🗡️ Who murdered the Murujuga rock art science?
Special Cluedo™️ edition 🔍 Was it Mr Cook or Prof Smith?
Green hydrogen has long term promise for WA but needs help to scale and escape the trap of being an expensive product with a limited market.
• Dangerous July off WA • Ichthys build losses •
Two Woodside offshore workers were injured when a 500kg load fell after a lifting appliance with unapproved modifications failed but Woodside reported only one injury to the safety regulator.
Woodside is now chasing investors in its $US12B Scarborough to Pluto LNG project, but they need to look beyond the headline number.
• Santos Oil Search merger OK'd • Woodside job losses •
Terrifying video shows an offshore lift that went badly wrong off the WA coast in early July endangering workers hanging off a platform and those on the vessel.
Employees across Woodside lost their jobs today, with many more expected to follow, as chief executive Meg O'Neill chases a 30 per cent cut in operating costs.
• $2.5B Ichthys law suit • dodgy Woodside spin on The Terrace •
Buying BHP’s Australian oil and gas assets could allow Woodside to escape its lost decade, but its shareholders and Australian taxpayers should count their fingers after the handshake.
TotalEnergies shipped a carbon-neutral LNG cargo from Ichthys in late 2020 when the Inpex-operated project had massive flaring of gas but will not confirm if the above normal emissions were offset.
Crunch time for Australian LNG: True Paris-aligned emissions targets kill demand and ammonia hopes are too small, too late and probably green.
• Blue ammonia problems • Big decommissioning spend begins •
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