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December 07, 2023
The Santos-Woodside discussions also illustrate the growing importance of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the industry, as executives expect the fuel to be needed for decades in Asia as part of the energy transition.
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November 27, 2023
The planned program, to be conducted by Condor Energy Service, includes 10 stimulation stages within the Amungee Member B-shale over a 500-meter horizontal section of SS1H.
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November 22, 2023
(WO) — Santos and energy infrastructure business, APA Group, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the potential development of CO2 infrastructure throughout eastern Australia.
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November 21, 2023
(WO) — Sparrows Group, a global maintenance and engineering services specialist, has secured a significant contract to provide crane maintenance services for the ExxonMobil PNG LNG project.
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November 15, 2023
(WO) — Santos and joint venture partner Beach Energy have secured significant additional carbon storage acreage by being awarded a Gas Storage Retention license southwest of Moomba.
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October 17, 2023
Workers accepted Chevron’s proposed settlement Tuesday on pay and working conditions and will not move forward with a labor action planned for Thursday, according to a statement from the Offshore Alliance union group.
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October 16, 2023
The A3H well was drilled, cased and cemented to a total measured depth (“TD”) of 3,837 m, including a horizontal section of 1,100 m in the Amungee Member B-shale.
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October 09, 2023
Workers at Chevron Corp.’s liquefied natural gas facilities in Australia gave notice Monday to resume strikes, a move that could disrupt supplies and send prices higher.
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October 06, 2023
A spokesperson for Chevron Australia said the company has consistently engaged in an effort to finalize the agreements and will continue to do so.
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September 22, 2023
Workers accepted a proposed settlement on pay and conditions put forward by the country’s labor regulator and will suspend industrial action, the Offshore Alliance, a grouping of two major unions, confirmed Friday in a statement.
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September 21, 2023
If the unions also endorse the agreement, then it would end industrial action at the Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG facilities that has roiled global gas markets.
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September 18, 2023
Scheduled LNG deliveries from the Wheatstone gas facility were not impacted by a fault that occurred on Sept. 14 and domestic supply was also unaffected, the company said Monday in a statement.
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September 15, 2023
Decisions to continue the full-day strikes will be made daily, according to an official at one of the unions representing the workers.
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September 13, 2023
The country, which vies with Qatar as the top shipper of super-chilled liquefied natural gas (LNG), is facing looming pressures on domestic energy supply amid coal-fired power station closures and a lack of developments to offset declining output.
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September 12, 2023
The gas producer must participate in further mediation with the unions before the date of the hearing, Fair Work Commission President Adam Hatcher said in a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
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September 11, 2023
The producer has asked the Fair Work Commission to make intractable bargaining declarations for the Gorgon and Wheatstone facilities, adding to a similar request already lodged in relation to the Wheatstone platform, a Chevron spokesman said.
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September 08, 2023
The start of the industrial action marks the culmination of weeks-long discussions that have kept markets on edge. Unions first threatened to pursue strikes at the Chevron sites and Woodside Energy Group Ltd.’s facilities in early August.
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September 07, 2023
Chevron’s Gorgon and Wheatstone plants together supplied about 7% of the world’s LNG last year, and unions have planned to start with partial strikes if no resolution is reached.
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September 06, 2023
The new deadline for industrial action at the Gorgon and Wheatstone plants is 6 a.m. local time Friday, a Chevron Australia spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The unions previously threatened to start partial strikes on Sep. 7 and then escalate to full stoppages that would begin Sep. 14 and last two weeks.
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September 05, 2023
The workers have served Chevron notice that they plan full stoppages from Sept. 14, following partial strikes from Sept. 7, the Offshore Alliance grouping said Tuesday on Facebook.
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September 04, 2023
A Chevron spokesman confirmed that workers voted against the proposed agreements and said it was “part of the bargaining process and an important step which enabled employees to share their views.”
