Decommissioning Regulator blasts ExxonMobil’s Bass Strait maintenance, orders huge decommissioning push Bass Strait partners ExxonMobil and BHP must plug 180 wells, dismantle ten platforms and tackle life-threatening corrosion after intervention by offshore safety regulator NOPSEMA.
Decommissioning Regulator calls time on delays to $52B offshore oil and gas decommissioning Regulator NOPSEMA has wrested control of the schedule for cleaning up Australia's offshore oil and gas fields from tight-fisted operators in a move that may result in an offshore jobs boom later this decade.
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.
Safety Behind closed doors: what worries Australia’s offshore safety regulator NOPSEMA While Australia's offshore oil and gas industry grew safety regulator NOPSEMA was troubled by cost-cutting operators, old wells to clean up and dealing with COVID-19.
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.
Decommissioning Regulator tells Woodside to clean up oil field and may take legal action Woodside's own lack of maintenance means it cannot dispose of an 83m-long structure onshore as planned and will instead sink it to be an artificial reef near the Ningaloo Marine Park
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.
Safety ENI’s poor maintenance causes marine hazard off WA coast An eight year wait for ENI's Woollybutt oil field to be decommissioned and poor maintenance have caused subsea kit to surface and pose a danger to vessels.
Decommissioning Sellers of oil and gas assets should stay liable for cleanup: report North Sea expert recommends changes to stop a repeat of Woodside escaping a $360 million cleanup bill by paying a tiny inexperienced company to take an old rusty asset.
Decommissioning Northern Endeavour still waiting on Federal Government plan While the idle Northern Endeavour costs $4 million a month, Government and industry are still talking about how to keep the clean-up bill below a possible $230 million.
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.
Decommissioning Tougher policing of offshore oil and gas decommissioning Offshore oil and gas operators that continually delay costly decommissioning will now be watched more closely by offshore safety and environment regulator NOPSEMA.
NOPSEMA Woodside gets environmental OK for Scarborough LNG NOPSEMA has given the environmental credentials of Woodside's Scarborough LNG project a regulatory tick and gushing praise.
Shell Shell shutters Prelude LNG and delays Crux expansion Shell has shuttered production from its giant Prelude floating LNG facility and delayed the Crux backfill gas project.
Woodside 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.
Woodside Woodside slashes offshore maintenance workforce Woodside has heavily pruned its critical offshore maintenance teams leaving casual workers facing an uncertain future.
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.
Decommissioning Big taxpayer bills for failed Northern Endeavour start The first bill of $10 million bill is due for the failed Northern Endeavour as it is revealed that Woodside's sale of the vessel four years ago required no government approval.
=== from the archive === Government asleep as offshore failure developed If the Federal Government had been alert the financial failure of the Northern Endeavourur would not have been a surprise. Now Canberra has a huge bill for its omission.
=== from the archive === Star of the South still in regulatory abyss Offshore wind power is growing across the globe but Australia's only proposed project off Victoria has no regulation system to seek approval from.
=== from the archive === Cutbacks and haste spell danger on Northern Endeavour Maintenance cutbacks and pressure to resume production made the Northern Endeavour oil vessel a dangerous place to work.
