Gorgon News

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…

Realizing CCS’s potential

Jul 01, 2015

Could the North Sea become a CO2 storage site? Elaine Maslin takes a look at two proposed projects and some of the challenges involved. The CCS goal—how the Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage sees carbon capture and storage on and offshore…

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…

Chevron updates Gorgon

Mar 10, 2015

Chevron shows several new updates and project milestones for its Gorgon project, which is 90% complete as of 30 January. Gorgon is located between 130-220km off the northwest coast of Western Australia. The project aims to develop the Gorgon and Jansz-Io gas fields…

Fulcrum year for mega gas

Apr 20, 2015

2015 may well be remembered as the year when natural gas truly announced itself as the major energy fuel source. With the announcement that Shell is targeting a US$70 billion deal for BG Group, and in doing so increasing their current LNG capacity to around 33 million tons per annum…

Ensuring the integrity of fatigue-sensitive SCRs

May 01, 2015

Denise Smiles, of Optical Metrology Services Ltd (OMS), discusses how to correct internal HiLo misalignment between butted pipes. OMS’ automatic pipe end dimensioning tool. Images from OMS. Deepwater…

Short-term uncertainties in the deep

May 01, 2015

Infield Systems’ Catarina Podevyn takes a look at recent oil price movements and market conditions on the deepwater (500m+) capex spending up to 2019. Olympus platform in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico…

Chevron, SK LNG sign Gorgon contract

Jan 21, 2015

Chevron’s Australian subsidiaries signed a binding sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with SK LNG Trading (SK), in which SK will receive 4.15 million-tonne of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over a five-year period starting in 2017. Gorgon LNG site…

McDermott wins Indonesia subsea contract

Mar 03, 2015

FMC Technologies awarded McDermott International a sizeable manifold and subsea safety isolation valve module fabrication contract for the Jangkrik fields located offshore Kalimantan, Indonesia. McDermott’s Batam Island facility in Indonesia…

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…

Different risk profiles among deepwater projects

Jan 01, 2015

GlobalData’s Adrian Lara sheds light on the kinds of deepwater projects expected to advance while the price of oil continues to fall. Engineers from Jumbo Maritime deliver 25 MOF caissons for the…

Chevron awards Downer Gorgon contract

Sep 05, 2014

Downer EDI Ltd. secured a contract on the Chevron-operated Gorgon project, located on Barrow Island off the northwest coast of Western Australia. The US$170 million contract is for an initial term of 12 months, with extension options…

Apache to exit high-profile LNG projects

Aug 12, 2014

US oil and gas company Apache says it will exit both Chevron-operated LNG projects, Kitimat and Wheatstone, in which the company holds equity interests in order to focus on its more lucrative onshore business. Apache’s Chairman and CEO G…

Australian Parliament repeals maritime crew visas

Jul 17, 2014

On 17 July, senators in the Australian Parliament voted to disallow the Federal Government from continuing to issue Maritime Crew (subclass 988) visas to foreign workers for the purposes of working in Australia’s offshore oil and gas industry…

Shell cuts stake in Woodside

Jun 17, 2014

Royal Dutch Shell is selling a major portion of its stake in Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd., raising AU$5.7billion. Shell is selling 9.5% back to Woodside, and another 9.5% to institutional investors, at a small discount to the closing share price on 16 June 2014…

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