"Australia" News

Technip, Samsung awarded Browse FLNG FEED

Jul 03, 2015

Technip Samsung Consortium has been named as the front-end engineering contract for the Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project in Australia, operated by Woodside. The Browse project will comprise three FLNG units, used to develop the Brecknock…

Subsea 7 inks Ichthys contracts

Jul 03, 2015

Subsea 7 has been awarded four contracts by Chevron Australia and INPEX Operations Australia for the engineering, procurement and construction of an emergency pipeline repair system (EPRS) to be used offshore Australia. This EPRS project consists of developing a process of repair…

Woodside's Browse FLNG enters FEED

Jul 01, 2015

After postponing a final investment decision due to the low oil prices last December, Australian operator Woodside Petroleum has announced it will press forward into the FEED phase for its long-struggling Browse LNG mega project. The…

APPEA: Industry focus needed on costs, competiveness

May 20, 2015

The oil and gas industry needs to focus on cost and competitiveness to thrive in the current low-oil-price environment, says Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Chairman Martin Ferguson. His comments were echoed by Roy Krzywosinski…

Auz 2015 offshore lease sale announced

May 19, 2015

Australia has total of 29 offshore blocks across eight basins up for bid that the government is offering up to investors in its annual Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. Map of the Browse basin…

MEO receives NT/P68 extension approval

May 13, 2015

The National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator (NOPTA) has granted a six-month extension to the permit year 5 of NT/P68 located offshore northern Australia, said MEO Australia Ltd.  Permit year 5 will now end 26 October, plus give…

Chevron adds to Gorgon gas finds

Apr 30, 2015

Chevron Australia made an additional gas discovery at the Greater Gorgon Area in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore northwest Australia. The Isosceles-1 exploration discovery well found about 134m of net gas pay in the Triassic Mungaroo Sands in 968m water depth…

Mexico on the global stage

Apr 09, 2015

Rystad Energy’s Senior Analyst Bielenis Villanueva Triana ranks Mexico’s exploration competitiveness as compared to other global prospective areas. Fig. 1: Mexico’s petroleum provinces which have proven hydrocarbon potential…

CO2 storage site hunting offshore Auz

Mar 19, 2015

The Duke, owned and operated by the Gardline CGG joint venture, has been selected by Geoscience Australia to acquire the Gippsland 2D Infill marine seismic survey offshore Victoria, Australia. Preparation for the project is underway and the expected start date is on 6 April 2015…

Tap taps Australia's offshore

Mar 09, 2015

Perth, Australia, based explorer Tap Oil has been awarded 100% of Blocks W14-7 and W14-16 in the Barrow and Dampier sub-basins on Australia's North West Shelf. The blocks were awarded as part of Australia's Work Program Round 1, which…

Australian and New Zealand offshore exploration

Mar 01, 2015

Angus Rodger and Matt Howell discuss the exploration environment as well as the potential impact from the recent fall in oil prices on Australian and New Zealand projects. Graphs from Wood Mackenzie.   Australia…

Hess, NWS sign Australia LOI

Dec 22, 2014

Hess’s Australian subsidiary, Hess Exploration Australia Pty Ltd. and the North West Shelf (NWS) signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) for Hess to develop its natural gas discoveries in its deepwater permits offshore northwestern Australia…

Woodside sanctions Persephone

Nov 27, 2014

The North West Shelf (NWS) Project partners, led by Woodside Energy, have approved the A$1.2 billion subsea Persephone project, off the north-west coast of Australia.  Persephone is the third major gas development for the NWS Project in the past six years…

Eni departs Heron

Oct 29, 2014

Eni's Australian subsidiary decided to shed its stake in the Heron area off Northern Australia after opting out of plans to drill a second well inside permit area NT/P68. The Italian explorer also elected to hold its current 50% share in the Blackwood area…

Wood Group PSN wins Woodside work

Sep 09, 2014

Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has secured a contract with Woodside in Western Australia which boosts Wood Group's maintenance and brownfield project portfolio in Australia. The scope of work includes the engineering, procurement and construction…

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