
Reducing the number of people exposed to the hazards of oil and gas facilities is a long-established trend to improve safety and reduce costs; it does, however, introduce a different set of risks to be managed. Woodside Energy has been on this journey for several years now, starting in 2008 with the Angel facility – a not normally occupied gas platform offshore Western Australia. This journey continued with the more remote Pluto A not normally occupied platform in 2012, feeding the Pluto LNG facility which transitioned to a remotely supported organisation in 2015. The LNG facility will transfer control room operations to a remote support centre in Perth – 1000 miles away – in mid-2023, which will then grow to become an integrated remote operations centre including Scarborough and Pluto Train 2 in 2023. This presentation will include discussion of the challenges faced, lessons learned, and technologies deployed – and where these trends may lead us in the future.