News Articles for Woodside Energy

A slightly lower $1.1 billion dollar annual profit has masked another excellent year for Woodside Petroleum Ltd, Australia's largest oil and gas producer.

Woodside Petroleum has taken out space in two CBD buildings to house 160 of its staff, just two years after moving in to its purpose-built St Georges Terrace tower.

Iraq's Australian ambassador will meet Woodside Petroleum officials in Perth next week during his first official visit to Western Australia.

Woodside has agreed key commercial terms with North Asian customers for the supply of liquefied natural gas from its 100 per cent-owned Pluto gas field in Western Australia.

Woodside Petroleum is selling a series of non-core assets for about $170 million, just as a political deal over maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea could clear the way for its Sunrise gas project to be revived.

The year 1991 was a bad time to be in business. It was the year Australia had “the recession we had to have”, to quote the immortal words of then Prime Minister Paul Keating.

Australia's universities are highly competitive, especially in their pursuit of research dollars, yet some of the best research occurs when they collaborate.

WOODSIDE Energy USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Woodside Petroleum, has expanded its offshore interests in the Gulf of Mexico by acquiring Gryphon Exploration Company.

Woodside, Australia's largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company was ranked number three in this year's WA Business News most successful corporate brands survey.

WOODSIDE Energy has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Shell Development Australia, to buy part of Shell's interests in the Laminaria-Corallina project, off northern Australia.

WOODSIDE West Africa, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Woodside Petroleum, has successfully bid for an offshore exploration block in Liberia.

Encouraging more occupiers and owners to vote doesn't necessarily mean more democracy.

Woodside Energy Ltd - 20-May-04Otway Gas Project has received joint venture approval.

Woodside Energy Ltd - 20-May-04 Otway Gas Project has received joint venture approval.

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REDUNDANCIES are considered commonplace in the human resources sector and are not viewed in as negative a light as they were a decade ago. But this is no comfort to Woodside employees at the sticky end of downsizing.

Two more Woodside-led pipeline projects to bring gas onshore to southern and northern Australian consumers are sitting more firmly on the drawing boards.

WOODSIDE Petroleum is being coy on measures coming out of a cost-cutting review initiated in January.

WESTERN Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Energy continued its geographical expansion with last week's announcement that it had taken a farm-in interest in a field in the Gulf of Mexico.

Former Metasource managing director Richard Beresford has left his appointment just six months after the launch of the Woodside renewable and sustainable energy subsidiary.

THE freeway snaking its way down from Joondalup to Perth is not the longest haul on earth, at least not as far as life-changing journeys go.

WAS the Federal Govern-ment's rejection of the Royal/ Dutch Shell takeover bid for Woodside Petroleum deft political instinct or answering the parochial calls of the media?

WOODSIDE Petroleum may have slipped through Royal Dutch-Shell's fingertips but arguably it had already lost one of the key reasons for its takeover bid — shutting out a rival technology from Asia.

PERHAPS it was inevitable, but it is unacceptable that the takeover bid for Woodside has been turned into a political football.

THE thrust and parry of the attempt by Shell to acquire Woodside Petroleum has prompted some analysts to believe the Australian company is seeking to produce “a press release a day”, to dissuade its shareholders from defecting.

Shell has revised its merger proposal with WPL. The cleverly crafted offer is designed to get the revised merger proposal (RMP) in front of the WPL shareholders to force a vote (extraordinary general meeting will be held at the end of April).

THE long-awaited recovery of investment in WA's resource sector has been foreshadowed by Woodside Energy's disclosure that design engineering work for its proposed $2.6 billion North West Shelf Train 4 project will be sourced from Perth rather than overs

Alinta PO releasedPrivate investors will have the opportunity to buy some of the 55 per cent of WA gas utility AlintaGas until October 6.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Ltd and its joint venture partner British Borneo have completed a large 3D seismic survey over portions of tenements held by Hardman Resources NL offshore Mauritania, West Africa.Initial data processing has now been completed and ...

IT WAS in 1626 that Peter Minuit, the director general of New Netherland province, bought the island of Manhattan from the local Indians for trinkets and cloth valued at 60 guilders.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Ltd plans to fast track development of its wholly-owned Enfield oil field in permit WA-271-P on the North West Shelf.

Hard decisions lie ahead for the fat cat executives at Woodside Petroleum. Their cosy world has been turned upside down by a proposed merger/takeover from the Royal Dutch/Shell group.

INCREASED revenue and profits last year have allowed Woodside Petroleum Limited to expand its influence and exploration acreage in the hydrocarbon fields, both locally and internationally.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Limited has paid US$25.6 million for entry into hydrocarbon prospective, deep water exploration acreage in the Gulf of Mexico.

Contractors to Woodside Petroleum, and that includes about every second business in WA, may be in for a rough time as the big oil and gas producer launches headlong into its cost cutting crusade.

PERTH-based hydrocarbon major Woodside Energy Limited has continued its drive to expand production and take advantage of surging oil prices.