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
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
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 Erregulla 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.