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  • QPM launches drilling operations for Teviot Brook South wells

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    QPM launches drilling operations for Teviot Brook South wells

    Queensland Pacific Metals Ltd (ASX:QPM) has announced the start of drilling operations for seven new production wells at the Teviot Brook South area in South East Queensland,. This initiative is part of the ... more

  • QPM announces 38 per cent increase in Moranbah Project Reserves

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    QPM announces 38 per cent increase in Moranbah Project reserves

    Queensland Pacific Metals Ltd (ASX:QPM) has reported a substantial increase in reserves at its Moranbah Project in Queensland, with 2P reserves rising by 38 per cent from 240PJ to 331PJ. The independently ce... more

  • Tamboran signs major gas supply agreement with NT government

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    Tamboran signs major gas supply agreement with NT government

    Tamboran Resources Corporation (TBN) has announced the signing of a binding Gas Sales Agreement (GSA) with the Northern Territory government to supply 40 TJ per day (~19 TJ per day net to Tamboran) from the pro... more

  • TotalEnergies to strengthen gas portfolio in Malaysia

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    TotalEnergies to strengthen gas portfolio in Malaysia

    TotalEnergies has reached an agreement with Sapura Upstream Assets Sdn Bhd (SUA) to acquire its 50 per cent interest in Malaysian gas producer SapuraOMV Upstream Sdn (SapuraOMV) for $530 million. This deal, ... more

  • QPM launches drilling operations for Teviot Brook South wells
  • QPM announces 38 per cent increase in Moranbah Project reserves
  • Tamboran signs major gas supply agreement with NT government
  • TotalEnergies to strengthen gas portfolio in Malaysia

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

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 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’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

Tamboran progresses key pipeline agreements with APA Group

Tamboran Resources have entered into three formal and binding agreements with APA Group to support the development of Tamboran’s Beetaloo Basin assets. This includes: an Early Development Agreement relating to the development of the ~35-kilometre Sturt Plateau Pipeline (SPP) that is planned to connect the proposed 40 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) Sturt Plateau Compression Facility (SPCF) to the Amadeus Gas Pipeline (AGP) and, subject to achieving project milestones and executing further agreements, is targeting an online date as early as H2 2025 an Early Development Agreement for development o... more

Pilot enters binding agreements to raise $3.5 million

A syndicate of sophisticated investors has agreed to inject $3.5 million into Pilot Energy (ASX:PGY) to progress the company’s flagship Mid West Clean Energy Project (MWCEP) in Western Australia. The syndicate is being led by Greg Columbus, a director of Discovery Investments Pty Ltd and current Non-executive Chairman of Talon Energy. This is the second time this investor syndicate led by Columbus has participated in the issue of convertible notes in 2023. The six binding convertible notes will be issued in two tranches. The first five notes will be issued to members of the investor syndicate and will ... more

Plans released for new Port Hedland LNG plant in WA

Pilbara Clean Fuels Pty Ltd is progressing a development concept for a new, mid-scale, low carbon footprint LNG plant to be located at Port Hedland in Western Australia. The project will provide an Australian LNG fuel supply capability through a new facility for the conversion of pipeline natural gas to LNG, responding to market demand for cleaner marine bunker fuel for dry-bulk iron ore carriers operating ‘round-trip’ voyages between the Pilbara and Asia. Market studies show increasing worldwide adoption of LNG as a marine fuel, with supply availability one of the key drivers. The base-case plant c... more

TotalEnergies accepts offer from Suncor for its oil sands assets

Following the announcement of its project to spin-off its Canadian assets, TotalEnergies received several unsolicited offers among which an offer from Suncor Energy Inc. for the acquisition of the entirety of the shares of TotalEnergies EP Canada Ltd; this offer materialised over the last month. Per the signed agreement, Suncor would acquire the entirety of the shares of TotalEnergies EP Canada Ltd for a consideration including a C$5.5 billion cash payment at closing (about US$4.1 billion) and additional payments that could reach a maximum of C$600 million (about US$450 million) under specific conditions. ... more

ExxonMobil advances fifth offshore Guyana development

ExxonMobil has made a final investment decision for the Uaru development offshore Guyana after receiving required government and regulatory approvals. The company expects Uaru, the fifth project on Guyana’s offshore Stabroek block, to add approximately 250,000 barrels of daily capacity after a targeted startup in 2026. President of the ExxonMobil Upstream Company Liam Mallon said the company’s fifth, multi-billion-dollar investment in Guyana exemplifies ExxonMobil’s long-term commitment to the country’s sustained economic growth. “Our Guyana investments and unrivalled development success conti... more

Shell restarts operations at the Pierce Field in the UK North Sea

Shell has completed the restart of operations at the Pierce field in the UK Central North Sea, following a significant upgrade to allow gas to be produced after years of the field producing only oil. Substantial modifications were made to the Haewene Brim floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), which is used to produce hydrocarbons at the Pierce field. A new subsea gas export line was also installed, connecting to the SEGAL pipeline system, which brings gas ashore at St Fergus, north of Aberdeen. Shell Upstream Director Zoe Yujnovich said the company took the investment decision in 2019,... more

Delivery of the first cargo to the Dhamra LNG terminal

TotalEnergies has announced the delivery of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to the Dhamra LNG terminal, located in the state of Odisha on the east coast of India and owned and operated by Adani Total Private Limited (ATPL), a 50-50 joint venture between TotalEnergies and Adani. This delivery enables the gradual commissioning of the terminal, which is expected to start commercial operations at the end of May 2023. With regasification capacity of five million metric tonnes of LNG per year, the Dhamra LNG terminal adds more than 10 per cent to India’s regasification capacity, strengthening the c... more

Production starts from Equinor’s Bauge subsea field

On 8 April production started from Equinor’s Bauge subsea field in the Norwegian Sea. Bauge is tied back to the recently upgraded Njord platform. Recoverable reserves in Bauge are estimated at 50 million barrels of oil equivalent, mainly oil. Bauge consists of two oil producers in a subsea template, in addition to pipelines and an umbilical connecting the wells to the Njord A platform. The Bauge licensees are Equinor (operator), Wintershall Dea, Vår Energi and Neptune Energy. Equinor's senior vice president for project development Trond Bokn said the subsea facility was built and installed without a sin... more

Oil production starts at Argos platform in the Gulf of Mexico

The Mad Dog Phase 2 project has commenced oil production from the Argos offshore facility in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. With a gross production capacity of up to 140,000 barrels of crude oil per day, Mad Dog Phase 2 will systematically ramp up production through 2023. The new Argos platform is a semi-submersible floating production unit located approximately 10 km southwest of the existing Mad Dog platform. Argos is bp’s fifth platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the first new bp-operated production facility in the region since 2008. It will increase bp’s gross operated production capacity in the G... more

TotalEnergies and Iraqi Government move forward with GGIP

TotalEnergies and the Iraqi Government have in the past months jointly defined the necessary conditions and mutual insurances to move forward with the Gas Growth Integrated Project (GGIP). The Iraqi Government and TotalEnergies have agreed on a 30 per cent stake for the Basrah Oil Company (BOC) in the GGIP. Furthermore, in agreement with the Iraqi Government, TotalEnergies has invited QatarEnergy to take a 25 per cent stake in the GGIP. The consortium will thus be composed of TotalEnergies (45%), Basrah Oil Company (30%) and QatarEnergy (25%). Signed in September 2021, the GGIP aims to enhance the de... more