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Gas
‘Upfront, credible and honest’: Woodside boss spruiks climate plan ahead of crucial AGM
Meg O’Neill says the energy major is working to reduce its emissions but warns it’s not going to be easy or cheap.
- by Peter Milne
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Goyder appeals to Woodside shareholders to back climate plan
Woodside chair Richard Goyder has written a last-minute letter to investors ahead of a vote next week on his own position and the company’s plans for climate change.
- by Peter Milne and Nick Toscano
Opinion
Gas
WA’s looming domestic gas shortage: How a ‘good faith’ argument left WA short
A shortfall in gas from exporters could shut WA businesses and deter new investment and Woodside’s Pluto project is the biggest problem.
- by Peter Milne
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Earnings season
Woodside climate goals face next investor test
Australia’s largest oil and gas producer has posted a steep fall in full-year profit as fossil fuel prices came off historic highs.
- by Nick Toscano
Woodside strikes $2.1b deal with Japan’s biggest LNG buyer
Japan’s biggest LNG importer is buying 15.1 per cent of Woodside’s giant Scarborough gas field off Western Australia.
- by Nick Toscano
Woodside begins quest for compensation from activists who set off smoke bomb at Perth office
Woodside wants to compel three Disrupt Burrup Hub protestors charged over a 2023 smoke bomb incident at its headquarters to reveal details of any others involved as it chases compensation for the cost of an evacuation of the building.
- by Peter Milne
Woodside shelves $80b merger with rival Santos
The oil and gas giant says it has ended discussions with its smaller rival over a proposed tie-up of the two companies.
- by Simon Johanson
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Gas
Woodside chief says merger with Santos is ‘no certainty’
Chief executive Meg O’Neill has dampened expectations of a multibillion-dollar merger with rival Santos ahead of a battle to convince investors to back its climate plans.
- by Peter Milne
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest steps up fight against big oil and gas
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has escalated his war against oil and gas producers, and Woodside in particular, taking to a helicopter off the remote WA coast to lambast its $18 billion Scarborough gas export project as a “carbon dioxide bomb”.
- by Peter Milne
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Gas
Woodside and Santos in merger talks to form fossil fuel giant
Australia’s two largest oil and gas companies are in talks to form a single $80 billion company focused on gas exports.
- by Peter Milne
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Mining
WA loses key cog in overloaded resource project approval system
A senior bureaucrat will be shifted to temporarily plug a gap in WA’s system for approving new projects for the state’s $246 billion a year resource sector.
- by Peter Milne