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March 13, 2015
Texas LNG, a closely held company planning a $1.3 billion liquefied natural gas project in the U.S., has started talks with potential customers, targeting companies in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia.
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March 12, 2015
Chevron Australia has awarded DOF Subsea Asia Pacific a three year Master Services Agreement, IMR contract to work on projects on the Australian North West Shelf.
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March 10, 2015
Beach Energy has reported a new Birkhead formation oil discovery at Stanleys-1 in PRL 171 and provided initial results from the first development well of the second Bauer field pad drilling campaign.
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March 09, 2015
Tap Oil Limited has been awarded 100% of Blocks W14-7 and W14-16 in the prospective Barrow and Dampier sub-basins on Australia’s North West Shelf.
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March 06, 2015
GE has announced the official opening of a new oil and gas facility in Broome, Western Australia, specifically designed to service subsea projects.
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March 05, 2015
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it will not oppose Woodside’s proposed acquisition of Apache Corporation’s interests in the Wheatstone, Balnaves and Kitimat Projects.
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March 02, 2015
CGG has started acquiring the Davros 3D BroadSeis and BroadSource multi-client survey in the Northern Carnarvon basin on the North West Shelf of Western Australia.
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March 02, 2015
PERTH, Australia -- Otto Energy Philippines, a subsidiary of Otto Energy, has signed a farm-in agreement with Red Emperor Resources to earn a 15% working interest in SC55, offshore the Philippines.
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February 25, 2015
McDermott International and Petrofac have formed a strategic marketing alliance to pursue top-tier deepwater subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) projects.
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February 24, 2015
Senex Energy a Namur oil discovery at Martlet North-1 under PL 1481 on the western flank of the South Australian Cooper basin.
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February 24, 2015
INPEX's subsidiary, INPEX Browse has been awarded exploration permits for release areas WA-513-P and WA-514-P.
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February 24, 2015
Asset Guardian Solutions Ltd. (AGSL), which specialises in protecting companies’ process critical software assets, has secured a deal with an oil and gas supermajor in Perth, Western Australia.
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February 20, 2015
Two West Australian-based oilfield services providers have been purchased by global offshore equipment firm OEG Offshore.
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February 17, 2015
A shortage of coal-seam gas, needed to feed about $60 billion of export projects in eastern Australia, may prompt the developers to reduce shipments in the long term, according to Credit Suisse Group.
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February 17, 2015
LIMASSOL,Cyprus -- Deep Sea Supply has agreed on a one year firm plus one year options contract with Petrobras for the PSV Sea Brasil for operations in Brazil.
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February 13, 2015
Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Woodside Energy for the Persephone Work Pack 2 fabrication, subsea installation and diving services project, offshore Australia.
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February 12, 2015
GLADSTONE, Queensland -- Australia Pacific LNG announced Wednesday that it had reached a significant milestone with the arrival of first gas from its coal seam gas fields in the Surat basin to its LNG facility on Curtis Island, near Gladstone, Queensland.
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February 11, 2015
Tap Oil has advised WHL Energy that it has elected not to exercise its option to acquire 10% interest in exploration permit Vic/P67 in the offshore Otway basin.
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February 09, 2015
Otto Marine has secured two long term charter contracts for two PSVs to an oil major in Australia.
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February 04, 2015
Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has secured a contract with Woodside to provide the FEED of the flowline system, and associated procurement support, for the proposed Greater Western Flank Phase 2 (GWF-2) development for the North West Shelf Project, offshore Western Australia.
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February 04, 2015
Inpex Corp. announced Wednesday that the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project had started drilling at the Ichthys gas-condensate field, about 200 km off the Western Australian coast.
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