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August 21, 2023
The Offshore Alliance, a group representing two major labor unions, said in a social media post Sunday workers had “unanimously endorsed” giving Woodside seven working days to take industrial action if enterprise bargaining claims “are not resolved” by close of business Wednesday, when Woodside and officials representing workers intend to hold new talks.

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August 21, 2023
The permit covers an area of 418 km2 in the Timor Sea, approximately 250 km northeast of the Ichthys offshore facilities. This permit includes the Cash and Maple gas and condensate fields, discovered in 2002 and 1989 respectively, and subsequently appraised by several wells.

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August 14, 2023
The acquisition is earnings and cashflow accretive for Strike and will provide a platform in which Strike can escalate the pace of development of its highly attractive Perth basin gas assets.

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August 10, 2023
European natural gas fluctuated Thursday as traders weighed the prospects of any major impact and erased some of the 28% surge the previous day — a move not seen since the early weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year that upended global supply of the fuel.

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August 07, 2023
The project has the potential to reduce the absolute emissions and emissions intensity of Australian and Timor-Leste gas and LNG projects, as well as other hard to abate industries in the region.

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August 04, 2023
With over 20 years of experience in management roles within the marine, oil and gas industries, Warren McHardie brings diverse expertise to the position.

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August 01, 2023
The SS1H well, which will include a horizontal section of approximately 1,000 m, will target the Amungee Member B-shale at an estimated target depth of 3,200 m (approximately 700 m deeper than the Amungee NW-2H (“A2H”) well in EP 98).

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August 01, 2023
C-Kore Systems has successfully completed a decommissioning campaign offshore Australia, using C-Kore Sensor Monitor units to interrogate the wellhead pressure and temperature sensors on the subsea oilfield.

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July 11, 2023
Under the contract scope, McDermott will provide project management and engineering services for the recovery, transportation and offloading of the DTM buoy to a suitable onshore yard facility for dismantling and disposal.

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June 29, 2023
Transocean Ltd. announced a 16-well binding award for the Transocean Equinox in Australia for a consortium of four operators. The engagement includes options that, if fully exercised, could keep the Transocean Equinox working in Australia into 2028.

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June 22, 2023
This 3D is crucial to enhancing the geological understanding of the sparsely explored offshore Gulf of Papua and developing drill ready prospects like those recently identified by a supermajor in the permit immediately adjacent to the Nanamarope 3D.

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June 15, 2023
The company will tie back four subsea gas wells in the Carnarvon basin to the existing Julimar subsea infrastructure producing to the Wheatstone platform, using high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) flexible pipe and steel tube umbilicals.
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May 2023
After 60 years of E&P activity, the Cooper basin remains Australia’s largest onshore O&G province, supplying domestic gas markets in southeastern Australia and export markets via the Gladstone LNG plant. This strategic basin has potential for further discoveries, as well as opportunities to play a key role in Australia’s energy transition through CCS projects in depleted fields.

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April 29, 2023
“The Browse asset is no longer a strategic fit in the context of Shell’s global portfolio,” Shell said in a statement Saturday, without elaborating on the size of the deal.

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March 22, 2023
The A2H well was drilled to a total depth (TD) of 3,883 meters, including a 1,275-meter horizontal section within the Amungee Member B Shale in the Beetaloo Sub-Basin, Northern Territory, Australia.

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February 14, 2023
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority has accepted Santos’ Offshore Project Proposal for the Dorado development offshore Western Australia.

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December 23, 2022
The A2H well has been drilled to a total depth of 3,883 m, including a 1,275 m horizontal section within the Amungee Member B Shale in the Beetaloo Sub-Basin, Northern Territory, Australia with Tamboran Pty Limited.

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December 22, 2022
The outage comes just after Prelude resumed loading this week following roughly two months of maintenance. This is another setback for the world’s biggest floating LNG plant, which has struggled with ongoing technical issues since it started in 2019.

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November 30, 2022
Carlyle Group Inc. is exploring a multibillion-dollar bid for a large part of Austrian energy company OMV AG’s oil and gas portfolio, in what would be a bold move by a buyout firm to further expand into fossil fuels, people familiar with the matter said.

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November 14, 2022
Chevron Corp. company sees potential for geological formations such as those at its Gorgon liquefied natural gas facility in Western Australia to be used for storage of third-party emissions from Asia.

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October 04, 2022
Petrofac has officially taken over operatorship of the Northern Endeavour FPSO facility on behalf of the Australia Government, marking a major milestone in the landmark decommissioning contract.