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Woodside boss Liz Westcott

Oil & GasCommentsPremiumWoodside boosts Browse stake by vetoing Inpex deal

Woodside Energy will pay at least $US225 million ($320m) to block Japan’s Inpex from buying into the $30 billion Browse gas project off WA’s north-west coast.

Adrian Rauso and Rebecca Le May

Inpex's Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

Oil & GasCommentsPremiumStrikes delay LNG deliveries, ‘threaten’ energy relationship

Industrial action at Inpex’s Ichthys project has delayed energy cargoes to key Asian partners, as the company seeks urgent orders to halt the strikes.

Ryan Johnson

A fuel excise cut aimed at easing the pressure of the oil crisis is due to expire on June 30.

EnergyCommentsPremiumMotorists brace for higher prices as fuel tax cut runs dry

Australia is unlikely to extend the temporary halving of the fuel excise, as conflict in the Middle East breaks out ending the fragile ceasefire.

Tess Ikonomou

INPEX's Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

Oil & GasCommentsPremium‘Significant disruption’: Inpex seeks orders to stop strikes

Inpex seeks to halt escalating LNG strikes amid warnings of energy supply disruption.

Ryan Johnson

Woodside wants to build the H2Perth project in the Rockingham industrial area.

HydrogenCommentsPremiumWoodside pivots on H2Perth in hopes of starting work in 2027

Woodside Energy has signalled construction of a $1 billion hydrogen plant in Rockingham could start as soon as next year but the company has axed green power in favour of natural gas.

Matt Mckenzie

Renewable energy such as solar and wind power is close to surpassing gas in major nations. (Michael Currie/AAP PHOTOS)

Oil & GasPremiumRunning low on gas: more nations drive an energy change

Renewable electricity sources such as solar and wind are gaining on gas for a share of the worldwide energy market.

Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Inpex’s'S Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

EnergyCommentsPremiumLNG workers threaten to ramp up strike action

Workers at Inpex’s Ichthys LNG export plant are planning to increase strike action to eight hours a day and implement work bans from Thursday, after talks between union members and the company stalled.

Sing Yee Ong

Monadelphous managing director Zoran Bebic said the award will support Australia’s energy transition. 

ContractingCommentsPremiumMonadelphous plugs into $380m east coast power plant

Monadelphous has picked up a $380 million contract to build a power plant in Queensland as it taps into more energy transition opportunities. 

Daniel Newell

Oil

EnergyCommentsPremiumPlunging global supplies threaten to push oil even higher

Motorists face a new round of punishing price increases for fuel and other products as oil and gas inventories plunge to historic lows around the world because of the war in Iran.

Evan Halper

Balaji Krishnamurthy was the keynote speaker at The West Australian Leadership Matters breakfast at Crown Grand Ballroom.

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Federal gas plan ‘confusing and frustrating’: Chevron boss

Chevron’s American head office is ‘confused and frustrated’ about a proposed national gas reservation scheme amid uncertainty about the impact on WA’s longstanding policy.

Matt Mckenzie

Inpex's Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

EnergyCommentsPremiumWorkers to down tools at WA gas hubs amid pay feud

The union said workers would strike for four hours on Tuesday at the gas export operation stretching from off the Kimberley coast to Darwin.

Matt Mckenzie

Meg O'Neill, chief executive of BP.

Oil & GasPremiumBP sells down stake in Browse gas project

Meg O’Neill’s BP has trimmed down its stake in the $30 billion Woodside-operated Browse gas project that remains in development limbo.

Adrian Rauso

BP finds one has become a very British shambles.

The EconomistCommentsPremiumHow BP became a shambles that cares too much about feelings

THE ECONOMIST: The ousting of its chairman Albert Manifold shows BP cares more about feelings and not enough about performance.

The Northern Endeavour floating production vessel.

EnergyCommentsPremiumShell steps up court pursuit of Woodside over oil field

A Supreme Court seeks to recover another $86m from Woodside and Dutch-owned partner for the rehabilitation of the rusting floating production vessel, which was abandoned in 2019.

Sean Smith

Iron ore led the way again, with sales valued at $126 billion.

MiningCommentsPremiumWA resources sector investment at decade-high

The staggering contribution WA’s powerhouse mining and energy industries makes to the State’s economy has been laid bare with fresh figures.

Adrian Rauso

Former WA opposition leader Mia Davies is now spokeswoman for the DomGas Alliance.

Oil & GasCommentsPremiumBig WA energy users say Feds’ reservation plan has strengths

Major gas users hope a proposed national reservation scheme will add pressure to reform WA’s 20-year-old rules.

Matt Mckenzie

BP has ousted its chairman and expressed serious concerns about his governance standards and conduct (AP PHOTO)

BusinessPremiumMeg O’Neill-run BP ousts chair citing conduct issues

BP's sacked chairman Albert Manifold has ‌pushed back against what he ‌described as a "false narrative" surrounding ‌his removal from the British oil major.

Shadia Nasralla

Inpex staff won’t walk off the job on Wednesday and Thursday.

Oil & GasPremiumLNG workers put strike plans on ice

A looming strike at Inpex’s Ichthys LNG export plant in Darwin and production facilities off WA has been paused at the eleventh-hour.

Matt Mckenzie

Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher and Shell Australia country chair Cecile Wake at last week’s Australian Energy Producers conference.

EnergyCommentsPremiumSantos’ Gallagher spruiks $3b WA oil prospect

Santos boss Kevin Gallagher has declared a $3 billion oil precinct off WA’s coast “looks great” and “stacks up economically” as the company promises to make the State a top exploration target.

Matt Mckenzie

Woodside’s Pluto LNG plant on the Burrup Peninsula has been the subject of hot debate over domestic gas rules.

Oil & GasPremiumWA gas sector waits for clarity on new reservation rules

WA’s second-biggest industry remains uncertain exactly how a new national gas reservation scheme will apply in the State after draft guidelines were released by the Federal Government on Monday.

Matt Mckenzie

WA Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson says tough new penalties for dodgy service stations are working.

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May blitz pings just three servos for FuelWatch failures

The State Government says its service station blitz is working, with just three fines issued this month for dodgy practices - such as not disclosing fuel prices or overcharging.

Joe Spagnolo

The Wheatstone Platform in the Pilbara

Oil & GasPremiumChevron closing in on major shutdown of Wheatstone

The Pilbara venture will be suspended for up to five weeks from October while Chevron carries out scheduled, multi-year maintenance and inspection programs.

Sean Smith

WA Premier Roger Cook is circling the wagons around a resource considered critical to the State’s future, telling Top End politicians to keep their ‘hands off our gas’. 

Oil & GasCommentsPremium‘Hands off’: Cook fires warning shot as NT eyes WA’s gas

The Northern Territory is eyeing off the giant Browse gas field as a source for Darwin’s LNG industry, in a move that could pull the rug from under WA’s economy.

Ben Harvey

Santos boss Kevin Gallagher at the AEP conference in Adelaide on Wednesday.

EnergyCommentsPremium‘Sliding doors moment’ as Canada stalks Aussie gas customers

Australia should be ‘unleashing’ its oil and gas sector instead of controlling it as Canada plots to snaffle our markets, Santos boss Kevin Gallagher says.

Rebecca Le May