WA oil producer Triangle Energy has farmed out a 25 per cent stake in two onshore gas permits in the Perth Basin to Talon Energy in exchange for a $9.26 million pay day. The company believes the zones host significant gas resources and plans to unlock its potential through a trio of new exploration holes in 2024.
A fresh review of JV partners Triangle Energy Global and Pilot Energy's Cliff Head oil reservoirs suggests the assets could hold 9.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide – a 50 per cent increase on initial projections. The producer's oil fields are currently pumping out roughly 700 barrels of oil each day but once exhausted the aim is to use them to store carbon produced from power generation and industrial activities.
JV partners Triangle and Pilot Energy could lodge a formal application to use the company's Cliff Head oil reservoirs as carbon storage tanks in the next few weeks after finalising the regulatory approval data required for the submission. The producer's oil fields are currently churning out about 700 barrels of oil per day but once depleted it is hoped they will be used to progress the partnership's clean energy initiatives.
The Cliff Head joint venture between Triangle and Pilot Energy continues to deliver the goods with the duo completing its fourth tanker load of 26,500 barrels of oil onto the AB Paloma vessel at the Port of Geraldton in WA. Triangle Energy holds a 78.75 per cent share in the partnership and says the ship is now stocked with 53,000 barrels of oil and is on its way to a refinery in Asia where it will be sold.
WA oil producer Triangle Energy closed the September quarter on a high, completing a flurry of activity including its first oil delivery to a refinery in Thailand using a new shipping route, acquisition of two onshore exploration permits and banking a slice of a $6.9 million pay packet courtesy of oil sales associated to its Cliff Head joint venture partnership with Pilot Energy.
ASX-listed Triangle Energy could soon have $6.72 million to inject into its portfolio of WA-based oil and gas operations after selling off a slice of its interests in NSW oil and gas developer State Gas. Despite offloading 24 million shares, Triangle retains a strategic holding in State Gas of more than 10 per cent and says it is now well positioned to navigate an increasingly evolving energy sector.
WA oil producer Triangle Energy has formalised a deal to reduce its stake in the Cliff Head Joint Venture partnership shared with ASX-listed Pilot Energy. The company currently owns 80 per cent of the project but has agreed to sell off half its rights for $1 million – a sum projected to hit its coffers by the second quarter of next year, pending a government review of the duo's proposed carbon capture and sequestration plan for the site.
Triangle Energy's Cliff Head JV with Pilot Energy could soon pocket about $6.8 million after unloading and subsequently selling off close to 51,000 barrels of oil via a new shipping route through Thailand. The Perth-based oil and gas player could earn about $5.4 million from its share in the project with the company's joint venture partner taking home an estimated $1.4 million for its part of the deal. Another shipment is scheduled for later in the year.
Triangle Energy has completed the acquisition of two highly prospective oil and gas permits in WA's Perth Basin from ASX-listed explorer Key Petroleum. The company previously held a major stake in both assets and mopped up the balance in exchange for $600,000 in cash and $500,000 in shares to be issued on or before June 30, 2023.
Triangle Energy has taken a 100 per cent holding of oil and gas acreage in Western Australia that is currently producing 700 bopd and holding 617 Bcf and 19 million barrels of potential gas and oil respectively. The deal with Key Petroleum also sees the company buy back the five per cent production royalty from Key, that it says makes the permits more valuable.
Triangle Energy has notched up a second milestone for its Cliff Head joint venture in as many months, sending another oil shipment from the joint venture's Arrowsmith stabilisation plant onto a chartered tanker at the Port of Geraldton. The 26,500 barrels joined oil from its maiden lift with the 51,000 barrels now en route to a refinery in Thailand. Triangle holds an almost 79 per cent interest in the partnership with Pilot Energy holding the remainder.
Oil producer Triangle Energy has navigated an evolving commodity landscape, locking away $13.8 million in cash at the end of June – a leap of more than $11 million above its previous quarter. Oil revenue from its Cliff Head JV was $21.3 million for the period, courtesy of 148,000 barrels of oil sold. Receipts from customers leapt to $12.6 million up from zero in the March quarter.
