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Yoga on the helideck is just one of the ways workers pass their free time on the largest offshore vessel ever constructed.
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Xodus Group to buy Australian environmental support firm
Energy consultancy Xodus Group has agreed to buy Green Light Environmental, based in Perth, WA, as part of its plans to expand in the Asia Pacific region.
Shell ships first LNG from world’s largest offshore facility Prelude
Shell has shipped the first LNG cargo from Prelude, the world’s largest offshore facility ever constructed.
WATCH: Australian coastguard carries out medevac from oil tanker
Footage has been released of a medical evacuation from a 250metre oil tanker.
Total signs agreement on $13bn Papau New Guinea LNG project
Total has reached an agreement with the government of Papau New Guinea allowing work to begin on a $13bn (£9.9bn) project to roughly double the country’s energy exports.
Aker gets subsea gig with Chevron off Australia
Aker Solutions will support the delivery of a subsea compression system for Chevron's Jansz-Io field offshore Australia.
Warrego shareholders get behind Petrel takeover
Shareholders of Aberdeen-based Warrego Energy have unanimously approved the firm's acquisition by Australia's Petrel Energy in a reverse takeover.
Aberdeen’s Xodus Group hails ‘strongest year’ for Asia-Pacific
Aberdeen-headquartered Xodus Group hailed its "strongest year" in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) following a clutch of contract wins.
Aberdeen told ‘don’t miss the boat’ on Western Australia opportunity
A top employment lawyer has warned North Sea firms not to “miss the boat” on getting a piece of Western Australia’s booming energy sector.
Shell starts production from world’s largest floating LNG platform
Shell has started production from the world’s largest floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility.
Warrego set for reverse takeover by Australian firm
Aberdeen-headquartered oil firm Warrego Energy will be acquired by an Australian company in a reverse takeover.
Where cheap power matters more than risk of climate disaster
Few places better illustrate the tension between pursuing profit and tackling climate change than Australia’s Abbot Point port in northern Queensland.
Shell’s up next, and last, in $200bn Australia LNG bonanza
And then there was one.
Ichthys LNG project begins gas exports
Total said today that the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Ichthys has left Darwin, Australia, following the production start-up at the end of July.
Jacobs to sell energy business to WorleyParsons for $3.3bn
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. agreed to sell its energy, chemicals and resources unit to Australia’s WorleyParsons Ltd. for $3.3 billion to focus on its higher growth and margin aerospace and infrastructure businesses.
1st Ichthys LNG cargo is said to be possible as soon as this week
The Inpex Corp.-operated Ichthys LNG export project in northern Australia may load its first natural gas cargo as soon as this week, according to people with knowledge of the venture’s preliminary sales plans.
Production gets going at Ichthys LNG project
Japanese oil firm Inpex said today that production had begun at the Ichthys LNG project offshore Australia.
Jadestone makes £147m acquisition of Montara project
Independent oil firm Jadestone Energy has completed a £147.1million acquisition of the Montara project off the coast of Australia.
Modec in contention for Barossa FPSO
Japanese firm Modec is in contention to provide a floating production vessel for the Barossa project in Australia.
Baker Hughes, GE picked for Gorgon subsea supply contract
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE) will supply subsea production equipment to Chevron for the second phase of the Gorgon LNG project off Australia.
BP pulls plug on £980m Australia petrol station purchase
BP has decided to back out of the £978 million (USD $1.3 billion) acquisition of Woolworths' retail business in Australia.
North Sea firms eye LNG market Down Under
Western Australia is a region characterised by its huge liquefied natural gas market, aiming to overtake Qatar as the world’s largest LNG exporter by 2020.
TechnipFMC clinches upgrade contract for Pluto
Australian firm Woodside has handed oil field service giant TechnipFMC the contract for upgrading the Pluto platform for water treatment.
Central processing facility for Ichthys LNG ready for action
Japanese firm Inpex said today that it had finished commissioning the central processing facility for the Ichthys LNG project off western Australia.
WATCH: Shell using drones to monitor thousands of wells in vast Surat Basin
Energy giant Shell has released a video of special remotely piloted drones which are used to inspect thousands of wells and pipelines in Australia.