Energy Transition - Boiling Cold

North West Shelf Project's Goodwyn A gas platform

MacTiernan defends WA Government backing gas…for now

WA hydrogen minister Alannah MacTiernan believes a viable green hydrogen industry will build community support for the State's economy relying less on gas.

Energy Transition

Woodside Petroleum: doubling down for a dirty decade

Woodside and BHP have responded to the energy transition by heading in opposite directions. Here are 13 takeaways about Woodside's future. They will need some luck.

Hydrogen

Ammonia export a hope amidst Australia’s hydrogen hype: BNEF

Australia cannot compete exporting difficult to transport hydrogen but could use it locally to make low emissions products like ammonia for overseas markets.

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.

Energy Transition

The budget is a flight of fancy ignoring Australia’s low-emissions future

In this week's budget the Morrison Government ignored clean energy and instead took a long-odds bet that carbon capture and storage will allow fossil fuels to carry on untouched by climate concerns.

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.

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.