The company (and its predecessors) started producing oil on Barrow Island in 1964--315 million barrels and counting so far.

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Gorgon sits on Barrow Island, 37 miles off the northwest coast of Australia.

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Barrow Island, 75 miles off the coast of Western Australia, was last connected to the mainland some 8, 000 years ago.

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