People living and working in the Gladstone area will be beneficiaries of a plan committing to significant social and community benefits for the region. Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning Jeff Seeney visited Gladstone today to announce Queensland’s first So
CNPC and China Guodian Corporation signed last week a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing. Under the agreement, the two sides will jointly promote the development of natural gas power generation by leveraging CNPC’s strengths in natural gas resources and Guodian’s dominant position in power i
Shell today published its Sustainability Report for 2011, which details how sustainable development helps it to deliver energy to meet the world’s growing energy demand in a responsible way. The report covers Shell’s environmental and social performance for the year and outlines its contribution tow
WestSide Corporation announced that the Company’s fully-underwritten, 2-for-5 pro rata non-renounceable Entitlement Offer and Top Up Facility at A$0.25 per share, raising $25.4 million, has closed well oversubscribed. The Offer was oversubscribed with demand exceeding the 101,676,540 shares availabl
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) services contract by the Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company (ADGAS) for the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase of their Flaring & Emission Reduction project at their Liq
GDF SUEZ od France and GASNOR, a Norwegian LNG company, have concluded a long term agreement, according to which GDF SUEZ will supply GASNOR with 7.5 TWh of liquefied natural gas over a 12-year period, starting in 2013. The LNG volumes will be sourced from GDF SUEZ portfolio and will be loaded by tr
MEO Australia Limited announced that it has completed preliminary discussions with a number of major industry participants in relation to the commercialisation of the Tassie Shoal Projects. As a consequence, formal Expressions of Interest (EoI) have been received from potential buyers for the purcha
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), has established a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to investigate the operational feasibility of LNG bunkering in Singapore in collaboration with Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Clean Technology Centre and 21 industry partners. The JIP, co-funded through MPA’
Bechtel Corporation announced its business results for 2011, highlighting another strong year in which the company delivered solid performance. Bechtel had revenue of $32.9 billion, up 18 percent from the previous year, and new contract awards totaled $53 billion, more than double 2010 performance.
Arrow Energy of Australia has welcomed the Queensland Government’s approval to release the company’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for its liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Curtis Island off Gladstone, in Central Queensland. The release of the Arrow LNG Plant EIS, which will become availab
Oil Search reports that as at 06:00 hrs PNG time on 12 April, the P’nyang South 1 ST1 well was at a depth of 2,479 metres and preparations were underway to cement the 9-5/8” casing. On completion of the cementing programme, the forward plan is to drill ahead to the primary reservoir objectives. P’ny
Technip said it has been awarded a subsea contract by Chevron Australia Pty Ltd for the Wheatstone Project, one of Australia’s largest resource projects. The contract, valued at approximately EUR245 million, covers the development of the Wheatstone and Iago fields, located in the Carnarvon Basin, of
The Gazprom headquarters hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Vardan Arutyunyan, Director General and Chairman of the ArmRosGazprom Board. The meeting participants reviewed the issues of Russian gas pricing for Armenian consumers between
Tap Oil Limited provides the following update on the Tallaganda-1 exploration well in permit WA-351-P offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Location / Proposed Depth The Tallaganda-1 well is located within permit WA-351-P, of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. The well was drilled in 1,1
