Gas
Another job cull at Woodside
Employees across Woodside lost their jobs today, with many more expected to follow, as chief executive Meg O'Neill chases a 30 per cent cut in operating costs.
Industrial Relations
Most industrial relations in WA comes under Federal law and workers are covered by awards, enterprise bargaining agreements or individual agreements.
Industrial Relations
UGL pushed spurious safety risks at Chevron’s Gorgon to kill industrial action
Maintenance contractor UGL has used a clause designed to ensure safety during a strike at Chevron's Gorgon LNG to portray the industrial action as illegal.
COVID-19
Oil and gas job cuts six times deeper than 2020 Australian average
The Australian oil and gas industry shed about 3000 jobs in 2020, a far deeper cut than the national average, leaving the offshore safety regulator NOPSEMA worried about lack of maintenance.
COVID-19
Unions call on Inpex to improve travel to Ichthys
Unions want Inpex to return to the pre-COVID practice of flying workers through Broome, not the remote Truscott airstrip.
Industrial Relations
Chevron's red tape for its doubly deep Aussie job cull
Chevron's 5-month process to trim its Australian workforce twice as hard as its global cuts will now start the musical chairs of allocating spots in the leaner organisation.
COVID-19
Shell tells Prelude LNG workers to isolate in their own time
To reduce the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak offshore Shell has told its Prelude LNG workforce to spend half their leave in quarantine
Safety
Offshore oil and gas warned long rosters affect mental health
Extended offshore rosters can be bad for the mental health of workers and the safety of the facility, warns offshore safety regulator NOPSEMA.
Woodside Petroleum
Woodside dumps 12-week work roster
Woodside has dropped plans for a 12-week work roster blasted by unions as "catastrophically unsafe" and will move to a temporary roster of two weeks of isolation, four weeks work and two weeks at home to manage COVID-19 risk.
Woodside Petroleum
Woodside offers workers big bucks as inspiration against exhaustion
Woodside's offshore workers may get a $50,000 bonus for working 12 weeks straight but unions claim the long stint is unsafe.
Inpex
New virus roster at Inpex: isolation, offshore, home
Offshore unions have welcomed a deal with Inpex that adds two-weeks of isolation to the roster and gives half-pay to stood-down workers but slammed what they say is a Woodside proposal to work offshore for 12 weeks straight.
Industrial Relations
Woodside and Chevron dividends flow as LNG jobs culled
WA LNG producers Woodside and Chevron, beset by low prices and COVID-19 work restrictions, are maintaining dividends to shareholders and gas to customers as they shed workers, with unions describing Woodside’s actions as “brutal, cold, and unnecessary.”
Woodside Petroleum
Woodside slashes offshore maintenance workforce
Woodside has heavily pruned its critical offshore maintenance teams leaving casual workers facing an uncertain future.
COVID-19
Demobbed Inpex offshore casuals gain temporary financial reprieve
Casual workers taken off Ichthys offshore facilities by Inpex will be paid at least until next week under a standby deal similar to workers from the troubled Prelude LNG vessel.
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Chevron preps to cull 400 workers
Chevron is preparing to shed about 400 employees from its WA business, just months after approving a new construction project and backing an LNG jobs initiative.