Australasia
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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 20, 2018
Kreuz Subsea has mobilized a new-build dive support vessel as part of its seven-year contract with Brunei Shell.
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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 12, 2018
New Zealand will stop granting offshore oil and gas exploration permits, saying it is committed to playing its part in tackling climate change.
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April 12, 2018
ExxonMobil Corp. today announced that the size of the natural gas resource at P’nyang field in Papua New Guinea has increased to 4.36 Tcf of gas, an 84% increase from a previous assessment completed in 2012.
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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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April 03, 2018
Harbour Energy CEO Linda Cook said she would seek to expand Santos in Asia and Africa after making a $10.3 billion offer for Australia’s third-largest energy producer.
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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 16, 2018
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), reached an agreement today to sell its shares in Shell entities in New Zealand, to OMV for $578 million.
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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
Article
March 2018
TAG Oil Ltd. (70%), operator of the Puka permit (PEP 51135) in New Zealand’s Taranaki basin, said the Pukatea-1 exploration well was drilled to 10,170 ft, MD, encountering variable hydrocarbon shows.
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February 26, 2018
Exxon Mobil has shut production platforms and a processing plant in the highlands of natural gas exporter Papua New Guinea after an earthquake struck the Pacific nation.
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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.
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February 13, 2018
TAG Oil Ltd. has provided a positive update on its Pukatea-1 exploration well, which was spudded on Jan. 24, 2018. The Pukatea-1 well is located in TAG Oil’s operated Puka permit (PEP 51135, 70% TAG Oil) in the Taranaki basin of New Zealand.
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February 2018
Outside of the U.S., a global recovery is on the horizon for the upstream oil and gas industry.
