Projects
Australian Oil Co has made operational progress across its Surat Basin assets in Queensland, with a production turnaround at its Emu Apple oil field and facility upgrades ahead of a planned restart at Riverslea. Following a successful acid wash intervention, the Emu Apple-1 well is now delivering a sustained flow…
Santos loads first crude oil cargo from Alaska Pikka project
Santos has successfully loaded the inaugural crude oil cargo from its Pikka Phase 1 development on Alaska’s North Slope. The first shipment comprised 450,000 barrels of Alaska North Slope crude, loaded onto the tanker Polar Resolution at the Valdez Marine Terminal. The vessel is bound for refining networks along the…
Eastern Gas starts drilling at Venus-2H gas appraisal well in Surat Basin
Eastern Gas Corp. Ltd. has commenced drilling at the Venus-2H horizontal appraisal well within its Project Venus (ATP 2051) in Queensland’s Surat Basin. The start of drilling marks the company's first drilling campaign since listing on the ASX and represents the region’s first horizontal coal seam gas (CSG) well. Drilling…
Gold Hydrogen reports outstanding helium results at Ramsay project
Gold Hydrogen Ltd. has completed appraisal flow testing at Ramsay 1 on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula, with test results showing an outstanding helium results for future commercial development. The company achieved a major technical milestone by extracting, purifying, and bottling high-grade helium on-site. The milestone marks the first time helium…
Vaalco reports strong gas supply well results offshore Gabon
Vaalco Energy has announced operational updates on its ongoing drilling program offshore Gabon, highlighting positive results from the ETBNM-3 well and the start of drilling operations on the ETSEM-3PH well. The company successfully drilled, completed and placed on production the ETBNM-3 gas-supply well, located in the crestal portion of the…
Petrobras confirms new offshore gas discovery in Colombia
Brazilian state-owned energy company Petrobras has announced a new natural gas discovery at the Sandia-1 exploratory well, situated in the deep waters of Block GUA-OFF-0 off the coast of Colombia. The Sandia-1 well was drilled approximately 42 kilometres off the Colombian coast in a water depth of 1,251 metres. Located…
Atlantis project boosts production with new injection wells
BP has begun production at its Atlantis Major Facility Expansion project in the US Gulf of Mexico, adding roughly 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) to output from the long-running Atlantis field. The expansion centres on two new subsea water injection wells at the field, situated about 150…
Woodside’s Browse project wins key WA government backing
Woodside Energy has welcomed a decision by the Western Australian government to designate the proposed Browse to North West Shelf Project as a State Significant Project, a move the company says reflects the development's strategic importance to the state and strengthens the framework for whole-of-government support as it advances through…











