Exercise BLUE RAPTOR - Replenishment at Sea
Channel: Royal Australian Navy
Date: 03/09/2013

HMA Ships Warramunga and Sydney conducted Replenishment at Sea with HMAS Sirius as they transit through the North West Shelf.

Royal Australian Navy HMA Ships Warramunga, Sydney and Sirius are conducting a patrol of the area of the Australia's North West Shelf Oil and Gas Infrastructure as they transit from Cairns to Western Australia.

The North West Shelf is Australia's largest oil and gas resource development and accounts and is of vital strategic and economic importance to Australia. Royal Australian Navy units routinely patrol Australia maritime borders to safeguard against unlawful interference with off shore facilities.