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28 January 2012
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Slugcatcher on St Georges Terrace bragging rights


LUCK always plays a role in an oil or gas discovery, but when the score in an Australian two-company drill-off is 13 to nil then Slugcatcher reckons there has to be a lot more than luck involved.
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Slugcatcher on last week’s big story


Slugcatcher has that déjà vu feeling all over again


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PREMIUM FEATURES 
Santos closing the gap on Woodside


ANNUAL production reports released last week by Woodside and Santos reveal some striking differences in the trajectories of Australia’s two biggest independents.
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Dragon to ride on winds of change


Emerald in the rough


An Iranian standoff


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TECHNICAL & PRODUCT 
Portable lifesaver


MEDPOD – ER in the outback. It’s not a resurrection of George Clooney’s heroic life-saving character Dr Doug Ross but rather a portable unit designed to provide medical services, even life support, on remote construction sites.
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BabelFish solutions for Gorgon


Zenith heats up in Kuwait


OPINION: Project-based solutions help drive success


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Project Manager Industry, Science and Innovation, East Perth

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    LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS 

    Woodside looking for Browse partners?


    WOODSIDE Petroleum has reportedly begun a farm-out process for most of its 50% stake in the controversial $A30 billion Browse LNG project at James Price Point.
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    Allez Wheatstone for Technip


    Clough Curtain wins more PNG LNG work


    Sinopec to take 7.6MMtpa from APLNG


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    COAL SEAM GAS 

    Sapphire gets richer for Blue


    BLUE Energy has received a 92% 3P reserves upgrade for its Sapphire block as a direct result of the drilling of Sapphire-4, with Netherland, Sewell and Associates booking a 75 petajoules resource for the block.
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    SHALE GAS 

    IEA seeks regulatory input on shale


    THE International Energy Agency is seeking to influence shale gas drilling and will prepare regulatory recommendations to member countries as it seeks more uniform guidelines worldwide.
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    SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT 
    KS Endeavour sinks


    THE KS Endeavour shallow water rig off the coast of Nigeria is now completely underwater, with Chevron hitting back at reports that the gas rig was leaking oil.
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    Carbon hits bureaucratic wall


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    CAREERS & RECRUITMENT 
    Do the math, students told


    AUSTRALIAN students are being urged to redouble their focus in maths, science and engineering with the aim of tackling a “demographic time-bomb” facing the resources sector.
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    The world is not enough


    Jobs bonanza expected for NT


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    DRILLING 
    Rialto to raise Ivory Coast cash


    RIALTO Energy is planning a $A60 million two-tranche capital raising through the placement of about 200 million shares at 30c each to sophisticated and institutional investors to raise cash for drilling in the Ivory Coast and an AIM listing.
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    New rig is faster and cheaper: Baraka


    Sapphire gets richer for Blue


    Big year ahead for Oil Search


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    PROJECT PROFILES 
    Mitsubishi lands Prelude order


    MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries has won a compressor and power generation system order from the Technip Samsung Consortium for Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility off Australia’s northwest.
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    Aussies to lend a hand to Alcatel-Lucent


    Prelude pushes ahead


    Alcatel-Lucent wins Wheatstone work


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    PIPELINES 
    Expansion softens APA rejection


    APA Group has announced its second expansion of the Goldfields gas pipeline in a month – just days after its off-market takeover bid for Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund was formally rejected.
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    It’s all about the timing: Hastings


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    PRODUCTION 
    Drillsearch to seek for more sales, production


    DRILLSEARCH Energy has suffered a production hit of 12% quarter-on-quarter, primarily due to a lack of road access and pipeline capacity issues to the Chiton oil field in PEL 91.
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    Instability in PNG


    BUSINESSES in Papua New Guinea are waiting to see how a political standoff plays out after a retired colonel led 30 soldiers to storm barracks yesterday and reportedly placed defence force commander Francis Agwi under house arrest.
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    News wrap: Conoco, Hess and Chevron


