natural gas

Senex will provide New Century Resources seven petajoules (PJ) of natural gas over the next three years to support the mining company’s zinc production.

Rio Tinto has secured a gas supply agreement with Santos, who will supply 15 petajoules of natural gas to the miner from late 2021.

Newcrest Mining has struck a domestic gas sale agreement with Chevron that would go until July 2023.

Global coal consumption and production rose in 2018, reflecting positive results for the Australian coal industry according to new data released by BP in its 2019 statistical review of world energy.

Cooper Energy is continuing to grow its gas contract portfolio with the announcement of a new supply agreement with AGL Energy.

Senex Energy has achieved mechanical completion and initiated commissioning of the Roma North natural gas processing facility in the western Surat Basin, Queensland.

Australian LNG export revenue last year has risen 67.8 per cent to $43.3 billion on 2017, making LNG the country’s third largest export in 2018 after coal and iron ore, energy advisory firm EnergyQuest Australia reported.

Shell’s QGC onshore gas venture in Queensland has announced a significant expansion that will secure up to 350 jobs over the next two years.

Mount Isa Mayor Joyce McCulloch believes the prohibitive costs of northern Australia’s ‘infrastructure trifecta’ of energy, transport and water requires revision to avoid turning away investment from the region.

Dacian Gold has chosen to use a natural gas and a gas-fired power station to generate electricity at its Mount Morgans gold project in Western Australia.

The energy sector is dealing with a complex mix of relationships between consumer trends, global commodity markets, and state, federal and industry regulation.

QGC has announced a two year $1.7billion dollar joint venture development with China National Offshore Oil Corporation and Tokyo Gas on its Charlie natural gas tenements in the Surat Basin

Australia has been named as one of the key areas that will bear the brunt of 6000-7000 job losses from Chevron, as its two large liquefied natural gas projects move into the late phases of construction

​The Santos GLNG plant on Curtis Island has achieved another key milestone, with all modules for the first processing train now installed.

UGL has won a $740 million contract for the structural, mechanical, and piping construction on the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin.

The NSW government has been recommended to remove the term “coal seam gas” and its acronym CSG from official documents in the state and perhaps across Australia.

Gary Gray, the recently-appointed federal minister for resources, has commented that the development of the shale gas industry in Australia could lead to a massive boost for Australian industry.

Japan’s recent successful extraction of methane hydrate, known as “fire ice”, from its seabed could secure the country’s future gas supply.

In a bid to improve productivity, staff working on Chevron’s $US52 billion Gorgon natural gas project have been banned from using chairs and told not to sit down during their shift.