Projects

  • Queensland Pacific Metals receives $3m grant for Frontier Gas Exploration

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    Queensland Pacific Metals receives $3m grant for Frontier Gas Exploration

    Queensland Pacific Metals Ltd (ASX: QPM) has announced that its subsidiary, QPM Energy, has been awarded a $3 million Frontier Gas Exploration Grant by the Queensland government. This grant, part of the Quee... more

  • Azule Energy and Rhino Resources enter strategic agreement for offshore Namibian block

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    Azule Energy and Rhino Resources partner in offshore Namibian block

    Azule Energy, in a significant move marking its first international deal since its inception in 2022, has partnered with Rhino Resources Namibia for a strategic farm-in agreement concerning Block 2914A (PEL85) ... more

  • Successful first oil production at Eldfisk North Project in the North Sea

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    Oil production starts at Eldfisk North Project in the North Sea

    The Eldfisk North Project, located in the Greater Ekofisk Area in the North Sea and operated by ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, has commenced its first oil production several weeks ahead of schedule. The Eld... more

  • BlueNord ASA provides update on Tyra II commissioning

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    Technical issue with gas compressor to delay Tyra II commissioning

    BlueNord ASA has announced an operational occurrence with the intermediate pressure (IP) gas compressor will impact the commissioning of the new Tyra II facilities in the North Sea. The investigation has con... more

  • Queensland Pacific Metals receives $3m grant for Frontier Gas Exploration
    13 May, 2024
  • Oil production starts at Argos platform in the Gulf of Mexico
    14 Apr, 2023
  • Woodside driving forward renewable hydrogen in Tasmania
    12 Nov, 2021
  • Equinor signs contracts for Northern Lights project
    21 Oct, 2020
Woodside reports successful reserves update as a result of merger with BHP

Angel CCS Joint Venture and Yara Pilbara Fertilisers to Explore CCS

The Angel CCS Joint Venture has joined forces with Yara Pilbara Fertilisers Pty Ltd (Yara Pilbara) to investigate the feasibility of employing carbon capture and storage (CCS) to decarbonise Yara Pilbara’s existing operations near Karratha, Western Australia. The proposed large-scale, multi-user CCS hub, operated by Woodside Energy, aims to assist Australian and international industries in their decarbonisation efforts. Yara Pilbara has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Angel CCS Joint Venture to explore the potential of CCS in reducing emissions from their operations in the... more
Jemena to reverse Eastern Gas Pipeline, enhancing gas supply to Victoria

Jemena reverses pipeline to enhance Victoria’s gas supply

Energy infrastructure company, Jemena, is planning to reverse the 797-kilometre Eastern Gas Pipeline (EGP) — potentially sending up to 300 TJ/d of gas south from New South Wales into Victoria. The EGP, commissioned in 2000, traditionally brought gas from Bass Strait to the New South Wales and Sydney market, supplying over 70 per cent of gas across New South Wales at times. The reversal project aims to make the EGP bi-directional, allowing it to deliver 200TJ/d south from Port Kembla Energy Terminal (PKET) — owned by Squadron Energy — by Winter 2026. With PKET over 90 per cent complete, it is Austr... more
Strike signs GTA with APA

Strike signs Walyering gas transportation agreement with APA

Strike has signed a two-year gas transportation agreement (GTA) with APA Group Pty Ltd, enabling the delivery of 10 TJ/d into the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP) from the Walyering gas processing facility. This will be facilitated through a new inter-pipeline connection at Mondarra, currently under construction and commissioned by APA. This infrastructure is expected to be operational by late 2024. This agreement provides Strike access to the significantly larger and more active market connected to the DBNGP, where approximately 95 per cent of daily gas in Western Australia is sold and cons... more
Woodside extends investment in education initiative

Woodside extends investment in education initiative

Woodside Energy and its joint venture partners have extended their support for education in the City of Karratha, signing five-year community partnership agreements for the ongoing delivery of the Karratha and Roebourne Education Initiative (KREI). The extension builds on more than 15 years of investment by the Woodside-operated North West Shelf Project to bridge the gap between the opportunities and resources available to students residing in the Pilbara and their metropolitan peers, and support students on their pathway to employment. The renewed agreements with the Department of Education and St Luke’... more
Five-well drilling program commences in Bowen Basin

Five-well drilling program commences in Bowen Basin

Denison Gas Limited has announced the commencement of a five-well drilling program to facilitate the expansion of production and reserves throughout its Denison North and South Project regions. Targeted plays for the wells include tight gas, conventional gas, and coal seam gas in established gas fields as well as new formations in promising regions. Denison Gas CEO Benson Wong said: “This campaign will both ensure ongoing strong production and build our 2P reserves, providing options for future growth and cementing our place as an alternative supplier into the Australian domestic gas market.” The in... more
Santos announces Barossa Aboriginal Future Fund