Triangle Energy has secured a new export route for its Cliff Head oil to Asian crude markets, loading out 24,500 barrels through a newly established facility at the Port of Geraldton with another 25,000–30,000 barrels to be added in the next six weeks. The deal allows the company to move past this year's closure of BP's Kwinana crude oil handling centre.
Triangle Energy Global and Key Petroleum have extended the completion of their onshore Perth Basin acreage sale until the end of September due to unforeseen delays, however the pair are confident the deal will be cemented before then. Triangle is soaking up Key's interests in its L7 and EP 437 permits as the company refocuses its growth strategy from offshore Perth Basin oil towards big inland gas targets.
Triangle Energy Global hopes to increase production from its Cliff Head platform by replacing a downhole electrical pump that failed last year after 12 years in operation at the field, the only offshore producing facility in the prolific Perth Basin. The well was closed in September and the phased workover is expected to bring an extra 130 barrels a day.
Triangle Energy will bank almost $17 million from the latest oil sales from its share in the Cliff Head oilfield, offshore Dongara in Western Australia, after lifting more than 140,000 barrels of oil in the last output to be sold through BP's Kwinana oil terminal before it is converted into a clean energy hub. Triangle shares the Cliff Head venture with Pilot Energy.
Triangle Energy has completed the first stages of pivoting away from its ageing, offshore foundation asset of Cliff Head by completing a 3D seismic survey over its onshore permits as it seeks to replicate the success of fellow explorers in the Perth Basin in discovering elephant-size gas fields along the route of the Dampier-to-Bunbury natural gas pipeline.
Triangle Energy has outlined a series of new initiatives including the commencement of a seismic program over some significant onshore Perth Basin targets. Alongside Pilot Energy, the two companies have also outlined adjustments to a number of permits including for the Cliff Head joint venture that will result in a serious reduction in abandonment liabilities on completion.
Triangle Energy's imminent acquisition of a highly prospective Perth Basin block has been boosted by news it has delivered a 370 per cent increase in its best gas resource estimate – from 165 billion cubic feet of gas to 617bcf. Triangle is buying the 50 per cent it doesn't already own in the acreage from departing partner Key Petroleum.
Triangle Energy's new board has laid out its plan for the road ahead since taking control of the Perth Basin operator, focusing firmly on the $11 million final shipment from the BP Kwinana facility in June. The company has just completed a strategic review that aims to preserve and increase production across its portfolio of assets.
Perth Basin operator Triangle Energy is heading into 2022 with a completely refreshed board of directors led by new managing director Conrad Todd after his appointment this week to steer the company. The departures of shareholder Tamarind Energy and founding managing director Rob Towner earlier this month kicked off the renewal process.
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Oil junior Triangle Energy will start trading tomorrow with an entirely different board compared to just one week ago, when it had announced its then chief executive had resigned.
With the green energy revolution and particularly hydrogen gathering momentum at the same time that oil prices are enjoying a resurgence, many traditional oil and gas firms are conflicted in terms of priorities. The storage and sale of hydrogen is best undertaken by oil and gas firms and whilst many are attempting to dip their toe in the water, others are once again fixated on the burgeoning oil and gas price.
Triangle Energy, operator of the Perth Basin's only offshore oilfield, is hoping the recent run of company-making onshore gas finds will breathe new life into the drilling prospects near its Cliff Head field. The Perth Basin ‘deep gas' resurgence has reinvigorated exploration across the Basin, kicking off drilling programs, company takeovers and breathing new promise into a number of companies.
Triangle Energy is set to get the ball rolling on a front end engineering design study on a proposed 5,000 barrel per day modular feed renewable fuel refinery in the mid-west of WA. The refinery is slated to use crude, condensate and bio-crude feedstocks to produce renewable diesel and renewable marine fuel blends.
Unions have called to nationalise the shuttering Kwinana refinery as players take sides in a fuel security debate, although most oil processed at the plant is already imported.
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Triangle Energy Global has contracted GR Engineering Services for maintenance work at its Perth Basin operations, while at the same time introducing cost-savings measures to limit the impact of COVID-19.
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