Reimagining Australia’s shale gas revolution

Australia faces a potential energy shortage, yet it has 437 Tcf of shale gas reserves that could transform the domestic gas market, increase energy security and bolster our economy. However, the nascent
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Structuring your farm-in in an unconventional world

Explorers could end up with significant tenement areas, some more prospective than others, and the more speculative acreage they farmed out. In a simpler regulatory and tax environment, such farm-outs
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Regulated gas price hike confirmed: IPART

Consistent with the draft decisions released for consultation in April, regulated gas prices will increase by an average of 17.8 per cent in 2014/15, with prices relatively stable in 2015/16. From 1 July
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Corio City Gate heating system

Corio City Gate is SP AusNet’s most critical gas asset in terms of the number of customers it supplies, and as the single supplier of natural gas to Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria.
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Industry responds to carbon tax repeal

The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) Chief Executive David Byers has commented on the significance of the repeal, saying that it allows Australian LNG exporters to again
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LNG Ltd granted Fisherman’s option extension

The extension follows a submission on the status of gas supply for the first LNG train that the company says will produce up to 1.5 MMt/a of LNG, with a nameplate capacity of 1.9 MMt/a.
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Major project milestones reached at Ichthys

INPEX launches Ichthys FPSO hull The hull of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility was launched from the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering shipyard’s
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