WA Government Ten tales of Woodside’s merry men: Mark, Bill and Ben On the occasion of recent WA treasurer Ben Wyatt joining the Woodside board Boiling Cold reviews the top 10 wins for Woodside from WA Labor's first term.
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.
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.
Shipping Rio orders LNG ore carriers after Fortescue dumps gas for green ammonia In the race to decarbonise iron ore shipping Rio and BHP are chasing incremental improvements with LNG while Andrew Forrest's Fortescue wants zero-emission green ammonia ASAP.
Carbon Emissions Eye in the sky spies Shell's Prelude floating flare machine Shell's production of millions of tonnes of carbon emissions by burning excess gas at Prelude LNG 400km off the WA coast will no longer go unnoticed, with satellites now tracking flaring across the globe.
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.
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.
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.
net-zero 2050 Big WA polluters fail green investment test Most big WA carbon polluters including Chevron, Adbri, South32 and Woodside are wanting on emissions reduction targets, strategy and cash, according to benchmarking for the world's biggest investors.
Woodside BHP’s Geraldine Slattery leads pack to replace Peter Coleman at Woodside The next Woodside chief executive will be the first to decide what to do apart from gas. Low-profile BHP Petroleum head Geraldine Slattery is a lead contender to take charge of this pivotal WA company.
Decommissioning Australian offshore oil and gas industry has a $52B clean-up bill Much of the $52 billion cost to decommission Australia's offshore oil and gas infrastructure will fall on the Federal Government via the tax system and work has started to boost industry collaboration and find cost savings.
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.
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.
Gas BP's Ironbark well fails to find gas BP's Ironbark well off WA is a duster with "no significant hydrocarbon shows" killing hopes of gas supply to the North West Shelf LNG plant and crashing shares in Cue and NZ Oil and Gas.
LNG Conservation Council moves to quash Woodside's growth plans The Conservation Council has launched legal action against Woodside and the WA Government that may reopen environmental approvals essential to the Scarborough and Browse LNG projects.
Safety Wheatstone platform still partly shutdown as Chevron investigates anomaly Chevron has another pressure vessel to worry about, this time on the Wheatstone platform, after Gorgon LNG production was slashed this year to fix faulty welds.
Chevron Chevron slashes global spend and ignores energy transition Chevron slashes more than $US20 billion off its five-year spend due to lower demand and prices for fossil fuels but allocates just 2% of its 2022 budget to the energy transition.
Chevron New boss at Chevron Australia as Al Williams gets global PR gig Al Williams will leave Australia to manage Chevron's global reputation after handling numerous crises in his three years in charge of the Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects.
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.
Analysis Is Woodside a high-risk low-return bet on Scarborough LNG? With only one growth option Woodside is selling Scarborough LNG hard, but is it a sensible investment in a world moving to tougher action on climate?
LNG Woodside spins scant Scarborough progress ahead of Coleman’s big day Tomorrow Peter Coleman must convince investment analysts that Woodside has a credible growth plan with Scarborough LNG, and that will take more than spin about a few approvals.