Santos announces Barossa Aboriginal Future Fund

Santos and its joint venture partners in the Barossa Gas Project will invest up to $10 million in Northern Territory coastal Aboriginal communities and homelands as the development phase of the project progresses. Investments will be aimed at improving community and homeland infrastructure and services as well as programs that enable Aboriginal people to maintain cultural practices and carry out cultural obligations, care for their country and establish pathways to skilled, well-paying, secure jobs and business opportunities. In addition, the Barossa Gas Project joint venture partners announced they are su... more
Santos delays FID for Narrabri gas project until 2025

Santos’s $5.8 billion Barossa gas pipeline project proceeds after court win

The Australian Federal Court has ruled in favour of Santos in the case of Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd — dismissing the application and discharging the injunction that prevented pipelay activities south of the kilometre 86 (KP86) point along the Barossa Gas Export Pipeline. As per the ruling and in accordance with the project’s Environmental Plan, Santos will continue its pipelaying activity for the Barossa Gas Project. Organisations such as the Australian Resources & Energy Employer Association (AREEA) and the Australian Energy Producers have issued statements of support for this decision. ... more
Equinor

Equinor makes gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea

Equinor and partners Wintershall Dea and Petoro have made a commercial gas discovery in production licence 1128 estimated at between two and eleven billion standard cubic metres of recoverable gas, or about 12.6-69.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. Exploration wells 6605/1-2 S&A in the Norwegian Sea were drilled by the Deepsea Stavanger drilling rig. The Obelix Upflank discovery was made some 23 kilometres south of the Irpa gas discovery, and 350 kilometres west of Sandnessjøen. This is the first discovery made on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) in 2023, and the first wells in the Equinor-... more
Lapa

TotalEnergies launches Lapa South-West Project

TotalEnergies has approved the final investment decision of the Lapa South-West oil development located in the Santos Basin, 300 kilometres off the coast of Brazil. TotalEnergies operates the project with a 45 per cent interest, in partnership with Shell (30%) and Repsol Sinopec (25%). Lapa South-West will be developed through three wells, connected to the existing Lapa floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel located 12 kilometres away and currently producing the North-East part of Lapa field since 2016. At production start-up, expected in 2025, Lapa South-West will increase production ... more
import terminal

LNG import terminal in Germany commissioned

The Deutsche Ostsee LNG import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG), operated by Deutsche ReGas and located in Lubmin on the German Baltic Sea coast, has been commissioned. The project, to which TotalEnergies is contributing a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) and supplying LNG, will make the company one of Germany’s main LNG suppliers. In December 2022, TotalEnergies delivered the Neptune – one of the company's two floating storage and regasification units – to Deutsche ReGas. The vessel has an annual regasification capacity of 5 billion cubic meters of gas, enough to cover about 5... more

Whitebark Energy progresses clean-up of new Rex-4 development well

Whitebark Energy Limited (ASX:WBE) has increased clean-up flow rates to about 180 barrels of oil equivalent per day following completion of hydraulic fracture stimulation operations at the Rex-4 development well within its 100 per cent owned Wizard Lake field in Alberta, Canada. Prior to bringing Rex-4 online, Wizard Lake’s production was about 50 barrels a day, while the development is targeting post-clean up production rates of 300 barrels and associated gas. The Rex-4 well continues ‘cleaning-up’ the injected fracture stimulation fluid on a controlled flow of approximately 500 barrels of fluid pe... more
Krafla

Krafla to be developed using ground-breaking concept

Along with Aker BP, Equinor has made an investment decision and will today submit a plan for development and operation for Krafla to the Minister of Petroleum and Energy. Aker BP will be developing Krafla along with the Fulla and North of Alvheim discoveries in the same area. Krafla was proven in 2011 and recoverable resources are estimated at 325 million barrels of oil equivalent. Total investments for Krafla are approximately NOK 46 billion. Trond Bokn, Equinor's senior vice president for project development said Krafla will be developed utilising extensive technological innovation and high levels of ... more
Saudi Arabia

Partners to build a giant petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company and TotalEnergies have taken the final investment decision for the construction of a world scale petrochemical facility in Saudi Arabia. The “Amiral” complex will be owned, operated, and integrated with the existing SATORP refinery located in Jubail on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast. The investment decision is subject to customary closing conditions and approvals. The petrochemical facility will enable SATORP to convert internally produced refinery off-gases and naphtha, as well as ethane and natural gasoline supplied by Aramco, into higher value chemicals, helping to adva... more
Sangomar

Construction milestone reached for Sangomar FPSO

Woodside Energy has passed another important milestone for the Sangomar Field Development Phase 1 with the completion of the construction phase for the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility which will be deployed at the field offshore Senegal. Woodside awarded the contract for supply of the FPSO to MODEC, Inc in 2020. Hull and marine works, external turret and topsides module installation and conversion work on the vessel were completed by COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Dalian) Co., Ltd. The topsides modules were fabricated by both COSCO and by BOMESC Offshore Engineering Company Ltd. ... more