A Woodside-led cohort of oil and gas majors has been granted a permit to evaluate the potential of turning a depleted gas field off the coast of Dampier into a carbon capture and storage project .
Woodside Energy boss Meg O'Neill says upheavals in global energy markets during the past six months have shone a spotlight on the role of gas, as the business lifts profits to $US1.8 billion.
Wesfarmers boss Rob Scott and FMG founder Andrew Forrest are likely to be the only Perth-based business leaders at next week's jobs summit in Canberra, with Meg O'Neill a conspicuous absentee.
Fresh from completing Woodside Energy's merger with BHP's petroleum business, Meg O'Neill says the world is facing its biggest energy crisis in 50 years.
A mega-merger between Woodside Petroleum and BHP's oil and gas business has received overwhelming shareholder approval at an AGM in Perth this afternoon.
Red Hill has been selected as the site for Woodside Petroleum's first plant turning carbon emissions into ethanol after a deal with the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council.
Woodside's sales revenues were down 17 per cent for the first quarter of 2022 as the Russia-Ukraine conflict stoked LNG prices but hampered trading activity.
Woodside Petroleum has been offered a pipeline licence, and received approval for its field development plan, for the Scarborough to Pluto Train 2 LNG project.
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Woodside Petroleum's solar thermal commercial demonstration plant in California is moving forward, while it has agreed with partner Heliogen to market the technology in Australia.
Woodside hopes to make ethanol from carbon emissions through a deal with two US businesses, while BP recently signed Honeywell for green diesel technology at the old Kwinana refinery site.
Woodside's new leadership team will be split across Perth and Houston and include five BHP executives, in line with the merged entity's elevated global profile.
Woodside has signed with Asian partners to develop a long-term supply chain of sustainable hydrogen from Western Australia to Singapore and potentially Japan.
Oil and gas supplier Woodside will invest $US5 billion ($7 billion) in low carbon energy by 2030 while still benefitting from its recently-announced merger with BHP's petroleum business.
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.
Woodside Petroleum's chief financial officer Sherry Duhe is leaving the company after four years to take up the same position with fellow ASX-lister, Newcrest Mining.
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.
A review of Woodside's oil and gas reserves led to a 10 per cent trim on its proven and probable resource volumes but has in turn increased solely proven reserves by the same amount.
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.
Procurement work for Woodside Petroleum's Pluto LNG Train 2 has started, ahead of a final investment decision within weeks, as the company posted a 19 per cent lift in sales.
There are very few chief executives who get to announce a company defining multi-billion deal on their first day in the job. That's what Meg O'Neill did last week.
Woodside Petroleum and BHP have confirmed today they are in discussions about a potential merger deal involving BHP's entire petroleum business. Details could be announced as soon as this week.
Woodside Petroleum's Scarborough gas project will now cost $US12 billion, about $US600 million more than first expected, after the company sharpened its plans.
A new carbon target for Woodside's Pluto LNG has been approved; Chevron has invested in solar; and six carbon capture projects have been granted $50 million.
