OIl and gas lobby group APPEA meets in Perth June 11 to 13 with climate, decommissioning, shareholder returns and activism topping the agenda.
Decommissioning
Australia's oil and gas industry has lost the fight not to bear the full cost of cleaning up after an oil vessel in the Timor Sea with a bankrupt owner.
Carbon 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.
APPEA 2021 Perth
Santos says attacks on its heavily-polluting Barossa LNG project "should be taken with a grain of salt" but will not substantiate its own claims that emissions have reduced.
APPEA 2021 Perth
WA energy minister Bill Johnston sees no current alternative to gas for dispatchable power and wants to use low prices to lure more gas-hungry investments to WA
APPEA 2021 Perth
Plentiful and cheap gas to WA may be undermined by pressure from North West Shelf LNG participants and Perth Basin producers for the McGowan Government to weaken its ban on the export of onshore gas.