Woodside File Note Minerva Field Joint Cuts ALARP assessment - 24-03-2025(52341681.1) (002)_Redacted

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This is a Woodside Energy internal file note dated 24 March 2025 concerning the ALARP (as low as reasonably practicable) assessment for pipe cutting during decommissioning of the Minerva facilities, offshore Victoria. It reproduces an excerpt from the Minerva decommissioning environment plan, which estimates about 4.75 cubic metres of concrete spall from hydraulic shear cutting of the pipeline bundle, and notes that a saw could release polyethylene coating and swarf. The note records that the actual concrete loss may exceed the EP estimate and that release of polyethylene coating, polypropylene twine and spacers was not expected. It describes onshore and onboard trial cuts of duplex spools and carbon steel field joints with Densopol tape, with the first inconclusive and a second planned for 27 March. Most of the text is redacted under section 47(1)(b) of the FOI Act.