Santos internal analysis: $US1.6B Bayu-Undan carbon storage is low return and high complexity

Australian LNG producers are under pressure on emissions and decommissioning, and Santos wants to tackle both problems in one swoop at Bayu Undan, but it needs everyone to play along.

MacTiernan defends WA Government backing gas…for now

WA hydrogen minister Alannah MacTiernan believes a viable green hydrogen industry will build community support for the State's economy relying less on gas.

Tardy BHP ordered to clean up three oil and gas fields offshore WA and Victoria

Offshore regulator NOPSEMA has had enough of BHP's "limited action" and ordered the decommissioning of three fields, adding to the cleanup bill heading towards Woodside shareholders.

McGowan and Woodside play footsies again

• Santos’ big WA decomm exposure • industry emissions •

McGowan won’t rule out favouring Woodside for carbon farming land

Woodside Petroleum needs massive amounts of land for carbon offsets and the WA Government appears to be laying out an exclusive red carpet for the LNG giant.

WA onshore and coastal oil & gas clean up to cost billions

Santos and Chevron, through Varanus and Barrow Islands, have a big part to play in the clean up of 1000 oil and gas wells in WA, with about 300 ready to be plugged now.

Gaps hold back EPA’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions from WA industry

WA's EPA is now restraining growth in carbon emissions from industry but it and State and Federal Governments need to do more to keep the State attractive to increasingly climate-concerned investors.

Santos net-zero claim questioned

• wins for Perth startups • $ for coal capacity? •

Woodside Petroleum: doubling to be dirtier

• Santos’ Dorado has a problem • Buru pivots •

Woodside Petroleum: doubling down for a dirty decade

Woodside and BHP have responded to the energy transition by heading in opposite directions. Here are 13 takeaways about Woodside's future. They will need some luck.

Decisions now lock in industry emissions for decades: here’s how to get them right

Thirty per cent of Australia's emissions come from industry like LNG and the Federal Government needs to start pushing change now to have any hope of achieving net-zero by 2050.

Santos' oil Dorado is a lode of Scope 3 emissions

Santos wants to approve its $2.8B Dorado oil project off WA in mid-2022 but science and the law will provide hurdles to its 165 million tonnes of carbon pollution.