Australia LNG news

Woodside and Chevron have agreed to an asset swap under which Woodside will acquire Chevron’s interest in the North West Shelf project, the NWS Oil project, and the Angel carbon capture and storage project, and transfer all of its interest in both the Wheatstone and Julimar-Brunello projects to Chevron.

Squadron Energy has completed the construction of Australia’s first LNG import terminal, the Port Kembla Energy Terminal.

Woodside and the North West Shelf joint venture welcome the Western Australian government’s decision to provide environmental approval for the North West Shelf project extension.

Woodside has signed a revised lump sum turnkey EPC contract with Bechtel for the development of the three train 16.5 million tpy foundation development of Louisiana LNG.

Alevro, a joint venture between Monadelphous and Fagioli has used an Enerpac EVO System for the synchronous jack-down of three 3600T LNG compressors at the Pluto LNG onshore facility near Karratha in Western Australia.

Santos has announced completion of the sale of a 2.6% interest in PNG LNG to Kumul Petroleum Holdings Ltd.

Norton Rose Fulbright has advised ABN AMRO and National Australia Bank on their arrangement of acquisition financing for Celsius Shipping and Basalt Infrastructure Partners to acquire two LNG carriers.

Woodside has announced the successful completion of the installation of the Scarborough Energy Project trunkline.

Santos has announced that the Darwin LNG joint venture has achieved financial close of new syndicated bank loan facilities totalling US$800 million.

Woodside and the Japan Organisation for Metals and Energy Security have signed a memorandum of understanding centred on their joint interest in methane emissions management.