Australasia
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April 12, 2018
New Zealand will stop granting offshore oil and gas exploration permits, saying it is committed to playing its part in tackling climate change.
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April 12, 2018
ExxonMobil Corp. today announced that the size of the natural gas resource at P’nyang field in Papua New Guinea has increased to 4.36 Tcf of gas, an 84% increase from a previous assessment completed in 2012.
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April 09, 2018
Chinese company ENN said it will consider a $10.3-billion takeover from U.S. suitor Harbour Energy for Santos Australian LNG exporter.
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April 03, 2018
Harbour Energy CEO Linda Cook said she would seek to expand Santos in Asia and Africa after making a $10.3 billion offer for Australia’s third-largest energy producer.
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March 29, 2018
Woodside advises that the acquisition of ExxonMobil’s interest in Scarborough gas field has been completed. The effective date of the transaction is Jan. 1, 2018.
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March 16, 2018
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), reached an agreement today to sell its shares in Shell entities in New Zealand, to OMV for $578 million.
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March 15, 2018
An average capex of $7.1 billion per year is forecast to be spent on 31 upcoming oil and gas fields in Oceania between 2018 and 2025, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
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March 14, 2018
After a decade planning the world’s largest floating gas export plant, Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s supplies could get tapped by a competitor first.
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February 26, 2018
Exxon Mobil has shut production platforms and a processing plant in the highlands of natural gas exporter Papua New Guinea after an earthquake struck the Pacific nation.
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February 23, 2018
Two of the world’s biggest energy producers have abandoned the sale of some of Australia’s oldest oil fields after running a 20-month sales process.
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February 20, 2018
Wood has been awarded the brownfield engineering services contract for the INPEX-operated Ichthys offshore facilities, located 220 km off the coast of Western Australia and onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facilities in Darwin, Northern Territory.
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February 15, 2018
National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) is supporting the Transforming Australia Subsea Equipment Reliability (TASER) project, led by Wood and in collaboration with Chevron, Shell and Woodside, by providing AUD $145,000 of funding over two years.
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February 14, 2018
Australia’s Woodside Petroleum finally got what it wanted from Exxon Mobil. And it only cost $744 million.
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February 13, 2018
TAG Oil Ltd. has provided a positive update on its Pukatea-1 exploration well, which was spudded on Jan. 24, 2018. The Pukatea-1 well is located in TAG Oil’s operated Puka permit (PEP 51135, 70% TAG Oil) in the Taranaki basin of New Zealand.
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January 17, 2018
Commencing March 2018, Maersk Master and Maersk Mariner, Maersk Supply Service’s two first Starfish-class anchor handling vessels built in 2017, will be on contract with Quadrant Energy in Western Australia.
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January 15, 2018
ExxonMobil today announced that it encountered hydrocarbons after drilling the onshore P’nyang South-2 well, located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
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January 11, 2018
Beach Energy Ltd. has announced a new gas field discovery at Haselgrove-3 ST1 in the onshore Otway basin, in South Australia. Flow test results from the primary target Sawpit Sandstone indicate a high deliverability reservoir and provide encouragement to move towards commercialization of a large gas resource.
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January 08, 2018
UTEC, a global survey company in subsea services group Acteon, has been awarded a contract by Technip Oceania Pty Ltd, part of TechnipFMC in Australia, to provide survey and positioning services on the Greater Enfield Project, offshore Western Australia.
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December 21, 2017
Eni has acquired the whole 32.5% interest from Shell Australia Proprietary Limited (Shell) in Evans Shoal gas field, and has become the Operator of the Retention Lease NT/RL7 located in the north Bonaparte basin, offshore Northern Australia.
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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.
