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<\/p>\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday that Australia will consider building its first new oil refinery in more than 60 years, as conflict in the Middle East tightens overseas supplies and highlights the need to strengthen energy security.<\/p>\n
Albanese \u2060said the project will help build Australia’s resilience and sovereign capability on fuel, potentially helping shield the country from future supply shocks.<\/p>\n
If the project proves feasible, the new large-scale oil refinery will be built by industrial chemical producer Perdaman in Western Australia, Albanese said.<\/p>\n
“The war in the Middle East … is having an impact here, like it’s having an impact right around the world,” Albanese told reporters from Karratha in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.<\/p>\n
“One of the things that building national resilience does is it makes Australia less vulnerable to the impact of events around the \u2060world.”<\/p>\n
Albanese \u2060said his government and the Western Australia state government will jointly spend AU$4 million ($2.8 million) on a feasibility study for the refinery.<\/p>\n
“We want to make sure that we get the right location but we want to make sure as well that it’s a project that stacks up, that can go forward,” Albanese added.<\/p>\n
Australia depends on imports for about 80% of its fuel needs and has been racing to secure supplies amid the Iran war.<\/p>\n
The government’s push \u2060to cut its import dependence on oil comes after an Australian Treasury report warned that the global oil market has become more vulnerable “with weaker buffers against supply shocks.”<\/p>\n
Global oil inventory levels have dropped \u200bsince conflict in the Middle East intensified. At the same time, refined fuel markets are now at risk \u200bof tightening further, the treasury said in a briefing provided to Treasurer Jim Chalmers over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Most of Australia’s domestic oil refineries were \u2060built during \u200cthe 1950s \u200cand 1960s, but high operating costs and the emergence of \u2060large refineries across Asia forced many to \u200cshut down over the past three decades.<\/p>\n
Ampol’s Queensland refinery and the Viva Energy facility in Victoria \u2013 both \u200bon the country’s east \u2013 are the \u2060only two operational now, compared to eight in 2000.<\/p>\n
Western \u2060Australia’s only refinery was shut down in 2021 after BP decided to convert \u2060its 146,000 barrels per \u200bday Kwinana plant into a fuel import terminal.<\/p>\n
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