 20-year-old contract governing the amount of gas that can be exported from its Pluto liquefied natural gas project, which for years has allowed the company to send most gas it produces to Asia, despite WA’s domestic reservation.
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