Australia

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March 01, 2016
Origin Energy Ltd. has signed a non-binding heads of agreement with ENN LNG Trading Company Ltd. for the supply of 500,000 tonnes of LNG per year for a period of five years. By mutual agreement, the parties have the ability to extend the supply period by an additional five years.
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February 29, 2016
The Board of Woodside has appointed Ann Pickard as a non-executive director, effective Feb. 29, 2016.
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February 29, 2016
MEO Australia Limited has announced it has executed a Private Placement Agreement (PPA) with London listed Leni Gas Cuba Limited to raise $1.4 million, with funds to be used to advance MEO’s exploration program on the company’s newly awarded 2,380 km2 onshore oil block, Block 9 in Cuba.
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February 22, 2016
Woodside has awarded Wood Group a contract to provide the detailed design of the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) flowline system. The GWF-2 project is located on the North West Shelf, offshore Western Australia.
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February 18, 2016
Wood Group is calling for expressions of interest from technology vendors to support a joint industry project (JIP), which aims to reduce subsea equipment failures in Australia and provide a recommended practice for the subsea industry.
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February 05, 2016
BHP Billiton Petroleum has awarded Fugro a contract for the Pyrenees phase 3 installation project.
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January 25, 2016
FMC Technologies has signed an agreement with Woodside for the design, manufacture and supply of subsea production systems for the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) Project as part of the North West Shelf (NWS) Project in Western Australia.
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January 20, 2016
After years of delays, cost overruns and labor unrest, Chevron Corp.’s Gorgon project, one of the world’s most expensive liquefied natural gas ventures, faces another challenge: the weakest energy prices in more than a decade.
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January 19, 2016
Wood Group has secured a three-year contract with Shell Australia’s Prelude FLNG project.
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January 18, 2016
Chevron Corp. announced Monday that its Australian subsidiaries have signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement (HoA) with ENN LNG Trading Company (ENN) for the delivery of LNG to China from the Chevron-operated Gorgon natural gas project in Australia.
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January 18, 2016
Chevron Australia has commenced the cool-down of the LNG export system, following the recent arrival of a commissioning LNG cargo at the Chevron-operated Gorgon natural gas plant on Barrow Island, Western Australia.
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January 13, 2016
Delmar is answering the call for better risk assessment software in Australia with the launch of ConStatAU.
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January 13, 2016
Wood Mackenzie's latest review of the global LNG industry concludes that the market was characterized by weak Asian demand in 2015, with a year-on-year decline of 2%.
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January 12, 2016
Fugro’s Seafloor Drill 2 (SFD2) has completed a challenging multi-site investigation across the North West Shelf of Australia, encountering variable calcareous sediments and delivering results to support a jack-up drilling campaign.
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January 11, 2016
The first cargo of LNG has departed from the Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG) facility on Curtis Island in Queensland, Australia, ConocoPhillips said Monday.
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January 11, 2016
Asset Guardian Solutions Ltd (AGSL), which specializes in protecting companies’ process control software assets has landed another contract to support an oil and gas supermajor in Perth, Western Australia.
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January 11, 2016
Peak Well Systems has appointed Neil Poxon as Global Business Development Director, effective immediately.
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January 05, 2016
The AWE-operated L1/L2 joint venture has made the final investment decision (FID) for Stage 1A of the Waitsia gas field development project, in the onshore Perth basin, Western Australia.
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December 29, 2015
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd is pleased to announce that it has executed final agreements with members of the QGOG Constellation S.A. Group to contract the Olinda Star semi‐submersible drilling rig.
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December 28, 2015
The GLNG project participants have executed an agreement with AGL Energy Ltd. (AGL) for the purchase of 254 petajoules of gas for supply to the GLNG project, Santos, the project’s operator, has announced.
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December 17, 2015
Wood Group has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the Woodside-operated proposed Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) development.
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