In April 2008, Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare announced “The commercialisation of gas resources of our …
Developing the Top End’s gas industry
Whereas development in the Northern Territory and Timor Sea region had previously focussed on oil or wet gas, increasing liquefied …
Bonaparte Basin
The Bonaparte Basin is located primarily offshore in coastal waters off the north coast of Australia, straddling the border between …
Review of Taranaki Basin
Discovered more than 100 years ago, the Taranaki Basin holds recoverable gas reserves estimated at 5.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) …
Selling gas to New Zealand’s mass market
While natural gas accounts for around 29 per cent of New Zealand’s total primary energy usage, quite a low proportion …
Bass Strait – delivering gas for 40 years
The first successful Gippsland Basin well, East Gippsland Shelf 1 (later known as Barracouta 1), was drilled by Esso in …
Blacktip gas goes into production
The Blacktip Gas Field will bring gas onshore via a 110 km offshore pipeline to supply Northern Territory’s Power and …
Boomin’ Bowen
The Surat-Bowen Basin comprises two major zones; the southern Bowen Basin and Surat Basin in southern Queensland, and the northern …
Wrapping up major gas projects in Australia
While LNG has dominated the focus of the Australian gas industry in recent times, a number of major gas projects, …
New Zealand unlocks new gas potential
A case of unrealised potential The New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development commissioned McDouall Stuart in early 2009 to produce …