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Chevron's disregard for requirements to use WA labour where practical, and to insist its contractors do the same, has been blasted in WA's Parliament.
The US giant, which made $8 billion in Australia in 2024, is forcing its subcontractors to follow its example and send Australian engineering jobs overseas.
Despite local content requirements and a fat profit from Australia, Chevron will now export jobs as well as gas.
WA Premier Roger Cook's core "Made in WA" election policy will be tested by his use of local content provisions to keep Chevron's WA engineers working in WA.
A $6B high-tech subsea compression system will keep Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant supplied with gas but little of the massive spend will occur in Australia.
WA cannot match Asian shipyards for large LNG trains, according to Woodside's Mike Utsler, and most work will be done overseas.
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