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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commissionhas asked operators of six liquefied natural gas facilities in Western Australia and the Northern Territory to publicly disclose maintenance schedule information they share with each other.

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Tokyo-based Inpex has achieved a significant milestone, with the first shipment of LNG departing the company’s $46 billion Ichthys project at its onshore plant in Darwin.

ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: Foreign investment, free trade and a skilled workforce have helped WA tap its enormous oil and gas reserves, to the benefit of the entire country. This article is part of a special series to mark Business News' 25-year anniversary.

Japanese outfit Inpex today officially opened the onshore LNG processing facilities at its $46 billion Ichthys project in Darwin.

The cost of building the Ichthys LNG project has blown out again, with French group Total saying it has increased by $US5 billion to $US45 billion, but project operator Inpex is disputing the extent of the increase.

Woodside Petroleum’s Browse and Scarborough LNG developments are the biggest of $95 billion of major projects under way or likely in Western Australia, with 96 ongoing and a further 68 probable.

The national petroleum industry regulator has responded to media reports that Inpex’s Icthys LNG operation is unsafe, saying it gave the all clear for gas to flow at the $US45 billion ($62 billion) facility.

Australia exported 75.1 million tonnes of LNG in the 2019 financial year, 21.2 per cent higher than the previous fiscal year prior, and is expected to become the largest LNG producer in the world this financial year.

The federal government has announced a $50 million emergency fund to address the loss of wildlife during the nation’s bushfire season, as more Australian businesses have pledged millions in combined donations.

SPECIAL REPORT: Decisions are expected on three major oil and gas projects worth $24 billion combined in 2020, with more to follow.

People already waiting at the Western Australian border will be allowed into the state after the closure deadline, as the premier flagged banning regional travel and shutting down beaches.

Kogas wrote down its 10 per cent stake in Prelude FLNG by $US361 million last year, as it reported a $US 304 million loss.

Oil and gas producer Inpex has joined other big companies in the resources sector by permanently shifting east coast fly-in, fly-out workers to Western Australia.

Marine and subsea services provider MMA Offshore has secured contracts with the Department of Defence and Japan’s Inpex.

Shares in marine and subsea services provider MMA Offshore have risen more than 8 per cent following the company’s announcement of a $68 million contract extension with Japan's Inpex.

Oil and gas company Inpex has failed in its bid to have separate trials over issues arising from the construction of $US45 billion Ichthys LNG plant project.

Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has extended its relationship with oil and gas company Inpex after securing a $350 million contract.

The court has found a request for Inpex to produce a portion of the more than 19 million documents relevant to $US45 billion Ichthys LNG plant project to be too burdensome.

Monadelphous will pocket an additional $75 million per annum for work on Inpex's Ichthys LNG operations, adding to its long-term agreement with oil and gas player.

GR Engineering Services has won a three-year contract valued at $28 million for work on Inpex’s Ichthys liquefied natural gas onshore and offshore facilities.

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Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy was the nation’s largest political donor last financial year, while a private WA company donated more than $1 million to the group behind the Voice to Parliament referendum’s No campaign.

The 10 per cent owner of the Shell-operated Prelude floating LNG project reported a post-tax loss of $US3.4 million ($5.2 million) in 2023, despite gross profit of almost $US76 million.

Inpex senior vice president corporate Bill Townsend has opened up on how WA lost its bid to host the $60 billion Ichthys liquefied natural gas plant during a Business News event.

Mark Pownall and Jack McGinn discuss subsidy warnings; WA Labor’s next generation; Hancock’s Lynas stake, tailings clean up, Minderoo job cuts, Macmahon’s move for Decmil and Inpex’s Ichthys decision.

Proving the technology works is the first step in efforts to develop carbon capture projects.

The remote Djarindjin community is forging its independence with economic empowerment.

The fallout from BHP mothballing its Nickel West operations has had a ripple effect through engineering and haulage contractors, fellow miners, airlines and power suppliers.

Japan-headquartered LNG producer Inpex has put its weight behind a push for seafarers, amid fears of a significant looming shortfall as the available work pool plummets.

Gas exploration permits off the Western Australian coast have been granted to Chevron, Inpex, Melbana Energy and Woodside Energy, as part of long-awaited acreage release.

Gina Rinehart’s agricultural business, S Kidman & Co, has given the Liberal Party of WA a boost of almost $100,000 in the lead up to the 2025 state election.

Japanese LNG producer Inpex and Italy’s ENI will sell a 76 per cent stake in four undeveloped oil fields off Timor Leste to ASX-listed junior Finder Energy, for an up-front $US2 million fee.

Carbon capture and storage could generate more than $80 billion for the state economy over 20 years, according to new analysis funded by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA.

All the talk is on renewables, yet there are no major wind or solar projects currently under construction in WA’s South West.

The oil and gas major has signalled a move to Brookfield’s Nine The Esplanade from its current national headquarters at enex.

Hancock Prospecting spent $500,000 on donations to arms of the Liberal Party last financial year, in search of a government "more attuned to Australians".

WA Labor has pledged $5 million in an initial bid to boost the resilience of the state’s fragile supply chain network, if re-elected in March.

Senior Western Australia gas executives have warned a growing list of policy demands is souring the oil and gas industry’s appetite to invest in Australia.

Japanese energy giant Inpex’s vision of making the Bonaparte carbon capture project off Darwin a reality has progressed to its next stage, in a major boost for the technology.