Australasia
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June 08, 2018
Searcher Seismic has announced the expansion of its modern, high-quality and exploration focused seismic, magnetic and geochemical focused production offerings offshore Papua New Guinea with the completion of the Laurabada UltracubeTM 3D reprocessing project.
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June 04, 2018
In April 2018, the New Zealand government announced that it would no longer grant new offshore oil and gas exploration permits. According to leading data and analytics company GlobalData, the suspension of new offshore licensing is unlikely to have an immediate impact on the oil or gas sector, but does signal the possibility of increased restrictions in the future.
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May 31, 2018
Santos and its GLNG Partners will invest more than A$400 million in the 137-well Arcadia gas project in the Bowen basin, in Queensland’s Central Highlands region.
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May 23, 2018
The tiny, impoverished nation of Papua New Guinea came out on the short end of a $19-billion development with ExxonMobil Corp. to build one of Asia-Pacific’s biggest energy projects. But as the company pushes to expand the venture, the government is vowing that round two may require a much bigger payday for the locals.
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May 22, 2018
Santos Ltd. rejected Harbour Energy Ltd.’s $10.9-billion final offer and terminated talks, saying its proposal was too low and too risky.
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May 21, 2018
Harbour Energy Ltd. made a final sweetened bid of $10.9 billion for Santos Ltd., claiming support from the Australian oil and gas producer’s biggest shareholders.
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May 17, 2018
The Directors of UIL Energy Ltd. have announced the progress achieved at Walyering gas field, located in the southern part of EP447, in Australia's Perth basin.
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May 16, 2018
The energy industry in Australia, looking back on an era of waste and profligacy, is now preaching the gospel of thrift and collaboration as it tries to attract more investment in an age of fiscal discipline.
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May 15, 2018
The gas market is being flipped upside down.
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April 23, 2018
Santos has announced that agreement has been reached with our joint venture partners to enter the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase for the development of the Barossa project to backfill Darwin LNG (DLNG).
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April 20, 2018
Kreuz Subsea has mobilized a new-build dive support vessel as part of its seven-year contract with Brunei Shell.
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April 17, 2018
Australia’s Northern Territory has ended its ban on hydraulic fracturing, boosting the prospects for energy explorers operating in some of the country’s largest petroleum resources.
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April 12, 2018
New Zealand will stop granting offshore oil and gas exploration permits, saying it is committed to playing its part in tackling climate change.
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April 12, 2018
ExxonMobil Corp. today announced that the size of the natural gas resource at P’nyang field in Papua New Guinea has increased to 4.36 Tcf of gas, an 84% increase from a previous assessment completed in 2012.
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April 09, 2018
Chinese company ENN said it will consider a $10.3-billion takeover from U.S. suitor Harbour Energy for Santos Australian LNG exporter.
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April 03, 2018
Harbour Energy CEO Linda Cook said she would seek to expand Santos in Asia and Africa after making a $10.3 billion offer for Australia’s third-largest energy producer.
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March 29, 2018
Woodside advises that the acquisition of ExxonMobil’s interest in Scarborough gas field has been completed. The effective date of the transaction is Jan. 1, 2018.
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March 16, 2018
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), reached an agreement today to sell its shares in Shell entities in New Zealand, to OMV for $578 million.
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March 15, 2018
An average capex of $7.1 billion per year is forecast to be spent on 31 upcoming oil and gas fields in Oceania between 2018 and 2025, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
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March 14, 2018
After a decade planning the world’s largest floating gas export plant, Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s supplies could get tapped by a competitor first.
Article
March 2018
The EPCI solution was just one of many engineering feats within the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project, offshore Australia.
