ConocoPhillips has completed its latest appraisal well on the Barossa field in the Bonaparte basin, offshore Australia's Northern Territory. The firm is now plugging and abandoning the well and will move to drill a second planned appraisal well…
Although Australia has some of the most progressive fiscal regimes for offshore oil and gas, the country is being short-changed in LNG exports, which is on the verge of further expansion this year. Audrey Raj reports. Shell’s…
Japan’s Inpex awarded Amec Foster Wheeler of a consultancy contract for the Ichthys Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project, the largest discovery of hydrocarbon liquids in Australia in the last 40 years. The scope of work involves Amec Foster…
Wood Group has won a new, multi-year contract with ConocoPhillips in Australia for brownfield engineering services to the Bayu-Undan field, in the Timor Sea, south west of Timor-Leste, and the Darwin liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Wickham Point…
Xodus Group has won a project to a deliver a suite of more than 40 offshore operating manuals for the Ichthys LNG project operated by INPEX off the coast of Western Australia. The Ichthys field was the largest discovery of hydrocarbon liquids in Australia for 40 years…
Engineering company Monadelphous Group has won a major long-term maintenance and modifications services contract associated with Shell's Prelude floating LNG (FLNG) project. The contract, worth more than AU$200 million, will be for provide maintenance…
Japan's INPEX has completed offshore pipelay of the 890km-long, 42in diameter gas export pipeline for the Ichthys LNG project. Pipelay on the project, which INPEX says is the longest subsea pipeline in the southern hemisphere and the third longest subsea pipeline in the world…
The Santos-led GLNG project has started producing its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) on Curtis Island, Queensland, on schedule and within budget, the company said. Train 1, which welcomed its first gas in August, is producing the gas…
Audrey Leon spoke with Infield Systems’ analysts James Hall and Wei Liu to get the bigger picture. According to Infield Systems, the offshore pipeline installation market over the next 12 months will be challenging. Infield has revised…
Stolt-Nielsen and Golar LNG jointly announced the formation of a 50/50 joint venture to pursue opportunities in small-scale LNG production and distribution. Stolt-Nielsen has made a strategic investment in Golar LNG through open-market purchases…
London-based Borders & Southern (B&S) completed a comprehensive seismic reservoir characterization study to investigate the Early Cretaceous shallow marine play fairway of its Darwin discovery offshore the Falkland Islands. The objective…
Saipem awarded Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies a US$10 million contract for the delivery of subsea structures for the gas export pipeline project of the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project. Image from Kongsberg…
Deepwater pipelay on the 889km-long gas export pipeline (GEP) for INPEX' Ichthys LNG Project has started offshore Australia. Saipem’s deepwater installation vessel Castorone will lay the remaining 718km offshore section of the 42in. diameter…
ConocoPhillips has started drilling on the third well in its Barossa area exploration campaign, Barossa-4, in the Bonaparte basin, offshore Australia's Northern Territory. The latest well follows the Barossa-3 appraisal well…
Expro obtained a US$50 million contract to supply a high rate well testing package and ancillary services for the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project, off Australia. Upon the terms of agreement, Expro will provide well testing, large bore subsea landing string…
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