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 BP interested in North West Shelf LNG but not Browse BP, unlike Chevron, remains committed to Woodside-operated North West Shelf LNG as it waits to drill nearby Ironbark, but Browse is unlikely to meet its investment criteria.
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 Leak sets back Shell’s restart of Prelude LNG Shell's Prelude floating LNG has stumbled on the road back to production after a failed seal caused subsea wells to be shut-in days after they were opened.
Shell Shells moves to restart Prelude after safety near miss The wells are open and safety inspectors arriving as Shell looks to recommence LNG production from its problematic Prelude floating LNG vessel off the WA coast.
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.
LNG Eight huge risks Chevron’s North West Shelf sales pitch missed Chevron's slice of the North West Shelf LNG project is touted as ideal for infrastructure investors. It is the opposite - highly risky, complex and dysfunctional.
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.
LNG Santos’ dirty big $2B Barossa bet Barossa would produce Australia's dirtiest LNG and if other companies will not back it Santos has a very expensive problem.
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
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.
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.
Carbon Emissions Shell goes carbon farming in Australia Major Australian LNG producer Shell has acquired a local carbon farming venture as part of its 30-year march to net-zero emissions.
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.
=== 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.
LNG Inside Woodside’s hall of mirrors Browse LNG is dead Cost, climate concerns and delay have killed Woodside's Browse LNG project and now it must negotiate with its old foes, the North West Shelf partners, to ensure Scarborough is developed.
Exclusive Investigation Western Gas, an ineffective regulator and a $US100M clean-up bill If Western Gas' Equus LNG project does not take off in these tough times neither the small company nor regulator NOPTA have an answer to how making safe the wells is paid for.
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.
Shell Shell slashes value of Prelude floating LNG Shell has followed BP in thinking its oil and gas assets are now worth much less in a post-COVID more climate-aware world and Prelude LNG is a big contributor to the value destruction.
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.
