Meg O'Neill

Woodside Energy chief executive Meg O’Neill has backed in the company’s approach to new energy at a lunch event today, days after the company’s $US2.35 billion Texas ammonia buy.

Woodside Energy has dodged a potential challenge to its environmental approvals at the Scarborough gas project, as it scales up towards a 2026 production date.

Woodside Energy’s underlying net profit slipped 14 per cent in the first half of 2024 to $2.36 billion, as lower prices for its oil and gas products weighed heavily.

The number of women running ASX300 companies has stagnated in the past year with a survey also showing multiple WA companies have no women in their executive leadership group.

Japanese power giant JERA has committed to buy liquefied natural gas from Woodside over a decade, beginning in April 2026.

Senior Woodside Energy management officials are making their way to the Beaumont clean ammonia site in Texas, after confirming a construction contractor employee had been killed.

Woodside Energy says it will seek to link up with Japanese companies looking to develop methane detection and quantification technology, under a non-binding deal struck this week.

Oil and gas major Woodside Energy has completed its $1.3 billion acquisition of the Driftwood LNG development on the US Gulf Coast.

Woodside Energy says it is in talks with Western Australian industrial users to supply additional gas into the local market through to 2027, off a strong performance in the September quarter.

Woodside has inked an early-stage deal to supply liquid hydrogen from its proposed facilities, including H2Perth, to a Singaporean company to power its data centres.

Business Council of Australia has announced Woodside chief executive Meg O'Neill as the newest addition to its board, joining Wesfarmers managing director and chief Rob Scott.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Chris Paull, Jo Monery, David Andrew, Charmaine Lamprecht, Nicola Spicer, Meg O'Neill, Tanya Rybarczyk and Bep Uink.

Economic challenges have dominated discussion in a hydrogen sector where driving ideology and market need are yet to align.

Shareholder returns were not always reflected in the scale and growth of public-listed executive pay packets last financial year.

Woodside has revised its engineering, procurement and construction contract with Bechtel to develop the first three trains at its Louisiana LNG project in the United States.

Woodside Energy’s partnership with the Fremantle Dockers has been extended until the end of 2027, building on a 15-year relationship between the two organisations.

Woodside’s $50 million commitment under the WA government’s Resources Community Investment Initiative will go towards upgrades of Roebourne high school and the Perth Concert Hall.

Woodside Energy delivered record production last year and remains on track to deliver gas from Scarborough next year, but uncertainty clouds two US-based energy projects.

Woodside Energy boss Meg O’Neill has warned the company’s Australian roots are not a guarantee of future domestic investment, in a speech to the Melbourne Mining Club today.

Activists who tried to graffiti Woodside Energy boss Meg O’Neill's house, in protest of the Burrup Hub development, have avoided jail but were fined a total of $6,500.

Woodside Energy has warned of flow on effects from the battle for approvals extending the life of its North West Shelf plant, after regulators pushed out the deadline for a decision.

The fourth activist involved in the protest outside Woodside Energy boss Meg O’Neill’s home has avoided jail but has been fined thousands of dollars.

Woodside Energy boss Meg O’Neill issued a warning to regulators holding up progress on the North West Shelf joint venture, while handing down a $5.6 billion full-year net profit.

Some of Australia’s largest gas producers have warned they may invest elsewhere in light of ongoing delays in project approvals and social licence challenges.

Further delays to extend the life of the North West Shelf project off WA’s coast have been pinned on the looming federal election, with Woodside labelling the move “extremely disappointing”.

Woodside Energy has taken another small step toward simplifying its portfolio by selling its mature Greater Angostura assets in Trinidad and Tobago for $206 million.

The future of one of Woodside's US assets remained uncertain, with boss Meg O’Neill saying the company continues to review the project amid challenges in attracting customers.

Woodside Energy will sell a 40 per cent stake in its Louisiana LNG infrastructure in a $US5.7 billion ($9.3 billion) deal with investment firm Stonepeak, as it looks to enter US production.

Roger Cook’s name has been a regular feature on the annual list of Western Australia’s most influential business and political players published by Business News.

Woodside’s new supply agreements with Uniper are set to bolster its stake in the global gas market.

Woodside Energy has labelled recent political rhetoric “encouraging” as it progresses a plan to tie a field back through its North West Shelf plant.

Woodside Energy has taken a $27 billion final investment decision on its Louisiana LNG project in the United States, in a move the company says will make it a global LNG powerhouse.

The early moments of Woodside Energy’s AGM have been marred by protests, with activists interrupting chief executive Meg O’Neill several times in its opening 20 minutes.

Woodside Energy chair Richard Goyder has told shareholders that actions are more significant than words when it comes to the Trump Administration, at the company’s AGM.

The high-profile head of Woodside Energy’s sustainability committee has survived a push by super funds HESTA and Aware to oust her – a move which angered chair Richard Goyder.

Woodside Energy will look to sell part of its Louisiana LNG project to Aramco, a move announced the same day as a near trillion-dollar deal between the US and Saudi governments.

The environment minister of the small Pacific nation of Tuvalu has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese not to approve Woodside Energy’s North West Shelf extension request.

Simon Trott, Meg O'Neill, Nigel Satterley, and Vikas Rambal were among those invited by WA Premier Roger Cook to share their ideas to guide the state through Donald Trump's tariff policy.

The state’s ability to decarbonise hinges on the development of power transmission networks.

Premier Roger Cook and Treasurer Rita Saffioti have been named the state’s most powerful people, edging out mining magnates Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest in the 2025 Power 500.