❓ Opposition asks about local content in Wheatstone project's engineering and steel fabrication. Premier deflects, stating he doesn't have the information and avoids answering directly.
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Wheatstone Liquefied Natural Gas Project — LOCAL front-end engineering and design WORK
I note that the final investment decision for the $25 billion Wheatstone project is imminent. (1) What proportion of the front-end engineering and design for the Wheatstone project is being undertaken or has been undertaken in Western Australia? (2) How many tonnes of the fabricated steel required by the Wheatstone project will be produced in Western Australian workshops? Mr C.J. BARNETT
I note that the final investment decision for the $25 billion Wheatstone project is imminent. (1) What proportion of the front-end engineering and design for the Wheatstone project is being undertaken or has been undertaken in Western Australia? (2) How many tonnes of the fabricated steel required by the Wheatstone project will be produced in Western Australian workshops? Mr C.J. BARNETT
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(1)–(2) As if I would know the answer to that! If Wheatstone has finished its front-end engineering and design—its FEED—and is about to go into final investment decision, the question by definition is redundant because it has already happened. I will just stress that while the project is nearing the completion of FEED and is very close to a final investment decision, as far as the state government is concerned — Mr E.S. Ripper : Do you know anything about the FEED at all? Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
(1) What proportion of the front-end engineering and design for the Wheatstone project is being undertaken or has been undertaken in Western Australia? (2) How many tonnes of the fabricated steel required by the Wheatstone project will be produced in Western Australian workshops? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(2) As if I would know the answer to that! If Wheatstone has finished its front-end engineering and design—its FEED—and is about to go into final investment decision, the question by definition is redundant because it has already happened. I will just stress that while the project is nearing the completion of FEED and is very close to a final investment decision, as far as the state government is concerned — Mr E.S. Ripper : Do you know anything about the FEED at all? Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
(2) How many tonnes of the fabricated steel required by the Wheatstone project will be produced in Western Australian workshops? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(2) As if I would know the answer to that! If Wheatstone has finished its front-end engineering and design—its FEED—and is about to go into final investment decision, the question by definition is redundant because it has already happened. I will just stress that while the project is nearing the completion of FEED and is very close to a final investment decision, as far as the state government is concerned — Mr E.S. Ripper : Do you know anything about the FEED at all? Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(2) As if I would know the answer to that! If Wheatstone has finished its front-end engineering and design—its FEED—and is about to go into final investment decision, the question by definition is redundant because it has already happened. I will just stress that while the project is nearing the completion of FEED and is very close to a final investment decision, as far as the state government is concerned — Mr E.S. Ripper : Do you know anything about the FEED at all? Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
(1)–(2) As if I would know the answer to that! If Wheatstone has finished its front-end engineering and design—its FEED—and is about to go into final investment decision, the question by definition is redundant because it has already happened. I will just stress that while the project is nearing the completion of FEED and is very close to a final investment decision, as far as the state government is concerned — Mr E.S. Ripper : Do you know anything about the FEED at all? Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
(1) What proportion of the front-end engineering and design for the Wheatstone project is being undertaken or has been undertaken in Western Australia? (2) How many tonnes of the fabricated steel required by the Wheatstone project will be produced in Western Australian workshops? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(2) As if I would know the answer to that! If Wheatstone has finished its front-end engineering and design—its FEED—and is about to go into final investment decision, the question by definition is redundant because it has already happened. I will just stress that while the project is nearing the completion of FEED and is very close to a final investment decision, as far as the state government is concerned — Mr E.S. Ripper : Do you know anything about the FEED at all? Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
(2) How many tonnes of the fabricated steel required by the Wheatstone project will be produced in Western Australian workshops? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(2) As if I would know the answer to that! If Wheatstone has finished its front-end engineering and design—its FEED—and is about to go into final investment decision, the question by definition is redundant because it has already happened. I will just stress that while the project is nearing the completion of FEED and is very close to a final investment decision, as far as the state government is concerned — Mr E.S. Ripper : Do you know anything about the FEED at all? Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(2) As if I would know the answer to that! If Wheatstone has finished its front-end engineering and design—its FEED—and is about to go into final investment decision, the question by definition is redundant because it has already happened. I will just stress that while the project is nearing the completion of FEED and is very close to a final investment decision, as far as the state government is concerned — Mr E.S. Ripper : Do you know anything about the FEED at all? Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
(1)–(2) As if I would know the answer to that! If Wheatstone has finished its front-end engineering and design—its FEED—and is about to go into final investment decision, the question by definition is redundant because it has already happened. I will just stress that while the project is nearing the completion of FEED and is very close to a final investment decision, as far as the state government is concerned — Mr E.S. Ripper : Do you know anything about the FEED at all? Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : No; I am answering the question. The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
The state government negotiations have been concluded in, I think, a very satisfactory way, but a final investment decision has not yet been made. Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr E.S. Ripper : But FEED has occurred. Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : A final investment — Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr E.S. Ripper : How much of it has occurred in Western Australia? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
Mr C.J. BARNETT : It has not happened yet—a final investment decision is yet to be made. I hope a decision will be made; and if it is, I expect it to be not too far away. However, that is up to Chevron and its joint venture partners. The last thing I am going to do is pre-empt their commercial decision making and, indeed, pre-empt any announcement that they might make to the American stock exchange.
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