Our weekly appointments wrap includes Stuart Nicholls, Tony Kiernan, Peter Blackmore, Fabio Mancini, Pele Reeve, Rick McKenzie, Brad O'Donnell, Matthew Keating, and new board members and staff announcements for the Centre for Stories.
Perth company Western Gas is on the hunt for a partner for its Equus gas field project off the WA coast, and has revealed a new development plan, with first gas expected in 2023.
Even those with only a passing interest in the resources sector would recognise there's something unusual about an iron ore miner talking up a natural gas project and an oilman talking it down.
A newly established company led by a group of Perth oil and gas executives aims to become a major supplier to the domestic gas market after buying the offshore Equus gas fields from US company Hess Corporation.
March quarter revenue was down by nearly a third on the same period last year, Woodside Petroleum revealed today, although it flagged that it was continuing work with Hess on gas processing from the Equus field.
SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australia's next major greenfields liquefied natural gas project could be a decade away after Woodside last month decided against further progressing its Browse floating LNG facility.
Today at AOG: US petroleum company Hess is pursuing development of its Equus gas field off the Pilbara coast, with senior manager Andrew Drayton telling the Australasian Oil & Gas conference today it would proceed with a variety of tendering opportunities this year, including for subsea work.
WA is poised to double its LNG production, but softer oil prices and global competition for capital mean there is much conjecture about the sector's future. Click through to see more on our major oil and gas projects feature.
US company Hess Corporation has moved closer to developing its large Equus gas field off the WA coast, after striking an agreement to process the gas through the North West Shelf venture's Karratha plant.
Western Australia has an abundance of gas and explorers are looking for more, both offshore and onshore, but there are questions over how much growth the industry can sustain.
International subsea engineering company Wood Group Kenny has won an $8 million front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the subsea development of Hess Exploration's Equus offshore deep
The state's Northwest Shelf continues to deliver good news for US energy company Hess Corporation, which today announced another natural gas discovery in Jurassic and Triassic sandstones.
