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November 22, 2016
Veolia has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract for the supply of the customized water flood water treatment system on the Ngujima-Yin Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility that will operate in Woodside’s Greater Enfield Area Development fields, offshore northwest Australia.
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November 15, 2016
Woodside has completed its acquisition of half of BHP Billiton’s Scarborough area assets in the Carnarvon basin, located offshore Western Australia.
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October 21, 2016
Santos, the Australian oil and gas company, reported an 11% rise in third-quarter sales due to a boost in production.
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October 19, 2016
Successful Well Test in Bedout Basin Offshore Western Australia
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October 14, 2016
Statoil has informed the New Zealand Government of its decision to stop looking for oil and gas in the Reinga basin.
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October 13, 2016
BP picked up new offshore Australia gas fields to expand supply options for the North West Shelf LNG venture.
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October 12, 2016
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. has announced that Origin Energy Resources Limited, the company's Joint Venture partner, has submitted a notification of discovery and an initial report on discovery to the Department of Primary Industry and Resources (DPIR) of the Northern Territory, Australia on the A mungee NW - 1H well in the Beetaloo basin, Australia.
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October 12, 2016
Searcher Seismic has commenced acquisition of the 11,000 km Hahonua 2D seismic survey offshore Papua New Guinea.
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October 11, 2016
BP has abandoned oil exploration in the offshore Great Australian Bight, five years after it began searching for resources in one of the world’s last frontier regions and before it could drill a single well.
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October 07, 2016
Karoon Gas Australia has been awarded a license for exploration permit EPP46. The permit covers 17,793 km2 of Australia’s most active and prospective frontier oil province, the Ceduna sub‐basin, in the Great Australian Bight (GAB), offshore South Australia.
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October 03, 2016
INPEX, Japan’s largest E&P company, has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a consultancy contract for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia.
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September 22, 2016
Papua New Guinea is backing a new greenfield liquefied natural gas facility led by France’s Total SA, in addition to an expansion of the existing $19-billion Exxon Mobil Corp. PNG LNG project.
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September 22, 2016
CGG announced today that the final pre-stack depth-migrated data for Phase 1 of its Davros 3D BroadSeis and BroadSource multi-client survey in the northern Carnarvon basin on the North West Shelf of Western Australia is available now.
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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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September 02, 2016
When it comes to natural gas, Exxon Mobil Corp. believes in playing the long game.
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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 23, 2016
Oil Search Ltd. said development of a second standalone LNG export terminal in Papua New Guinea is unlikely with Exxon Mobil Corp. and Total SA expected to favor cooperation to expand the existing PNG LNG project.
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