Santos Loses Appeal for Huge Northern Territory Gas Works

Protesters taking part in a national day of action against mining giant Santos, in Sydney, Australia on December 3, 2020. AAP Image/Dean Lewins

Gas giant Santos has lost its bid to restart drilling at a multimillion-dollar gas field off the Tiwi Islands, but the company is confident the project can stay on track.

The full Federal Court on Friday dismissed Santos’s appeal, upholding an earlier decision that the offshore gas regulator should not have approved drilling in the Barossa gas field, 265 kilometres northwest of Darwin.