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
San Joaquin Valley

Chevron launches CCS project in San Joaquin Valley

Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division, is launching a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of its operations in San Joaquin Valley, California. Chevron aims to reduce its carbon intensity - the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted per unit of energy produced - by installing CO2 post-combustion capture equipment, capturing the CO2 and then storing it underground. The CCS initiative would begin at Chevron’s Kern River Eastridge cogeneration plant in Kern County, California. “At Chevron, we believe the future of energy is lower... more
Texas

bp and Linde announce plan for major CCS project in Texas Gulf Coast

bp and Linde have announced plans for a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Texas that will enable low carbon hydrogen production at Linde’s existing facilities. The development will also support the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from other industrial facilities. Upon completion, the project will capture and store CO2 from Linde’s hydrogen production facilities in the greater Houston area – and potentially from its other Texas facilities – to produce low carbon hydrogen for the region. The low carbon hydrogen will be sold to customers along Linde’s hydrogen pipeline network ... more
Ballymore

Chevron sanctions Ballymore Project in the Gulf of Mexico

Chevron Corporation has sanctioned the Ballymore project in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The project, with a design capacity of 75,000 barrels of crude oil per day, will be developed as a three-mile subsea tieback to the existing Chevron-operated Blind Faith platform. Steve Green, president of Chevron North America Exploration and Production said Chevron’s U.S. Gulf of Mexico production is some of the lowest carbon intensity production in its portfolio at around 6 kg CO2 equivalent per barrel of oil equivalent and is a fraction of the global industry average. “Once complete, Ballymore is ... more
Hammerfest LNG

Hammerfest LNG start-up operations delayed

The start-up of the Hammerfest LNG plant in Norway has been delayed by a week due to a minor fault at the plant. The extensive repairs at the Hammerfest LNG plant in Norway have been completed, but Equinor has reported that the run-up of the plant takes somewhat longer than planned. During the weekend, a minor fault was discovered on a compressor that needs to be rectified prior to start-up. The component is now being replaced, and the stepwise process towards operations continues through the week. "Hammerfest LNG has been prepared for production, but we are taking the extra time necessary to safely res... more
Krafla

Transfer of Krafla operatorship from Equinor to Aker BP

Equinor and Aker BP have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for transfer of the Krafla operatorship from Equinor to Aker BP, making Aker BP the operator of all discoveries in the NOAKA area in the North Sea. Equinor is presently the operator of Krafla in the north and Aker BP is the operator of NOA Fulla in the south. One operator will have a good basis for efficient project execution and for safe and efficient operation of the fields, creating stronger synergies between the two developments and fewer interfaces. Geir Tungesvik, Equinor’s executive vice president for Projects, Drilling & Proc... more
Bayou Bend

Proposed JV expansion to enhance the Bayou Bend CCS Project in Texas

Chevron U.S.A., Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division, Talos Energy Inc., and Carbonvert, Inc. have announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for an expanded joint venture to develop the Bayou Bend CCS offshore carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) hub. In 2021, a joint venture between Talos and Carbonvert (now known as Bayou Bend CCS) was the winning bidder for a carbon storage lease, located in state waters offshore Texas. The Bayou Bend CCS project site encompasses over 40,000 gross acres and could potentially sequester 225 to 275 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from indus... more
Mero field

Start of production from first phase of the giant Mero field

Production from the first development phase of TotalEnergies’ giant Mero field in Brazil has commenced. Launched in late 2017, this first phase (Mero-1) includes a floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) with a production capacity of 180,000 barrels of oil per day. This will be followed by three additional development phases, with the Mero-2, Mero-3 and Mero-4 FPSOs, each with a production capacity of 180,000 barrels per day and production start-ups scheduled between 2023 and 2025. Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies said the production start-up, along with the entry i... more