Australasia
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December 19, 2017
Wood has been awarded two new contracts by Woodside to deliver engineering and rig modification services offshore Australia and a concept definition study for the Julimar Phase 2 project.
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December 12, 2017
ABB will provide Woodside, Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company, with a PowerStore Battery storage system that is capable of remote management of operations and service. The system will be installed on the Goodwyn A platform.
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December 12, 2017
Santos today entered an agreement to partially fund and operate a 3D seismic survey over the exciting, undrilled Beehive prospect, earning the company a farm-in option for WA-488-P in the Bonaparte basin, offshore Western Australia.
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December 11, 2017
Woodside Energy has awarded ICON Engineering a scope of works providing subsea rig interfaces for the Greater Enfield oil development project.
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December 08, 2017
Polarcus Limited has announced that the Company has secured significant industry prefunding and has been granted the environmental permit for a broadband 3D marine seismic project in Australia.
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December 07, 2017
Delmar Systems Pty, LTD has purchased a new mooring equipment storage yard and base facility at Karratha in Western Australia.
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December 07, 2017
Santos has announced it will acquire a 20% equity in the PPL 339 licence in Papua New Guinea via a farm-in agreement with Kina Petroleum Limited.
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November 16, 2017
A bid for Santos Ltd. may trigger counter offers for the Australian oil and gas producer that has stakes in some of the world’s cheapest liquefied natural gas.
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November 13, 2017
Shell’s subsidiary, Shell Energy Holdings Australia Limited (SEHAL), has entered into an underwriting agreement with two investment banks, for the sale of 71.6 million shares in Woodside, representing 64.0% of its interest in Woodside and 8.5% of the issued capital in Woodside.
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October 19, 2017
Pilot Energy is pleased to announce that the WA-507-P Joint Venture (Pilot Energy, 80%) has resolved to market for sale an unencumbered 100% interest in the permit, WA-507-P. The sale will allow Pilot to focus on its Perth basin interests.
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October 16, 2017
Global engineering and maintenance services provider, EnerMech, has been awarded a five-year contract for hose and hose fittings supply and services for Shell’s Prelude FLNG Facility in Western Australia.
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October 12, 2017
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is leading a joint industry project (JIP), supported by the Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF), to provide industry with a better understanding of the mechanism of hydrate growth and blockages.
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October 09, 2017
Chevron Corporation has announced that it has started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. The first cargo is on track to be shipped in the coming weeks.
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September 28, 2017
Australia’s Beach Energy Ltd. agreed to buy Origin Energy Ltd.’s conventional oil and gas business, Lattice Energy, for A$1.59 billion ($1.25 billion) in a deal set to triple the Adelaide-based company’s reserves.
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September 19, 2017
Northwest Energy has confirmed that Xanadu-1 has intersected hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs demonstrated by elevated gas readings, oil shows, fluorescence and cut-fluorescence whilst drilling reservoir sections.
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September 06, 2017
Xodus Group has delivered a decommissioning ‘trend survey’ to JOGMEC (Japan Oil & Gas and Metals National Corporation) to provide Japanese oil and gas companies with a better understanding of the decommissioning process and how to manage their global asset and abandonment liabilities.
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September 06, 2017
The world’s second-biggest liquefied natural gas exporting nation will probably curb shipments next year to avoid a domestic shortfall of the fuel, according to the Australian head of Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
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September 06, 2017
Wood Group has secured a new, five-year contract with INPEX Operations Australia Pty Ltd. to provide subsea engineering services for the integrity of the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project, offshore Western Australia.
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August 29, 2017
Trelleborg’s marine systems operation has supplied a suite of products to Shell’s Prelude FLNG facility, the largest offshore facility ever constructed.
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August 25, 2017
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO) was safely moored in Ichthys field, 220 km off the north coast of Western Australia.
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August 23, 2017
Atwood Oceanics, Inc. has announced that the offshore employees of its Australian operating subsidiary have approved a new, four-year Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA).


