Santos Gas Project

Santos is proposing to drill 850 wells in what's known as the Pilega Forest. The project would see up to 850 gas wells built across 95,000 hectares of state forest and privately owned farmland near Narrowbry in northwest New South Wales. It has no approval to mine Colesam gas on the Liverpool clients - that becomes a new project if they ask for approval. Santos' big plan for this region originally was seven gas fields from Dubbo to Marrondai to Morrie but people are coming together over this gas field because they value ground water. But it could provide up to 1300 jobs during construction, up to 200 local direct and indirect jobs during operations.