Australia

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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 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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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 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 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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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 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.
Article
March 2018
If the dam don’t break, recovery will continue
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February 23, 2018
Two of the world’s biggest energy producers have abandoned the sale of some of Australia’s oldest oil fields after running a 20-month sales process.
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February 20, 2018
Wood has been awarded the brownfield engineering services contract for the INPEX-operated Ichthys offshore facilities, located 220 km off the coast of Western Australia and onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facilities in Darwin, Northern Territory.
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February 15, 2018
National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) is supporting the Transforming Australia Subsea Equipment Reliability (TASER) project, led by Wood and in collaboration with Chevron, Shell and Woodside, by providing AUD $145,000 of funding over two years.
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February 14, 2018
Australia’s Woodside Petroleum finally got what it wanted from Exxon Mobil. And it only cost $744 million.
Article
February 2018
With the recovery definitely underway, Evercore ISI predicts global E&P spending to rise 7% in 2018 following a 4% increase in 2017 and a 33% decline in 2016.
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January 17, 2018
Commencing March 2018, Maersk Master and Maersk Mariner, Maersk Supply Service’s two first Starfish-class anchor handling vessels built in 2017, will be on contract with Quadrant Energy in Western Australia.
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