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Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG project near Onslow.

Mergers and AcquisitionsCommentsPremiumTasmea buys second company in a month with JPS deal

Set up in only 2018 after its founders worked on Chevron’s Wheatstone project in WA’s Pilbara, JPS provides maintenance and shutdown services for LNG clients including Shell, INPEX and Woodside.

Sean Smith

The precipitation facility at Alcoa’s Wagerup Alumina Refinery. NewsWire/Philip Gostelow

EnergyCommentsPremiumAlcoa and Woodside ink gas deal to 2030

Woodside Energy has locked in a gas deal with manufacturer Alcoa until the end of the decade as the sector remains under hot scrutiny over local supply.

Matt Mckenzie

Qatari officials say a "technical accident" caused a blast amid a restart at a gas supply facility. (AP PHOTO)

EnergyCommentsPremiumBlast during restart at giant Qatar LNG site killed 13

Qatari authorities say 13 people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion at the Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas complex.

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Scarborough floating production unit will be among the facilities impacted.

EnergyCommentsPremiumAnother union fight cooking at Woodside’s offshore platforms

Support staff working at Woodside-operated oil and gas platforms off WA’s coast are considering industrial action in the latest workplace dispute to hit the resources sector.

Matt Mckenzie

Roger Cook wants a petrol refinery built in WA.

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Cook launches bold bid to bring petrol refinery to WA

Roger Cook will push Canberra to build Australia’s next petrol refinery in WA, saying the west was the obvious place to build the facility.

Joe Spagnolo

Ships are turning on their transponders and preparing to transit the reopened Strait of Hormuz. (AP PHOTO)

EnergyCommentsPremiumFirst tankers cross Strait of Hormuz after Iran deal

Three ships have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz following a US-Iran deal to end their war, but Israeli strikes stir doubt about peace efforts in Lebanon.

Maya Gebeily, Rami Ayyub and Jonathan Saul

Albany customers face the switch to bottled gas.

Albany switch-offPremiumBunbury-Albany gas pipeline would have been ‘great benefit’

Albany’s gas supply has been an outlier for ATCO since the company purchased the network in 2011, according to Russell Godsall, its executive general manager for gas operations in Australia.

Claire Middleton

INPEX'S Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

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Inpex agrees union pay deal after strike ‘costs $200m’

Inpex has reached a pay deal with unions to end strikes at the Ichthys gas export plant that cost the Japanese company as much as $200 million.

Matt Mckenzie

Westpac warns Australian diesel could top $3 a litre despite a US-Iran ceasefire. NewsWire / Flavio Brancaleone

BusinessCommentsPremiumDire $3/L fuel prediction as Iran-US peace deal looms

A fragile US-Iran peace deal stands between Australian households and $3/L diesel, record inflation and several quarters of negative economic growth, Westpac warns.

Blair Jackson

Woodside greenlit the Louisiana LNG project shortly before Sarah Bairstow joined the company in early May.

EnergyCommentsPremiumTop executive’s shock departure rocks Woodside

The top executive at a massive $24.8b Woodside Energy LNG project has departed suddenly, just over a year after she was hired.

Ruth Liao

STRAIT OF HORMUZ, IRAN - MAY 16: Ships remain anchored on May 16, 2026 in the Strait of Hormuz near Larak Island, Iran. Negotiations between the U.S. and Iran over opening this critical waterway have largely stalled as the countries have rejected each other's proposals to end the war that began when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

EnergyVideoCommentsPremiumOil holds falls as traders seek clarity on Hormuz reopening

Oil held its biggest drop in more than two weeks as traders, shippers and producers awaited details of a US-Iran deal that’s intended to pave the way for the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Rong Wei Neo and Gabriel Levin

Inpex's Ichthys LNG offshore facilities.

Oil & GasCommentsPremiumWorkplace umpire rejects move by Inpex to stop LNG strike

The Fair Work Commission has rejected an application by Inpex to halt strike action at the gas giant’s Ichthys LNG operations in the Northern Territory.

Cheyanne Enciso

Woodside boss Liz Westcott

Oil & GasCommentsPremiumWoodside boosts Browse stake by vetoing Inpex deal

Woodside Energy will pay at least $US225 million ($320m) to block Japan’s Inpex from buying into the $30 billion Browse gas project off WA’s north-west coast.

Adrian Rauso and Rebecca Le May

Inpex's Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

Oil & GasCommentsPremiumStrikes delay LNG deliveries, ‘threaten’ energy relationship

Industrial action at Inpex’s Ichthys project has delayed energy cargoes to key Asian partners, as the company seeks urgent orders to halt the strikes.

Ryan Johnson

A fuel excise cut aimed at easing the pressure of the oil crisis is due to expire on June 30.

EnergyCommentsPremiumMotorists brace for higher prices as fuel tax cut runs dry

Australia is unlikely to extend the temporary halving of the fuel excise, as conflict in the Middle East breaks out ending the fragile ceasefire.

Tess Ikonomou

INPEX's Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

Oil & GasCommentsPremium‘Significant disruption’: Inpex seeks orders to stop strikes

Inpex seeks to halt escalating LNG strikes amid warnings of energy supply disruption.

Ryan Johnson

Woodside wants to build the H2Perth project in the Rockingham industrial area.

HydrogenCommentsPremiumWoodside pivots on H2Perth in hopes of starting work in 2027

Woodside Energy has signalled construction of a $1 billion hydrogen plant in Rockingham could start as soon as next year but the company has axed green power in favour of natural gas.

Matt Mckenzie

Renewable energy such as solar and wind power is close to surpassing gas in major nations. (Michael Currie/AAP PHOTOS)

Oil & GasPremiumRunning low on gas: more nations drive an energy change

Renewable electricity sources such as solar and wind are gaining on gas for a share of the worldwide energy market.

Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Inpex’s'S Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

EnergyCommentsPremiumLNG workers threaten to ramp up strike action

Workers at Inpex’s Ichthys LNG export plant are planning to increase strike action to eight hours a day and implement work bans from Thursday, after talks between union members and the company stalled.

Sing Yee Ong

Monadelphous managing director Zoran Bebic said the award will support Australia’s energy transition. 

ContractingCommentsPremiumMonadelphous plugs into $380m east coast power plant

Monadelphous has picked up a $380 million contract to build a power plant in Queensland as it taps into more energy transition opportunities. 

Daniel Newell

Oil

EnergyCommentsPremiumPlunging global supplies threaten to push oil even higher

Motorists face a new round of punishing price increases for fuel and other products as oil and gas inventories plunge to historic lows around the world because of the war in Iran.

Evan Halper

Balaji Krishnamurthy was the keynote speaker at The West Australian Leadership Matters breakfast at Crown Grand Ballroom.

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Federal gas plan ‘confusing and frustrating’: Chevron boss

Chevron’s American head office is ‘confused and frustrated’ about a proposed national gas reservation scheme amid uncertainty about the impact on WA’s longstanding policy.

Matt Mckenzie

Inpex's Ichthys LNG offshore facilities

EnergyCommentsPremiumWorkers to down tools at WA gas hubs amid pay feud

The union said workers would strike for four hours on Tuesday at the gas export operation stretching from off the Kimberley coast to Darwin.

Matt Mckenzie

Meg O'Neill, chief executive of BP.

Oil & GasPremiumBP sells down stake in Browse gas project

Meg O’Neill’s BP has trimmed down its stake in the $30 billion Woodside-operated Browse gas project that remains in development limbo.

Adrian Rauso