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September 11, 2023
The producer has asked the Fair Work Commission to make intractable bargaining declarations for the Gorgon and Wheatstone facilities, adding to a similar request already lodged in relation to the Wheatstone platform, a Chevron spokesman said.
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September 08, 2023
The start of the industrial action marks the culmination of weeks-long discussions that have kept markets on edge. Unions first threatened to pursue strikes at the Chevron sites and Woodside Energy Group Ltd.’s facilities in early August.
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September 07, 2023
Chevron’s Gorgon and Wheatstone plants together supplied about 7% of the world’s LNG last year, and unions have planned to start with partial strikes if no resolution is reached.
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September 06, 2023
The new deadline for industrial action at the Gorgon and Wheatstone plants is 6 a.m. local time Friday, a Chevron Australia spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The unions previously threatened to start partial strikes on Sep. 7 and then escalate to full stoppages that would begin Sep. 14 and last two weeks.
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September 05, 2023
The workers have served Chevron notice that they plan full stoppages from Sept. 14, following partial strikes from Sept. 7, the Offshore Alliance grouping said Tuesday on Facebook.
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September 04, 2023
A Chevron spokesman confirmed that workers voted against the proposed agreements and said it was “part of the bargaining process and an important step which enabled employees to share their views.”
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September 01, 2023
Santos has executed a binding sale agreement to deliver Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited a 2.6% participating interest in PNG LNG, for a total purchase consideration comprising cash of $576 million and the assumption of ca. $160 million of project finance debt.
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August 31, 2023
Initial evaluation confirms reservoir continuity of the Amungee Member B-shale over 150 kilometers between Amungee NW-2H and Beetaloo W-1 wells. This includes a target development area of approximately 1 million acres where the shale depth exceeds 2,700 meters.
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August 28, 2023
Unions gave notice for industrial action at the Gorgon and Wheatstone export plants, the company said Monday in an emailed statement. Chevron will “continue to work through the bargaining process as we seek outcomes that are in the interests of both employees and the company,” it said.
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August 24, 2023
Woodside said “substantial progress” had been made in the talks and confirmed unions had not triggered an option to give the required seven working days’ notice to begin a strike.
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August 21, 2023
The Offshore Alliance, a group representing two major labor unions, said in a social media post Sunday workers had “unanimously endorsed” giving Woodside seven working days to take industrial action if enterprise bargaining claims “are not resolved” by close of business Wednesday, when Woodside and officials representing workers intend to hold new talks.
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August 21, 2023
The permit covers an area of 418 km2 in the Timor Sea, approximately 250 km northeast of the Ichthys offshore facilities. This permit includes the Cash and Maple gas and condensate fields, discovered in 2002 and 1989 respectively, and subsequently appraised by several wells.
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August 14, 2023
The acquisition is earnings and cashflow accretive for Strike and will provide a platform in which Strike can escalate the pace of development of its highly attractive Perth basin gas assets.
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August 10, 2023
European natural gas fluctuated Thursday as traders weighed the prospects of any major impact and erased some of the 28% surge the previous day — a move not seen since the early weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year that upended global supply of the fuel.
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August 07, 2023
The project has the potential to reduce the absolute emissions and emissions intensity of Australian and Timor-Leste gas and LNG projects, as well as other hard to abate industries in the region.
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August 04, 2023
With over 20 years of experience in management roles within the marine, oil and gas industries, Warren McHardie brings diverse expertise to the position.
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August 01, 2023
The SS1H well, which will include a horizontal section of approximately 1,000 m, will target the Amungee Member B-shale at an estimated target depth of 3,200 m (approximately 700 m deeper than the Amungee NW-2H (“A2H”) well in EP 98).
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August 01, 2023
C-Kore Systems has successfully completed a decommissioning campaign offshore Australia, using C-Kore Sensor Monitor units to interrogate the wellhead pressure and temperature sensors on the subsea oilfield.
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July 11, 2023
Under the contract scope, McDermott will provide project management and engineering services for the recovery, transportation and offloading of the DTM buoy to a suitable onshore yard facility for dismantling and disposal.
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June 29, 2023
Transocean Ltd. announced a 16-well binding award for the Transocean Equinox in Australia for a consortium of four operators. The engagement includes options that, if fully exercised, could keep the Transocean Equinox working in Australia into 2028.
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June 22, 2023
This 3D is crucial to enhancing the geological understanding of the sparsely explored offshore Gulf of Papua and developing drill ready prospects like those recently identified by a supermajor in the permit immediately adjacent to the Nanamarope 3D.
