Australia

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July 08, 2015
Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring has been awarded a contract for the provision of mooring and rig positioning services to the Australian oil and gas company Woodside.
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July 08, 2015
Subsea 7 has been awarded four contracts, by Chevron Australia Pty Ltd and INPEX Operations Australia Pty Ltd, for the engineering, procurement and construction of an emergency pipeline repair system (EPRS) to be used offshore Australia.
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July 2015
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July 06, 2015
Woodside Energy and OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, announced Monday that OneSubsea has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the proposed Woodside-operated Browse FLNG Development offshore northwest Australia.
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July 06, 2015
Karoon Gas Australia has commenced the high impact Levitt-1 exploration well in WA-482-P Carnarvon basin, offshore Western Australia.
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July 06, 2015
Drydocks World has marked a major milestone in successfully completing the world’s largest turret mooring system at Shell's Prelude FLNG off Australia.
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July 02, 2015
Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring has been awarded a contract for the provision of mooring and rig positioning services to the Australian oil and gas company Quadrant Energy Ltd.
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July 01, 2015
Woodside, as a participant in the Browse FLNG Development, advised Wednesday that an agreement has been reached to enter the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase for the proposed development.
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July 01, 2015
Wood Group has secured a $1-million contract with Origin Energy to provide detailed design engineering for the onshore pipelines related to the Halladale, Black Watch & Speculant (HBWS) Natural Gas Project in South West Victoria, Australia.
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June 29, 2015
Origin Energy Ltd. expects China Petrochemical Corp. to fulfill its agreement to purchase liquefied natural gas from a A$24.7 billion ($19 billion) export project in Australia.
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June 25, 2015
Woodside has received retention lease renewal offers for petroleum retention leases WA-28-R, WA-29-R, WA-30-R, WA-31-R, WA-32-R, TR/5 and R2, from the Commonwealth-Western Australia Offshore Petroleum Joint Authority and the WA Minister for Mines and Petroleum. Woodside has 30 days to accept the retention lease renewal offers.
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June 22, 2015
TGS has announced its participation in the 2,500 km2 Monuments 3D survey.
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June 12, 2015
Chevron is studying data from its largest-ever seismic survey to decide where to drill for oil in an untapped frontier off southern Australia.
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June 10, 2015
An equipment failure that’s delayed Chevron Corp.’s $5.1 billion Big Foot deepwater oil project will reduce the company’s production target by less than 25,000 bopd in 2017, the company said.
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June 09, 2015
Bechtel is on track to complete the construction of an additional three LNG production trains on Curtis Island by the end of 2015, quadrupling Queensland’s LNG production.
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June 05, 2015
Apache Corp. has completed the sale of its Australian subsidiary, Apache Energy Limited, to a consortium of private equity funds managed by Macquarie Corporate Holdings Limited and Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
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June 03, 2015
Oil declined amid speculation that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may increase its production quota when the group meets on Friday.
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June 01, 2015
Atlas Knowledge has been awarded a contract by INPEX to provide training for production workers involved in the US$34 billion Ichthys LNG Project.
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May 25, 2015
Buru Energy has commenced its extensive 2015 exploration drilling program with the spudding of the Olympic 1 conventional oil well located southeast of Broome in Western Australia.
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May 21, 2015
BG Group announced Thursday that operational control of Train 1 at its Queensland Curtis LNG plant has been formally transferred to QGC, BG Group's Australian subsidiary, from Bechtel Australia, which constructed the facility.
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May 19, 2015
BP Plc plans to sell part of its oil project off southern Australia, before an exploration campaign that’s slated to start late next year at a cost of more than $800 million (A$1 billion).
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