Australia
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September 12, 2016
The INPEX-led Ichthys LNG project has reached a key milestone with both its central processing facility (CPF) and FPSO facility safely starting up their main power generators in the South Korean shipyards where they are being constructed.
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September 09, 2016
Bengal Energy has announced that the first four wells of the Cuisinier 2016 five well drilling campaign have been cased as future oil producers in the Murta horizon.
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September 09, 2016
Frank Calabria, who was named Friday as Origin Energy Ltd.’s new CEO, said he’ll focus on paying down a A$9-billion ($6.8-billion) debt pile and consider more asset sales when he takes over from Grant King next month.
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September 08, 2016
Shell Australia has chosen Emerson to provide automation maintenance and reliability services for Shell’s Prelude FLNG facility.
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September 05, 2016
Woodside Petroleum may look to funnel gas from Scarborough field off Western Australia to one of its existing LNG plants after agreeing to a $400-million deal to buy half of BHP Billiton Ltd.’s stake in the remote offshore resource.
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August 26, 2016
Zilift, a developer of permanent magnet technologies for artificial lift applications, has signed an agreement with Auscoil, an oilfield services solutions provider for the Australian Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry.
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August 19, 2016
Woodside Petroleum Ltd. expects lower LNG prices as it renegotiates short-term contracts and says buyers across Asia will increasingly resist deals that restrict the reselling of the super-cooled fuel.
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August 18, 2016
Cooper Energy Limited has announced the recommencement of drilling by the PEL 92 joint venture with the spudding of Callawonga-12, an oil development and appraisal well located in PPL 220 on the western flank of the Cooper basin, South Australia.
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August 17, 2016
After spending billions of dollars constructing a world-class LNG export project in Australia, Santos Ltd. has found itself short of gas.
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August 16, 2016
The market for LNG is about to attract more players and more trading as new supply from the U.S. and Australia strengthens buyers’ bargaining power.
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August 14, 2016
Santos Ltd. will take a $1.05-billion writedown on the value of its Gladstone LNG project due to rising prices for third-party natural gas supplies and slower than expected ramp up of its own equity output.
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July 27, 2016
Technip has been awarded a large subsea contract by Woodside to support the development of the Greater Enfield Project offshore Western Australia.
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July 25, 2016
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. has announced the successful re-entry and casing of Amungee NW-1H horizontal well, and the spudding of the Beetaloo W-1 vertical well in the Beetaloo basin, Australia.
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July 2016
Despite state policies, tough economics stymie gas
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July 12, 2016
Searcher Seismic’s Olympus 3D Reprocessing Project in the Carnarvon basin, Western Australia, has commenced processing at DownUnder GeoSolutions’ Perth facility.
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July 01, 2016
Chevron Corp. halted output at its $54-billion Gorgon LNG development for the second time this year after a gas leak at the site, the latest problem for the Australian mega-project.
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June 29, 2016
TGS has announced the commencement of the Northwest Shelf Renaissance 2D seismic survey offshore northwest Australia. The survey consists of approximately 8,000 km of long offset, broadband 2D seismic data as well as magnetic and gravity data.
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June 27, 2016
Woodside and Mitsui E&P Australia have approved the $1.9-billion Greater Enfield Project for development.
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June 16, 2016
They’re among the oldest oil fields in Australia still in production. Now they are proving superfluous to some of the world’s biggest producers that are purging high-cost assets to weather crude’s collapse.
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June 15, 2016
Exxon Mobil Corp. and BHP Billiton Ltd. are studying plans to sell depleting energy assets in Australia, including the largest oil field ever discovered in the nation.
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June 01, 2016
Aqualis Offshore, a marine and offshore engineering consultancy, has signed a contract to provide position keeping services for the installation of the Ichthys LNG Project FPSO.
