Analysis

Carbon Emissions

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.

Analysis

Is Woodside the next South32?

Speculation is mounting of a big Woodside-BHP deal next week. There may be lessons from South32, another destination for BHP's unwanted assets.

Project Management

Woodside limits Scarborough cost bump but is silent on risk

Woodside is now chasing investors in its $US12B Scarborough to Pluto LNG project, but they need to look beyond the headline number.

Analysis

Japan plans to almost halve LNG for power by 2030

Crunch time for Australian LNG: True Paris-aligned emissions targets kill demand and ammonia hopes are too small, too late and probably green.

Chevron

Time’s up on Gorgon’s five years of carbon storage failure

On July 18 Chevron will be millions of tonnes short of required CO2 injection at Gorgon LNG. If the WA Government stands firm the carbon credit bill could approach $100 million.

Carbon Emissions

Woodside’s real plan for Pluto LNG: delay action, not reduce emissions

Woodside's Pluto net-zero 2050 plan is greenwashing, leaving 70% of cuts to the last five years despite investors telling CEO Meg O'Neill they want tangible speedy progress.

Carbon Emissions

BHP climate target skips massive Australian oil & gas emissions

BHP's climate target excludes the Bass Strait, North West Shelf and future Scarborough LNG on the incorrect basis that the operator controls the emissions, not the joint owners.

Energy Transition

Shell, Exxon and Chevron slammed on climate by court and investors: what it means for Australia

Shell, Exxon and Chevron are big players in Australian oil and gas and being forced to decarbonise sooner will affect their local operations, with a possible king hit to Prelude.

Carbon Emissions

South32's coal-fired Worsley Alumina two-thirds dirtier than Alcoa

If South32’s low profile coal-burning Worsley Alumina operated like Alcoa’s facilities 1.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year would be avoided: the same as Alcoa's Wagerup refinery.

Energy Transition

Woodside: Scarborough or stranded like a beached whale

For Woodside, it is Scarborough or bust. Incredibly the LNG specialist has no plan B ready if its last chance to develop an LNG project evaporates. And Scarborough is no sure thing.

Analysis

Blue hydrogen a risky path for Australia in global clean fuel race

The cost of storing CO2 produced when hydrogen is made from coal or gas will likely make blue hydrogen uncompetitive against green hydrogen made with renewable electricity, ANU scientists conclude.

PRRT

Shell predicts free gas forever for Gorgon and Prelude LNG

Shell's accountants predict the Dutch giant will never pay Australia for gas consumed at the Gorgon and Prelude LNG projects that it can sell for up to about $4 billion a year.

Woodside Petroleum

BHP’s Geraldine Slattery leads pack to replace Peter Coleman at Woodside

The next Woodside chief executive will be the first to decide what to do apart from gas. Low-profile BHP Petroleum head Geraldine Slattery is a lead contender to take charge of this pivotal WA company.

Carbon Emissions

Ten hurdles to Twiggy's green vision for FMG

Andrew Forrest has put his iron ore miner FMG on a fast track to net-zero emissions by 2030. Achieving high speed on a rocky road will not be easy.

Energy Policy

WA Libs fills Labor’s energy policy void with a coal exit and green hydrogen

The Liberals know where to take WA energy but probably not how to do it. Labor is on top of the detail but shy of facing the inevitable. So close to a bipartisan approach, will our political class blow it?

Decommissioning

Australia told ExxonMobil CEO 'no easy exit' before $3B Bass Strait sale canned

Resources Minister Keith Pitt warned ExxonMobil ceo Darren Woods he would tighten rules for selling offshore oil and gas assets and shortly after the US major canned its Bass Strait exit.