Australia

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January 06, 2021
Even after Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on almost everything else, the new year begins with surging growth for renewable energy.
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December 21, 2020
The oil major will sell a 26.25% interest in the Queensland Curtis LNG Common Facilities in a deal that is expected to be completed in the first half of 2021. The common facilities are currently completely owned by Shell and include LNG storage tanks, jetties and infrastructure that service the venture.
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September 22, 2020
The industry-first basin-wide survey represents Phase II in CGG’s Gippsland ReGeneration reprocessing and acquisition project. Blocks V20-3 and V20-4 in the newly released Australian acreage are covered by the project.
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September 07, 2020
More than a year after the completion of a decade-long LNG construction boom, two of the seven marquee projects haven’t been able to work right, the nation’s east coast urban centers face an impending gas shortage blamed partly on exports, and the government is receiving relatively meager tax revenues from fuel sales.
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December 13, 2019
CGG has completed JumpStart multi-client geoscience packages for the North West Shelf of Australia and the Banda Arc in the Asia-Pacific region.
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November 29, 2019
Japan’s largest petroleum exploration company, Inpex Corp., is looking at expanding its natural gas business in Australia, even as U.S. energy majors Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips scale back their operations in the country.
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November 18, 2019
The contract will see Expro continue to supply a high rate 175 MMscf/day well testing package, which will include enhanced electronic emergency shut down (ESD) systems.
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October 28, 2019
Opening up a potentially huge shale gas region in Australia’s Northern Territory would increase the country’s already-hefty greenhouse gas emissions making it a “particularly dangerous” contributor to climate change, according to a new study.
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October 14, 2019
Santos Ltd. agreed to buy ConocoPhillips’ northern Australia business for $1.4 billion in a deal that will boost the Adelaide-based oil and gas producer’s position in the growing Asian liquefied natural gas market.
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October 08, 2019
SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a three-year provision of operations and maintenance workforce contract from Shell Australia for its QGC upstream asset located in Queensland, Eastern Australia.
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October 08, 2019
Santos has announced that the initial flow test of the Caley reservoir from the Dorado-3 appraisal well has confirmed the main oil pool in the field is capable of producing flowrates at the higher end of pre-drill expectations.
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October 02, 2019
EnerMech Australia has been awarded a five-year contract to provide specialist nitrogen and flange management services to a LNG facility in Central Queensland.
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October 01, 2019
The program will utilize Polarcus’ Xarray multi-source acquisition system, a hybrid combination of towed streamers and ocean-bottom nodes.
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September 26, 2019
Australia’s offshore petroleum regulator is due to decide by Nov. 14 whether to approve Equinor's plan to drill exploration wells in the Great Australian Bight. Environmentalists argue that it makes no sense to drill in the notoriously rough waters of a unique marine environment while fossil fuels are rapidly being eclipsed by renewable energy.
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September 18, 2019
"We would expect interest to be strong from domestic players that wish to gain greater exposure to rising gas prices, of which there are a significant number," said Wood Mackenzie research director Angus Rodger.
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August 12, 2019
Australia is on track to surpass Qatar as the world’s largest LNG exporter, according to Australia’s Department of Industry, Innovation, and Science (DIIS). Australia already surpasses Qatar in LNG export capacity and exported more LNG than Qatar in November 2018 and April 2019.
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August 06, 2019
Centurion announced that its Accommodation & Modular Solutions (AMS) segment has secured an ongoing multimillion dollar contract with a new customer in Western Australia.
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July 24, 2019
Santos announced it has received approval for Australia’s first Environmental Management Plan to be awarded for onshore shale gas exploration in the Northern Territory since the moratorium was lifted in early 2018.
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July 17, 2019
MAN Energy was awarded a FEED contract for the Chevron-operated Jansz-Io field in Western Australia.
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July 04, 2019
TechnipFMC announces today that the first shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has sailed from Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility located 475 km North East of Broome in Western Australia.
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June 26, 2019
Kuwait plans to boost production from Canadian shale deposits by two thirds and increase output of natural gas in Australia as the OPEC member ramps up efforts to find and develop overseas deposits of the fuel.
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