    CONOCO confirms start on Browse drilling; Hess yet to make up mind on WA LNG; while Chevron's South American headache intensifies.
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    Santos closing the gap on Woodside
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    ANNUAL production reports released last week by Woodside and Santos reveal some striking differences in the trajectories of Australia’s two biggest independents.
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    Myuma-Dugalunji program to provide training chance




       TODAY'S STORIES CONTINUED


    Allez Wheatstone for Technip



    FRENCH engineering company Technip has won a $A110 million contract to provide “detailed design” on the offshore processing platform as part of Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG project.
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    Clough Curtain wins more PNG LNG work


    DESPITE the recent instability in Papua New Guinea, the Clough Curtain joint venture has received $A145 million worth of work orders for the PNG LNG project.
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    New rig is faster and cheaper: Baraka


    BARAKA Energy and Resources’ joint venture partner PetroFrontier Corp has secured Ensign Australia’s Rig 918 for two horizontal wells in the Southern Georgina Basin of Northern Territory.
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    Oilies on cyclone watch


    OILIES operating off Western Australia are on alert as tropical cyclone Iggy brews off the northwest coast.
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    Asco targes Asia Pacific


    OIL and gas logistics company ASCO has expanded its operations in the Asia Pacific region by opening a new oil and gas logistics hub in Singapore.
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    Big year ahead for Oil Search


    OIL Search’s largest-ever drilling program will aim to prove up more resources for the PNG LNG project and will test whether its acreage in PNG’s Gulf region could support a “standalone” LNG project. The P’nyang South appraisal well is expected to spud shortly.
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    Landslide at PNG LNG


    A MAJOR landslide near the $US15.7 billion ($A14.97 billion) PNG LNG project in Papua New Guinea yesterday is feared to have claimed lives and halted work.
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    Buru firms up Canning playbook


    IF ALL goes to plan, Buru Energy should have independent verification of resources and reserves for its Canning Basin fields by the end of the year.
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    Dragon to ride on winds of change
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    WELCOME to the Year of the Black Water Dragon – a year which, according to the Chinese zodiac, should prove a game-changer. By Paul Garvey in Hong Kong
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    Cue eyes Wortel cash


    CUE Energy Resources ended the last quarter with reduced debt and heightened anticipation as it looks forward to revenue from the Wortel gas field in Indonesia.
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    Horizon adds more PNG acreage


    HORIZON Oil has beefed up its acreage in Papua New Guinea, taking a 25% stake in Eaglewood Energy’s PPL 259 in Western Province for $US2.5 million ($A2.38 million), as it considers a possible LNG development in the country.
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    WHL talking Seychelles


    WHL continues to receive unsolicited offers for its Seychelles acreage, with several global exploration and production companies visiting the physical data room in Perth during the quarter.
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    Maari-Manaia summer trifecta in the works


    THE Maari-Manaia partners have confirmed plans to drill up to three appraisal wells in their offshore Taranaki field next summer and probably even more during the main development drilling phase that is scheduled for 2013-14.
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    Energy briefs


    IN TODAY’S briefs: Range moves closer to Georgian spud; Nido to shoot more Philippines seismic; APA Group raises more cash; Jupiter finishes another well in Kazakhstan.
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    KS Endeavour sinks


    THE KS Endeavour shallow water rig off the coast of Nigeria is now completely underwater, with Chevron hitting back at reports that the gas rig was leaking oil.
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    Coretrack gets a drenching


    CORETRACK has been forced to withdraw its GT3000 deep hole drilling rig from gold giant Newcrest Mining’s Telfer site in Western Australia after highly unconsolidated ground and massive water inflows led to delays onsite.
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    Cottee lands at Austin


    FOMER Nexus Energy chief executive Richard Cottee has moved on from his failed move to oust the Nexus board by joining the board of US-focused Austin Exploration as non-executive chairman.
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    Emerald in the rough
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    WHILE the Eagle Ford shale in the US continues to be abuzz with drilling and acreage acquisition, the noise isn’t so loud from the Niobrara shale to the north but Aussie junior Emerald Oil and Gas is staking its future on it. ENP spoke to Emerald managing director Mike Krzus.
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