Coniston/Novara (Ceased)

The Coniston and Novara heavy oil fields are located in the Exmouth sub-basin, within the Carnarvon Basin, offshore Western Australia. Novara was discovered by Esso Australia in 1982 and Coniston in 2000 by BHP Billiton. The fields lie seven kilometres north of the Van Gogh field and 15 kilometres north-northwest of the Pyrenees area. Coniston is located in production licences WA-35-L and WA-55-L. Novara lies wholly in production licence WA-35-L. Santos operates the Van Gogh, Coniston, and Novara oil fields together using the Ningaloo Vision floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel. Santos and INPEX purchased the Ningaloo Vision FPSO for US$185 million in January 2012, following the startup of Van Gogh in February 2010. Coniston was brought onstream as a subsea tieback to the FPSO in 2015, and Novara in 2016. Coniston and Novara were developed via six and one subsea wells, respectively.