Petrofac has been awarded a $325 million decommissioning contract for the stranded oil production vessel, while federal parliament has imposed a levy on the industry to foot the bill.
Carnarvon Energy is chasing institutional backing to support its Dorado oil discovery last week, earning newcomer Barrenjoey Markets its second WA deal.
Santos and its junior exploration partner Carnarvon Energy have struck a discovery believed to host 43 million barrels of oil east of Western Australia’s Dorado field.
Theia Energy’s plan to drill two exploration wells in the Canning Basin, including through fracking, will be subject to the highest level of scrutiny by the environmental regulator.
Woodside hopes to make ethanol from carbon emissions through a deal with two US businesses, while BP recently signed Honeywell for green diesel technology at the old Kwinana refinery site.
Perdaman Group is another step closer to building its $4.3 billion urea plant on the Burrup Peninsula, after the plan was unanimously approved by the regional planning body.
The state’s environment minister has ordered the EPA to review a series of Gorgon LNG approvals, while the Gorgon Stage 2 project will be about $US1 billion under budget.
Plans for Perdaman Group’s 2 million tonne urea plant on the Burrup Peninsula have been recommended for approval at a development assessment meeting next week.
The Supreme Court has thrown out two appeals by the state’s conservation council to review the approval of Woodside’s $16.5 billion Scarborough project.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison won't freeze fuel excise, even as global oil prices near $US100 per barrel with Russia and Ukraine on the brink of all-out war.
Woodside's new leadership team will be split across Perth and Houston and include five BHP executives, in line with the merged entity's elevated global profile.
Oil junior Triangle Energy will start trading tomorrow with an entirely different board compared to just one week ago, when it had announced its then chief executive had resigned.
Shares in Subiaco oil play 88 Energy were down 14 per cent on the back of announcing a completed $32 million capital raising offered to institutional and sophisticated investors.
Shares in marine and subsea services provider MMA Offshore have risen more than 8 per cent following the company’s announcement of a $68 million contract extension with Japan's Inpex.
Santos has booked 100 million tonnes of carbon storage resource within South Australia's Cooper Basin while reporting a substantial increase in reserves on the back of its Oil Search merger.
A restart on Shell’s Prelude floating LNG vessel is still some time away, Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden said, with the pandemic making workforce movements more difficult.
Western Gas has secured all necessary government approvals needed to drill on the North West Shelf’s Sasanof-1 exploration well with drilling to start in the coming months.
Brookside Energy has booked a maiden operating profit for the quarter on the back of an 800 per cent surge in earnings following first production at its flagship Jewell Well.
A $4 billion-plus fertiliser plant proposed on the Burrup Peninsula has received ministerial approval, moving entrepreneur Vikas Rambal’s dream project a step closer.
Defence Minister Peter Dutton says there are "many worrying signs" from Russia on the Ukrainian border as Europe looks to Australia as a potential gas supplier with Kremlin tensions increasing.
