Meeting record - IVT14016 run-sheet - NOPSEMA and Woodside - 20.05.2025(52422540.2)_Redacted

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This FOI release is a single meeting record from a NOPSEMA and Woodside meeting held on 20 May 2025, made in support of the IVT14016 investigation. It notes that NOPSEMA set out the legislative context, inspection objectives and scope, and asked questions on each element, with details to be captured in Investigation Report A1209024. The key outcome recorded is that Woodside is suspending the activity until "summer" 2025, so that State and Commonwealth removal activities avoid southern right whale peak calving (May to October), giving an earliest start in November 2025. Contractual discussions with Subsea 7 remain underway, and the timeline could slip to 2026. The record states the delay will allow control measures for lost saddles to be refined so that impacts and risks are reduced to ALARP. Parts of the text are redacted.