Mark Hatfield spent his youth cleaning tables in his father’s hamburger restaurant in Oklahoma, a world away from the Chevron Australia operation he now leads as managing director.
The state government and Shell Australia have penned a deal to supply and install boiler training equipment at South Metropolitan TAFE’s Munster facility.
A $16.5 billion plan to develop the Scarborough gas field and Pluto Train 2 has been approved by Woodside Petroleum, the biggest LNG investment sanctioned in WA in a decade.
Economic activity in WA could be $35 billion higher in 2027, with 9,700 more jobs, if a series of oil and gas projects enter construction, EY has projected.
Woodside Petroleum lured a self-confessed ‘tech geek’ from NASA to head its hydrogen plans, including a $1 billion-plus proposal for a Perth export hub.
Advisers have been appointed for a potential sale of Seven Group’s share of the Crux LNG project, managing director Ryan Stokes has said, while flagging deals around Coates and WesTrac.
Global Infrastructure Partners will join Woodside Petroleum’s $US5.6 billion Pluto LNG expansion, having struck a deal to acquire a 49 per cent stake in the project.
Chevron will spend $40 million in WA, and acquire carbon 5.2 million tonnes of offsets, to compensate for delays in the scale up of its Gorgon carbon sequestration plant.
Export revenue has become increasingly concentrated on iron ore but WA has still benefitted, while moves to net zero now dominate thinking. Click for the list of WA's biggest exporters.
A second large carbon capture and storage project could be built in the north west, with Woodside Petroleum, BP and Japanese investors to scope a new facility.
The state government is still working to clarify criteria for onshore gas projects to export, after it was revealed a Kimberley fracking proposal had been given the tick.
A Supreme Court ruling has shed new light on contractual disputes on the mammoth Gorgon gas project as Chevron and contractor CKJV fight over $400 million in disputed payments.
Strike Energy’s plan to extract gas in the Perth Basin will be subject to a review by the EPA, as the company's $2.3 billion Geraldton urea plant proposal passes another milestone.
The oil and gas sector has strongly criticised the state government’s new resources sector strategy, saying it failed to focus on policies needed to achieve future success.
The state’s peak environmental body has thrown its support behind Perth-based Perdaman Industries’ $4.3 billion Burrup urea project, recommending the proposal be approved.
Clearer exceptions to the state’s onshore gas export ban, and finalised fracking rules, will help WA attract continued investment, the petroleum industry had said in a parliamentary inquiry submission.
The state government must cut environmental approval times and rethink its new onshore export ban to make Mark McGowan’s gas-powered manufacturing plans a reality, a report shows.
