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industry news
Dividend delights dazzle Woodside shareholders
Government geoscience enters new phase in the search for oil and gas
TAG Oil sees Bakken-like prospects in NZ play
Chevron steps into Argentina shale with US$1.5 B investment
Canadian Court rules for Chevron in US$19 B lawsuit
ION GX Technology opens new processing centre in Australia
Welcome to the long distance LNG future
Statoil looks to farm in to BP Bight permits
APPEA slams cash bidding system for offshore exploration acreage
Santos stakes its territory
Tauton well update
Minister looks forward to LNG 18
Will Aus take its cue from Chevron and Shell ceasefire with Greens?
Chevron’s E&P excellence results in takeover of Shell’s No. 2 spot
UK shale industry: the fracking debate commences
 | Woodside Chief Executive Peter Coleman has fast surfaced as the darling of the company's shareholders, who overwhelmingly approved the Australian oil and gas producer's remuneration .. read full article |
Marita Bradshaw, Geoscience Australia
 | From colonial times, government geoscience has played a key role in revealing the resource endowment of Australia, even when geology itself was a young science. Today that work .. read full article |
 | Canadian E+P company TAG Oil has a spring in its step after drilling its 100% controlled Ngapaeruru-1 exploration well in New Zealand and encountering elevated mud gas readings .. read full article |
 | Chevron has become the first supermajor to step into shale oil plays in Argentina where state owned energy company YPF has announced that a US$1.5 B deal will be signed in July .. read full article |
Attempts by Ecuadorian villagers to get a Canadian court to enforce a US$19 B judgement against Chevron was dismissed in the Ontario Superior Court in a ruling hailed by the global .. read full article |
 | Leading geophysical services provider ION GX Technology is expanding into the Australian and Asia-Pacific market and opening a new regional seismic processing facility in Perth. .. read full article |
 | The long-distance LNG revolution continues with UPS, the world's largest package delivery company, announcing plans to purchase 700 LNG vehicles as well as building four refuelling .. read full article |
Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil has gained access to what Pal Haremo, senior VP for Global new ventures in Exploration said is a vast, underexplored area with high-impact potential, .. read full article |
Australian oil and gas industry lobby group APPEA has rallied against Labor government announcements to introduce a cash bidding system for the allocation of offshore petroleum .. read full article |
 | The Northern Territory has added another investment feather to its resource cap with news that Santos, Australia's second largest oil and gas producer, will spend $100 MM on a drilling .. read full article |
Apache has encountered technical difficulties at the Tauton offshore oilfield 40 km north-northeast of Onslow in the Carnarvon Basin, but will attempt a second sidetrack well .. read full article |
 | Western Australia's brand new Minister for Mines and Petroleum, Bill Marmion, could hardly have asked for more appropriate offices to survey the kingdom of one of the greatest resource .. read full article |
 | As the Australian oil and gas industry ponders the issue of 'what now?' in the post-mortem of Woodside's ill-fated plans to commercialise Browse Basin gas onshore at James Price .. read full article |
 | Chevron's Midas touch for discovering gas off northwest Australia continues unabated with the global supermajor announcing another successful strike at the Exmouth Plateau in the .. read full article |
The USA's growing shale gas production has resulted in a dramatic reduction in energy prices and helped revitalise the manufacturing industry, but the UK's Energy and Climate Change .. read full article |
