Ashurst advises Sheffield on LNG agreement

Under the agreement, Woodside will provide 1,950 terajoules per annum of LNG from its Pluto LNG Truck Loading Facility near Karratha for the Thunderbird Mineral Sands Project. 

Sheffield's Thunderbird Mineral Sands Project is a world class mineral sands deposit located in the north of Western Australia. Ashurst is advising Sheffield across key aspects of the Thunderbird Mineral Sands Project financing, development and construction.

In a statement to the ASX, Sheffield said that LNG provides Sheffield with a low cost, low emission fuel source that is ideally suited to the ilmenite low temperature roast process proposed for the Thunderbird processing plant.

The Ashurst team was led by partner Gaelan Cooney with the deal principally managed by senior associate Caroline Lindsey. Senior associates Marina Tinning and Natalie Barris, and associate Michelle Gaynor supported.