Australia
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February 2019
For years, Australia’s overall production rate has been shrinking. However, according to the U.S. EIA, additional production from new condensate and crude oil developments is expected to offset the decline over the next few years.
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February 06, 2019
Wood and KBR,Inc. have secured a new multi-million dollar contract to deliver integrated front-end engineering design (FEED) for Shell Australia’s Crux project to build a not normally manned (NNM) platform and gas export pipeline located approximately 373 mi (600 km) north of Broome, offshore Western Australia (WA).
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January 16, 2019
Subsea Integration Alliance today announced the award of integrated subsea engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contracts.
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January 2019
Total—alongside partners CNOOC Limited (45%), Petrobras (16%) and Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (15%)—has begun producing from Egina field, about 93 mi off the coast of Nigeria.
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January 09, 2019
Maersk Supply Service has been awarded a contract with Chevron Australia, which will see two of its newbuild anchor handling tug supply vessels support the Chevron-operated Gorgon Stage Two drilling program.
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January 08, 2019
Marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has set up an office in Perth, Western Australia, to support oil and gas developments in the Australasia region.
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December 18, 2018
Senex Energy Ltd. has successfully completed the initial flow test of the Gemba-1 gas exploration well in the Cooper basin, with stabilized flow rates of approximately 8 MMscfd, plus associated liquids.
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December 13, 2018
Total has signed an agreement to divest a 4% interest in the Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Australia to operating partner INPEX for an overall consideration of $1.6 billion.
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December 13, 2018
ExxonMobil said today that it has made a final investment decision to develop West Barracouta gas field in Bass Strait, to bring new gas supplies to the Australian domestic market.
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December 12, 2018
McDermott International, Inc. has announced they, with Baker Hughes, a GE company, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Western Gas Corporation Pty Ltd to be the exclusive development partners for the Equus Gas Project in Western Australia. The companies were also awarded a contract to support the planning phases of the project.
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November 26, 2018
Plans in Australia to import gas to ease a supply squeeze may fail to bring down domestic prices as it pits the nation against some of the world’s biggest buyers for supplies.
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November 18, 2018
Santos announced on 22 August 2018 the proposed acquisition of 100% of Quadrant Energy (Quadrant) for $2.15 billion, plus potential contingent payments.
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November 18, 2018
Santos is pleased to have been appointed as preferred tenderer to explore new acreage in Queensland’s key gas-producing Surat and Bowen Basins, in a 50-50 joint venture with Shell.
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November 2018
The technologies and techniques presented significantly reduce deepwater subsea equipment installation and recovery costs, reduce upfront capital equipment cost and facilitate optimized field development.
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October 29, 2018
Senex Energy announced today that it has made Final Investment Decisions (FID) to develop two natural gas projects in the Surat basin.
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October 23, 2018
Total announces that the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Ichthys LNG has left Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia, following the production start-up at the end of July.
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October 23, 2018
Australia’s $200 billion LNG boom has a final debut in the works: Shell’s Prelude, floating 124 mi off its northwest coast.
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October 16, 2018
The Inpex Corp.-operated Ichthys LNG export project in northern Australia may load its first cargo as soon as this week.
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October 11, 2018
The world's deepest installation of a CAN-ductor (Conductor Anchor Node suction pile with integrated conductor) well foundation has been completed after being successfully recovered from Woodside Energy's Ferrand-1 deepwater exploration well.
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September 26, 2018
Santos today outlined its plans to grow production to more than 100 MMboe by 2025, almost doubling current levels of production.
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September 26, 2018
The world’s biggest producer of liquefied natural gas wants to bulk up as competing supplies from Australia and the U.S. are also set to come to the market over the next decade.
