Carbon Emissions WA’s top carbon polluters: LNG, power, iron ore and alumina WA's industrial greenhouse gas emissions are dominated by four products and a handful of companies, including a few that have managed to keep a low profile in the climate wars.
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.
Carbon Emissions Chevron sells greenhouse-impact certified LNG to Singapore Singapore's Pavilion Energy will buy Australian LNG from Chevron with certified greenhouse emissions, in another sign that Asian buyers are favouring less carbon-intensive gas.
Carbon capture and storage Gorgon emissions to soar until Chevron fixes restricted CO2 injection Gorgon LNG's carbon emissions will jump by more than one million tonnes a year until Chevron fixes an underground pressure management problem that caused WA's safety regulator to curtail CO2 injection by two-thirds.
LNG Shutdowns to keep Chevron’s Australian LNG production down through 2021 Technical problems at Gorgon and Wheatstone will give Chevron Australia another year of reduced LNG production while US headquarters remains hesitant about the energy transition.
Carbon capture and storage Chevron’s Gorgon emissions to rise after sand clogs $3.1B C02 injection system The WA safety regulator has told Chevron to turn down Australia's $3.1 billion showpiece Gorgon LNG carbon capture and storage system until problems are fixed, meaning carbon emissions will rise.
Carbon capture and storage Chevron faces little grief from Gorgon LNG's 7 million tonnes emissions miss Gorgon LNG has emitted 7 million tonnes of climate-warming CO2 more than permitted but Chevron is unlikely to suffer at the hands of lax Australian governments.
Chevron Chevron to restart Gorgon LNG train after $500M production loss Chevron prepares to restart a Gorgon LNG train after losing more than $500M of production to repair faulty welds. Two trains to go.
Safety Chevron gets final OK for extended Gorgon fix Chevron this week avoided a total shut down of its Gorgon LNG plant after it received final regulatory approval for delayed repairs to faulty welds.
LNG Chevron to redo its botched Gorgon weld repairs Welders will have to grind out and redo repairs at Gorgon performed to an incorrect procedure provided by Chevron and the delay could cost up to $250M.
Safety Chevron’s fix of Gorgon LNG cracks delayed Chevron's problems at Gorgon LNG from faulty welds years ago in a South Korean factory continue with delays to repairing the first of three trains to be fixed.
Safety Chevron's Gorgon LNG faces up to $1.4B hit to fix cracks After action by safety regulators Chevron will progressively shut down all LNG trains at Gorgon to fix faulty welds in propane-filled pressure vessels.
Chevron Gorgon CO2 injection questions remain one year on Chevron's ambitious injection of Gorgon CO2 shaped the $US54B LNG project and a year after starting up 2.5 years late its long-term performance remains to be proved.
Safety Chevron cops 33 orders from regulators to make Gorgon safe Chevron faces shutting Gorgon LNG down to make it safe after WA safety regulators responded to reports of thousands of cracks in propane-filled vessels.
Safety Gorgon weld problems raise safety questions Chevron will not answer Chevron has "put additional mitigations in place" to protect workers while it mulls what to do with two giant LNG trains operating at Gorgon that could have defective welds.
Chevron Chevron plans to fix and restart Gorgon Train 2 by September Chevron intends to have cracked propane vessels fixed and Gorgon LNG back in full production by September as it awaits inspection by the safety regulator.
Safety Regulator OK with Gorgon safety but will inspect early next week The safety and economic stakes for Gorgon LNG are high as WA Government inspectors soon head to Barrow Island to check on Chevron's cracked pressure vessels.
Safety Safety regulator to inspect Chevron's Gorgon ASAP Safety regulators knew nothing of cracked pressure vessels at Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant until alerted by media reports and now plan to inspect the equipment themselves.
Safety Cracks at Chevron's Gorgon threaten safety and LNG production Thousands of cracks raise questions about the safety of the Gorgon LNG plant and operator Chevron will decide to shutdown or maintain revenue, with the safety regulator on the sidelines.
Carbon Emissions Chevron's dodge on Gorgon LNG carbon pollution rejected Chevron has been denied a two-year free pass on Gorgon greenhouse gas emissions by the WA Government that could cost it more than $80 million, and there may be a future bill for Wheatstone as well.
Chevron Chevron stays the carbon course as it hints at Woodside deal Chevron boss Mike Wirth is not distracted by renewables as he pushes for more and lower cost production and looks to move gas through Woodside's Scarborough project.
=== from the archive === Chevron looks to new subsea compression technology for Gorgon Chevron may boost gas production from its Jansz-Io field to Gorogn LNG with subsea compression technology used just once before in Norway.
=== from the archive === Gorgon's catastrophic start-up In early 2017 Chevron's rush to ship the first LNG from the $US54 billion Gorgon project to meet its chief executive's deadline had disastrous consequences.
=== from the archive === PRRT: Australia's gas tax that does not work Australia's Petroleum Resources Rent Tax has incredibly generous annual uplifts in allowable deductions that will likely see little or no payments from its offshore LNG projects.
