Santos, an Australian oil and gas company, has announced that the BW Opal floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel has received its first gas from the $4.5bn (A$6.83bn) Barossa LNG project offshore northern Australia. The floating unit serves as the central production hub for the Barossa project. The news comes after the BW Opal reached its ready-for-start-up (RFSU) status on 16 September and gas began to flow from the subsea wells last week. The BW Opal FPSO is set to be permanently st ...