Inpex

Bayu Undan offshore gas facilities in the Timor Sea.

Santos internal analysis: $US1.6B Bayu-Undan carbon storage is low return and high complexity

Australian LNG producers are under pressure on emissions and decommissioning, and Santos wants to tackle both problems in one swoop at Bayu Undan, but it needs everyone to play along.

Inpex's Ichthys Venturer FPSO loading condensate with the Ichthys Explorer central processing platform in the background.

Carbon Emissions

Ichthys flaring casts doubt on carbon-neutral LNG cargo

TotalEnergies shipped a carbon-neutral LNG cargo from Ichthys in late 2020 when the Inpex-operated project had massive flaring of gas but will not confirm if the above normal emissions were offset.

Carbon capture and storage

Santos and ENI team up to tackle dirty gas and decommissioning

Santos and ENI are looking for solutions for CO2 and removing old facilities in the waters north of Darwin. Time will tell if the problems are solved or just delayed.

Carbon Emissions

Ichthys gas supply plans to destroy Inpex emissions pledge

Inpex pledged in January 2021 to cut its emissions 30 per cent this decade while it was planning to boost CO2 from Ichthys LNG, which accounts for three quarters of its carbon footprint, by 30 per cent.

Carbon Emissions

Inpex’s Ichthys LNG emissions bust negates 1.7M solar panels

Ichthys LNG is giving Inpex and Australia a huge carbon pollution problem that is likely to grow as the Japanese company looks to troublesome carbon capture and storage to limit the environmental and financial damage.

Safety

Regulator orders Inpex to stop Ichthys drilling until it is safe

After 200 tonnes of large pipe fell out of control Inpex and Maersk cannot drill for more gas at Ichthys until they convince the regulator that there will be no potentially fatal incidents.

Carbon capture and storage

Inpex moves to clean up Ichthys' dirty LNG

A year after Inpex rejected carbon capture and storage at Ichthys LNG as unaffordable it is an essential element in its new drive to slash emissions by 2030.

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.

LNG

Inpex slashes value of Prelude LNG by a third

Inpex thinks the value of Prelude floating LNG has dropped 37% this year, joining the queue of companies seeing much less value in Australia's LNG future.

Safety

Offshore maintenance backlog worries unions and safety regulator

Delays in offshore oil and gas maintenance after COVID-19 workforce cuts worries safety regulator NOPSEMA and unions, who have pointed to Inpex's Ichthys LNG project as a concern.

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.

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.

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.

Inpex

Casual offshore workers left behind as Inpex prepares for virus

Inpex is reducing its offshore workforce to tackle COVID-19 risk leaving casual workers not knowing when they will next have paying work.

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Inpex has Ichthys on track to start in March

The $US37 billion Ichthys LNG project is on track to start up next March as its two giant vessels moored about 200km off the Kimberley are readied for production.

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Inpex likely to never pay Australia for gas for Ichthys LNG

The Inpex-led Ichthys LNG project will export $195 billion of LNG, LPG and condensate over 30 years but it will not pay Australia anything for the gas it extracts.

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Key contractor abandons Inpex's Ichthys LNG plant build

A second key contractor has walked away from Inpex's $US37B Ichthys LNG project, taking 800 workers, over a payment dispute.

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Inpex loses crucial Ichthys contractor

The termination of a key power station contract at the Ichthys LNG project threatens Inpex's plans for first production in September 2017.