Japanese banks have been investing heavily in LNG projects, lending more than $US5 billion in 2014.

Australia’s “looming gas shortage” – the basis for calls to deregulate coal seam gas – may not be real after all. But gas prices are still set to rise, and that’s an area where coal seam gas could help.

Santos says its $US18.5 billion Gladstone LNG project will produce first gas around the end of the third quarter this year.

WDS Limited has been awarded the Wilton Offtake and Metering Facility Upgrade Contract by Jemena in NSW.

​The contribution to Australia’s economy by maths and science – nearly $300 billion including flow-on benefits – has been measured for the first time.

ABB has been contracted to supply equipment to two HVDC converter stations linking the Johan Sverdrup offshore field with the onshore grid.

Woodside has temporarily halted production at Pluto LNG plant.

Glencore will acquire nearly half of Russian oil company Russneft.

GE has opened a new oil and gas facility in WA to support subsea projects.

A shareholder of oil producer Tap Oil has ruffled a few feathers by seeking to appoint a board of his own choosing.

Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) has been selected to handle the critical project management for an offshore oil and gas rig.

Valmec has won a services contract for APLNG’s Talinga Gas Processing facility.

Oil and gas giant Woodside will issue US$1 billion worth of corporate bonds into the US bond market.

AGL has announced a comprehensive review of the company’s upstream gas business just weeks after toxic chemicals were detected at its Waukivory project.

Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG project hit a milestone with the completion of a linking pipeline between its processing plant and Dampier to Bunbury pipeline.

Australia Pacific LNG’s first gas from its CSG fields in the Surat Basin has reached Curtis Island.

Lloyd’s Register’s has released new Guidance Notes for the Calculation of Probabilistic Explosion Loads in oil and gas.

WorleyParsons has won an engineering and design contract for the Sarita Bay LNG project.