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Carbon pricing, new LNG supplies from US shale gas, and coal demand are all on BP's radar as the world moves towards decarbonisation.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, oil-and-gas, perth-6000
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Santos improves its loss to $1.4 billion, while Virgin Australia dives back into the red.
Topics: company-news, air-transport, oil-and-gas, australia, sa
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government declares an expanded "investigation zone" after the discovery of flammable levels of hydrogen in soil on the western Darling Downs.
Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, environment, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, qld
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| UpdatedA New South Wales abattoir owner calls on Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg to "keep some gas for Australians" as the east-coast braces for a huge surge in prices.
Topics: oil-and-gas, industry, small-business, australia, cowra-2794
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Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, telecommunications, wireless-communication, information-and-communication, mining-industry
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Origin Energy finally bites the bullet and wipes more than $1 billion off the value of its stake in the $25 billion APLNG gas export project in Queensland.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, oil-and-gas, industry, qld, australia
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| UpdatedGas-contaminated soil has been detected 25 kilometres further south of an existing exclusion zone around a controversial Western Downs gas project, Queensland's Environment Department says.
Topics: land-pollution, activism-and-lobbying, oil-and-gas, public-sector, chinchilla-4413, qld, australia, toowoomba-4350
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| UpdatedThree points in the Indian Ocean account for 80 per cent of the world's seaborne oil trade and there are increasing concerns about potential militarisation in the area.
Topics: trade, oil-and-gas, asia, china
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| UpdatedAn Environment Department investigation confirms the contamination near Linc Energy's underground coal gasification plant is much more widespread than previously thought.
Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, environment, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, qld
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| UpdatedState and Federal ministers are asked to consider changing legislations after Federal Court ruling on Indigenous Land Agreements questions mining, gas, ports, infrastructure and national park legality.
Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, coal, rural, rail-transport, sea-transport, national-parks, native-title, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, mining-industry, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe US Army says it will allow the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, clearing the way for completion of the disputed four-state project.
Topics: environmental-policy, environment, water-pollution, oil-and-gas, united-states
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Chair of the scientific inquiry into fracking Justice Rachel Pepper says the final report and its recommendations will be presented to the Northern Territory Government "later this year".
Topics: rural, oil-and-gas, community-and-society, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedThe South Australian Liberal Party finds itself at odds with the Federal Government over unconventional gas extraction, after federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg says he would like to see "all moratoriums" lifted during a visit to the state.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, oil-and-gas, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedAfter a couple of years of falling earnings, corporate Australia looks set to finally deliver some growth in the February results season.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, markets, consumer-finance, international-financial-institutions, currency, oil-and-gas, gold, trade, mining-industry, industry, australia
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| UpdatedLandowners from Papua New Guinea's gas fields have offered the government a cut price deal to purchase equity in the country's liquefied natural gas project.
Topics: oil-and-gas, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedAbout 300 workers lose their job at Darwin's Inpex LNG plant after a stoush between contractors following construction delays and cost blowouts.
Topics: oil-and-gas, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA week of conciliation talks ends in East Timor dropping its spying case against Australia as part of negotiations to resolve the long-running dispute over permanent maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea.
Topics: world-politics, oil-and-gas, courts-and-trials, foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, australia, east-timor, asia
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Politics is the new black for big investors, with economics as a driver of market sentiment becoming somewhat passé.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, us-elections, trade, markets, currency, oil-and-gas, industry, gold, australia, united-states, china
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Energy bills could be about to rise significantly over the next few years, new research shows.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, alternative-energy, oil-and-gas, industry, australia
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China is set to release key data this week as US President-elect Donald Trump's looming inauguration prompts global markets to pause to ponder a number of "what ifs" associated with the political transition in the world's most powerful economy.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, oil-and-gas, industry, banking, mining-industry, australia, china, united-states
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| UpdatedAn increase in Canberra's petrol prices, which has seen costs jump by almost 20 cents per litre since Christmas, is labelled "inexplicable" by the NRMA.
Topics: oil-and-gas, road-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A push by East Timor to only develop the Greater Sunrise gas project with an onshore plant likely means it will not go ahead for decades, analysts says.
Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, mining-industry, perth-6000
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Peter Strachan, author StockAnalysis; Saul Kavonic, Wood Mackenzie, outline why processing gas from Greater Sunrise onshore in East Timor isn't economically feasible, citing Darwin a better destination if project ever to go ahead.
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Kerrie-Anne Shanks, energy analyst, Wood Makenzie; David Blowers, energy specialist, Grattan Institute. Global LNG glut to ease within a few years while local Australian gas prices continue to climb remain high.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, oil-and-gas, perth-6000
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Woodside Petroleum says its Greater Sunrise gas field in the Timor Sea could jump to "the front of the queue" for development, if Australia and East Timor can agree on maritime boundaries in the next year or so.
Topics: oil-and-gas, company-news, international-law, world-politics, australia, east-timor