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Domestic Gas

Domestic gas, or domgas, in WA comes from gas LNG producers are required to reserve for the local market and smaller domestic gas-only projects.

APPEA 2021 Perth

Johnston backs gas for WA power and industry

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

Doubts grow over WA onshore gas export ban

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.

Strike Energy

Clouded future of gas in WA drives Strike Energy to urea

Strike Energy's Stuart Nicholls regards the WA gas market as a dangerous place to be as new cheap supply comes in as the big resource players prepare to move away from fossil fuels.

Domestic Gas

Regulator cuts Dampier to Bunbury gas pipeline life as energy transition bites

WA's competition regulator has accepted that competition from renewable energy will shrink the economic life of the Dampier to Bunbury gas pipeline by more than three decades.

Western Gas

Western Gas looks to east coast pipeline to make a market for Equus

Western Gas is looking east, at petrochemicals, at WA buyers and the North West Shelf LNG plant to find a market for its Equus gas.

Domestic Gas

Santos’ $126M Reindeer gas field write off tightens WA market

Santos' Reindeer gas field will fill with water sooner than expected and the production loss will add to concerns about the supply of gas to WA this decade.

Power Generation

Wind and solar push down coal, gas and prices in South West WA

Two huge new wind farms and more solar panels in WA's South West displaced coal and gas last quarter giving a win-win of lower prices and emissions.

Fracking

Kimberley fracker expects to escape WA gas export ban

Black Mountain expects the McGowan Government to soon waive its gas export ban but fracking the gas must wait for two years of environmental studies.

Domestic Gas

Chevron and Santos battle Kerry Stokes’ Mardie Salt project

Chevron, Santos and Kerry Stokes' BCI Minerals are battling in court over responsibility for gas pipelines supplying 40 per cent of the WA market that traverse the $780 million Mardie salt project.

Domestic Gas

Alcoa backs Warrego's West Errugulla with gas buy

Momentum behind Perth Basin gas projects continues to grow with Alcoa committing to buy West Erregulla gas from Warrego.

Carbon Emissions

WA EPA & industry make real moves to net-zero by 2050

Fortescue and Mitsui appear to have agreed massive emissions cuts with WA's environmental watchdog that is now looking at Woodside and Chevron LNG projects.

Carbon Emissions

Methane explained: short-lived but long-term damage

The gas industry argues burning methane is less damaging to the climate than coal, but are we underestimating the affect of methane leaks?

Domestic Gas

McGowan: onshore gas export banned, unless its Stokes' Waitsia

WA Premier Mark McGowan has extended WA's successful gas reservation policy to all onshore gas - except Waitsia that is backed by a powerful media boss Kerry Stokes

Power Generation

WA power plan not heading for net-zero emissions by 2050

The first cut at planning WA power's future ignores carbon costs that Woodside would estimate at many billions and comes nowhere near the WA Government's target of net-zero emissions by 2050.

LNG

How Don helped Kerry win the east coast gas game

Don Voelte does not hold back telling the tale of the east coast gas mess that Woodside wisely avoided and Beach Energy profited from.

Domestic Gas

North West Shelf’s 36-year WA gas reign is over

Santos is now the biggest supplier of gas to WA and the future may depend on the Perth Basin after the State's almost four decades of reliance on Australia's first LNG plant.

Domestic Gas

WA's near useless domestic gas deal with Woodside's Pluto LNG

Woodside's Pluto LNG plant has delivered less that one per cent of its gas to WA due to a 2006 WA Government deal that appeared generous then and looks feeble now.

Domestic Gas

Waitsia gives McGowan a gas-powered climate dilemma

As Environment Minister in 2006 Mark McGowan led the way to ensure gas projects offset some of their emissions. Now as Premier he may need to choose between climate credibility and the interests of WA's most powerful man.

Analysis

Ten strikes against Nev Power’s west-east gas pipeline

Building a gas pipeline from WA to the east to help the the economy recover from COVID-19 is such an extraordinarily bad idea the judgement of Nev Power and others pushing it has to be questioned.

Coal

Win for residents as Cockburn Cement dumps coal for gas

Two Perth suburbs may face their last summer of dust and smells before a lime plant stops burning coal but it is more bad news for WA's coal miners.

Domestic Gas

Gas pipeline tariffs sparks war of words

With $194 million at stake the owner and users of WA's biggest gas pipeline are promoting vastly different views of the future of gas.

Domestic Gas

WA Government wants gas-powered growth

The WA Government wants to lure industry to WA with cheap gas just as the oil price plunge puts further supply from Woodside's Scarborough and Browse projects in doubt.

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The Varanus Island gas explosion that shook the WA economy

In 2007 WA lost 30% of its gas supply, and Apache Energy workers were lucky not to lose their lives, after a corroded gas pipeline failed and produced a gigantic explosion.

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McGowan calls for business to move west for cheap gas

WA Premier Mark McGowan wants eastern states businesses hurt by high gas prices to move west, but there is no certainty about ongoing cheap gas in WA.

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Cockburn Cement and regulator battle over residential stench

Residents and regulators are continuing a long fight against against the smell and dust from Cockburn Cement's plant on the edges of suburban Perth.