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 1964-65. The well discovered a 102.5 m gas column at a depth of 1,060 m. Following
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Out of sight, out of mind?

For example, the Federal Government’s announcement of a new National Clean Energy Target (CET), which provides for a single national low emissions energy target of 30,000 gigawatt hours of low-emissions
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Federal environmental approval for Gorgon

The revised and expanded proposal adds a third 5 million tonnes per annum (MMt/a) LNG train to the original two train proposal already approved for Barrow Island. Chevron Australia managing director Roy
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Gorgon is not an environmental risk

Speaking on Channel Ten’s Meet the Press program, Mr Ferguson said “There is no way the environment is at risk,”? when asked about the Gorgon project. He said that the ultimate
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Woodside ups the ante in the great gas race

“In less than five years from now our plans are to have in place and operating four times the Woodside equity capacity at Pluto as compared to our capacity at North West Shelf,”? Mr Voelte
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West Atlas oil and gas leak will be plugged

Approximately 40 bbl of oil was discharged from the wellhead in the initial incident and condensate has continued to be dispersed at pressure in the gas stream. PTTEP plans to control the leak by drilling
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APLNG moves toward FID

APLNG is a CSG to LNG joint venture with Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips both owning 50 per cent stakes. The project is one of many CSG to LNG projects planned to be located in Gladstone, Queensland.
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Seeds are sewn for new CSG production alliance

Mustang Engineering is the Australian affiliate of Mustang, an independent service provider, which forms part of international energy services company John Wood Group. Mustang and Fyfe provide complementary
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