Wheatstone LNG

Carbon Emissions

Environment watchdog wants Chevron plan for net-zero Wheatstone LNG emissions by 2050

Chevron's Wheatstone LNG is in the firing line of a new approach from the WA Environmental Protection Authority that forced big emissions cuts from the Waitsia gas project.

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.

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.

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 stays the carbon course as it hints at Woodside deal

Chevron boss Mike Wirth is not distracted by renewables as he pushes for more and lower cost production and looks to move gas through Woodside's Scarborough project.

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Chevron pays $866m after tax case loss

Chevron has paid the Australian Taxation Office $US654 million ($866 million) under a partial settlement of its dispute with the tax office over intercompany loans and slashed the interest rate it charged its Australian subsidiary.

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Chevron reaps $32m a day from Australian gas

The Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects are now enjoying cash margins of more than $US30 a barrel at a $US50 price and production from the $111 billion mega-projects is expected to increase.

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Wheatstone faces return of carbon curb

Chevron's Wheatstone LNG project may need to offset more than one million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year if restrictions that were removed by Colin Barnett in 2013 are reinstated.

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Wheatstone startup threatened by offshore problems

Chevron is challenged to meet Wheatstone LNG first LNG target as it continues fixing piping systems on the offshore platform.

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Coleman looks to Wheatstone for Woodside's upside

Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman hopes the ramp-up of Wheatstone goes well as the Perth-based group braces for a big reduction in its domestic gas sales in 2017

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Wheatstone platform problems threaten schedule

Chevron’s budget and schedule for the Wheatstone LNG project face questions from significant unplanned work underway on the project’s offshore platform.

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Chevron's Wheatstone has $US5B budget blowout

The cost of Chevron's Wheatstone LNG project has jumped $US5B a week after minor partner Woodside said it expected no changes.