Despite a recently announced planned capital raising, Australian-listed Oil Search, which has major stakes in Papua New Guinea’s emerging LNG sector, is a prime takeover target, as mergers become more likely in a low oil price world.
Woodside Petroleum has slashed its spending this year by 50%, to around $2.4 billion, but Senegal’s Sangomar development should progress as planned.
Equinor ASA has dropped plans for oil drilling deep in the ocean off Australia’s south coast following a sustained campaign from environmentalists who said the project posed too big a risk to the vast and unique marine ecosystem.
ExxonMobil’s PNG LNG expansion project risks being delayed several years after the government of Papua New Guinea rejected the US major’s proposed terms for the P’nyang field development.
Energy service firm Worley said today that its chief executive, Andrew Wood, will retire later this month after 26 years with the firm, including seven at the helm.
Energy services giant Wood has secured a £100 million, three-year contract extension to provide maintenance on Melbourne's water infrastructure.
Well engineering firm Zenith Energy is expecting an even better year ahead after UK office turnover soared by 80% during 2019.
Australian LNG exports will rise to 81 million tonnes in 2019-20, according to the country’s new Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ), although the value of these will decline.
U.S. energy giant Chevron will buy Australia's Puma Energy for about $292 million to provide more fuel distribution support in the Asia-Pacific region.
Southeast Asia and Australia are set to take centre stage in the region’s upstream M&A activity as private equity companies sense a value opportunity.
Aberdeen’s energy sector has been urged to invest in Western Australia as the country’s largest producer of natural gas embarks on a mammoth £20bn project.
Singapore-based Jadestone Energy has struck a deal to buy 69% of the Maari project offshore New Zealand from Austrian firm OMV for $50 million.
Spain’s Iberdrola SA has selected a site for its first project in the Asia-Pacific region, as Europe’s biggest renewable generator looks to expand beyond its core markets.
While low LNG spot prices have taken their toll, the Europe’s two major players in the sector, Total and Shell, performed strongly in the third quarter.
Japanese firm Modec will supply the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for ConocoPhillips' Barossa field, offshore Australia.
Oil Search’s LNG project in Papua New Guinea continued strongly in the third quarter but progress on a new three-train liquefaction plan is moving more slowly than had been expected.
Woodside Energy is pushing ahead with its Scarborough plan, even while the final investment decision (FID) for Browse has been pushed back to the first half of 2021.
Santos Energy has set out a deal to buy Australian gas assets, in the Northern Territory (NT), from ConocoPhillips for $1.39 billion.
Norwegian energy giant Equinor has picked up exploration acreage off Western Australia.
Australia’s Transborders Energy has signed up to a joint study agreement with Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) on floating LNG (FLNG).
Exxon Mobil is putting some of its offshore Australian assets up for sale as it continues to consider selling off many of its mature offshore assets around the world - from the Gulf of Mexico to the North Sea.
Australia’s Woodside Energy has signed a preliminary deal on supply LNG to Uniper Global Commodities.
Australia’s Western Gas is seeking partners to bring its Equus LNG project into production by 2024. The company has a plan for gas from the offshore Equus fields to be transported, via a 160 km pipeline, to a floating LNG (FLNG) facility near the shore.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has approved Total to proceed with the Papua gas project – but subsequent projects will be carried out under a new system.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has been sued by Australia’s tax authority as the agency pursues multinational companies over tax avoidance, the Guardian reported.