Australia-Oceania Archives

Total Confirms Remobilization, Planning Of The Papua LNG Project

(Total, 5.May.2021) — A meeting took place on 3rd of May between Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of Total, and a Delegation of Papua New […]

Shell Completes Sale Of Interest In QCLNG

(Shell, 15.Mar.2021) — QGC Common Facilities Company Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell, today announced it has completed the sale of a 26.25% interest […]

EnergyQuest’s 1st Australian LNG Shipment To Chile

(EnergyQuest, 19.Aug.2020) — Australia has just shipped its first LNG cargo to Chile. The cargo is from the Shell-operated QCLNG project at Gladstone in Queensland. […]

AES And 5B Pushing Solar Energy Transition

(AES, 30.Jul.2020) — The AES Corporation has made a strategic investment in 5B, a solar technology innovator based in Sydney, Australia. 5B’s revolutionary Maverick design […]

Chevron Expects To Restart Train 2 Of Gorgon LNG Plant

(Reuters, 28.Jul.2020) — Chevron Corp expects to restart Train 2 of its Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Australia in early September after completing […]

Chevron Completes Purchase Of Puma Energy (Australia)

(Chevron, 30.Jun.2020) — Chevron Australia Downstream Pty Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, today announced that it has completed the acquisition from Puma Energy […]

Arrow Energy Sanctions Surawat Gas Project

(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 16.Apr.2020) — Wood Mackenzie senior analyst Daniel Toleman comments on Arrow Energy’s announcement on the sanction of the Surawat Gas […]

Rosneft Cool On Venezuela’s Sweeter Gas Terms, For Now

(Argus, 6.Nov.2019) — Venezuela is offering sweeter fiscal terms to Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft for two offshore natural gas fields that are well-positioned to supply nearby […]

Bolsonaro Wants Brazil In OPEC

(AAWSAT, Mosaed al-Zayani, 31.Oct.2019) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday he was keen for his country to join OPEC, a move that would add […]

Bolsonaro Wants Brazil In OPEC

(Reuters, Stephen Kalin, Rania El Gamal, Alex Lawler, 30.Oct.2019) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that he wants his country to join OPEC, […]

OFAC Gives Nynas AB Time

(Sputnik, 18.Oct.2019) — The United States has extended a license that allows certain transactions with PDVSA’s joint venture Nynas AB despite US sanctions on the […]

BHP Ends Drilling Offshore Trinidad And Tobago

(Offshore, 17.Oct.2019) — BHP has had mixed results from the final two wells of its latest exploration campaign on its northern licenses offshore Trinidad and […]

BHP Ends Offshore Trinidad Drilling

(Offshore, 17.Oct.2019) — BHP has had mixed results from the final two wells of its latest exploration campaign on its northern licenses offshore Trinidad and […]

Petrobras Signs Charter Deals For Marlim

(Petrobras, 15.Oct.2019) — Petrobras signed letters of intent (LoI) with the Japanese company Modec (Marlim Unit 1) and the Malaysian company Yinson (Marlim Unit 2), […]

Qatar Petroleum Wins Three Blocks Offshore Brazil

(QP, 10.Oct.2019) — Qatar Petroleum has won exploration rights in three offshore blocks in Brazil, as part of two bidding consortia. The winning bids were […]

ANP 16th Round Attracts Record R$8.9bn Signings

(ANP, 10.Oct.2019) — The 16th Bidding Round collected R$ 8.9 billions in signature bonuses, a record value among the concession rounds already held in Brazil. […]

Brazil Approves 14 Firms For November Oil Tender

(Reuters, 30.Sep.2019) — Fourteen companies have been officially approved by Brazilian authorities to participate in an oil bidding round in November, in which total signing bonuses […]

Maduro Hopes Putin Will Offer More Than Words

(FT.com, Michael Stott and Henry Foy, 24.Sep.2019) — Threats of military invasion, sweeping economic sanctions, people power, recognition of a rival government, even an attempted […]

PDVSA Halts Blending At PetroPiar JV

(Argus, 16.Sep.2019) — Venezuela’s national oil company PdV has suspended crude blending at its 210,000 b/d PetroPiar joint venture with Chevron because of storage constraints, […]

CNPC Skips Venezuelan oil Loading For Second Month

(Reuters, Chen Aizhu, 10.Sep.2019) — China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), a leading buyer of Venezuelan oil, will skip cargo loadings for a second month in […]

Michelin Announces Theme For 20th Design Program

(Michelin, 30.Aug.2019) — Michelin North America will celebrate its 20th global design competition, Michelin Challenge Design, in 2020 by linking the past to the future […]

Höegh LNG Partners Reports 2Q:19 Financial Results

(Höegh, 22.Aug.2019) — Höegh LNG Partners LP reported its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2019. Highlights — Reported total time charter revenues […]

Höegh LNG Announces 2Q:19 Presentation Results

(Höegh, 22.Aug.2019) — Höegh LNG Partners LP will hold a presentation Thursday, August 22, 2019, at 8:30 A.M. (EST) to discuss financial results for the […]

China Stays Venezuela Course

(Argus, 20.Aug.2019) — The Chinese government is so far showing no sign of curtailing its oil ties to Venezuela, despite state-owned PetroChina’s rescheduling of Merey […]

OPEC Sees Bearish Oil Outlook For Rest Of 2019

(Reuters, Alex Lawler, 16.Aug.2019) — OPEC delivered a downbeat oil market outlook for the rest of 2019 on Friday as economic growth slows and highlighted […]

Karoon Eyes Output Boost After Grabbing Field

(Reuters, Marta Nogueira, 25.Jul.2019) — Karoon Energy Ltd aims to boost production by more than 60% at an oilfield it is purchasing from Petroleo Brasileiro […]

TechnipFMC Awarded Contract For Arctic LNG 2

(Technip, 23.Jul.2019) — TechnipFMC has been awarded a major(1) Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract by Novatek and its partners for the Arctic LNG 2 […]

BPs’s Statistical Review Of World Energy, Edition 2019

(BP, 21.Jun.2019) — BP released its Statistical Review of World Energy, edition 2019, which provides a timely and objective insight into those developments and how […]