Wed, July 01, 2009
The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) has welcomed an interim report showing that the nation’s upstream oil and gas industry regulation still requires significant improvement.
APPEA said that the Australian Government’s Interim Report on the Operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act reinforced a recent Productivity Commission report that the industry was “groaning under the dead weight of regulatory inefficiency”.
APPEA Chief Executive Belinda Robinson said that this was the second report in three months to find that “regulatory inefficiencies are costing the Australian economy without any policy benefit”.
The interim report found there is “no doubt that there is duplication in the regulation of upstream petroleum related activities insofar as they relate to management of impacts on the environment. There is…
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Mon, June 29, 2009
Full production capacity has been restored at the Varanus Island facility, located offshore Western Australia.
Mon, June 22, 2009
The PNG LNG Project joint venture participants have reached agreements with three major LNG buyers in the Asian region for sales of approximately 4.3 million tonnes per annum (MMt/a) of LNG.
Fri, June 19, 2009
Woodside Petroleum’s Pluto Gas Project is currently more than 65 per cent completed, chief executive officer Don Voelte has said.
Tue, June 16, 2009
Epic Energy and Origin Energy have entered into a conditional gas transportation agreement, which will underpin the proposed expansion of Epic’s 935 km South West Queensland Pipeline (SWQP) and QSN Link from Wallumbilla to Moomba.
Wed, June 10, 2009
ERM Power is looking for a partner to gain 50 per cent of its interest in permit EP 389, located onshore in the Perth Basin, Western Australia.
