Project Management
Woodside limits Scarborough cost bump but is silent on risk
Woodside is now chasing investors in its $US12B Scarborough to Pluto LNG project, but they need to look beyond the headline number.
Pluto LNG
The Woodside-operated Pluto LNG plant on the Burrup Peninsula started production in 2010.
Woodside Petroleum
Woodside + BHP Aussie oil & gas: inspiration or desperation?
Buying BHP’s Australian oil and gas assets could allow Woodside to escape its lost decade, but its shareholders and Australian taxpayers should count their fingers after the handshake.
Carbon Emissions
Woodside’s real plan for Pluto LNG: delay action, not reduce emissions
Woodside's Pluto net-zero 2050 plan is greenwashing, leaving 70% of cuts to the last five years despite investors telling CEO Meg O'Neill they want tangible speedy progress.
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.
Carbon Emissions
The green legal action that could halt Woodside’s $US11.4B Scarborough LNG
Woodside wants to sanction its $US11.4 billion Scarborough LNG project in 2021, but a legal challenge to regulatory approval for years of carbon emissions could put it in a two-year legal limbo.
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.
Domestic Gas
WA's near useless domestic gas deal with Woodside's Pluto LNG
Woodside's Pluto LNG plant has delivered less that one per cent of its gas to WA due to a 2006 WA Government deal that appeared generous then and looks feeble now.
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Little hope for local jobs from new Pluto LNG train
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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Woodside looks to supply LNG to ships, mines and remote islands
Woodside's Peter Coleman wants to develop new LNG markets in shipping, miming and remote communities by "breaking bulk" and delivering in smaller quantities.
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Woodside in no hurry to supply Pluto gas to WA
Woodside is confident it will not have to pipe gas to WA from its giant Pluto project despite the company’s five-year reprieve from the State’s domestic gas policy ending in May 2017.