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10 March 2010
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TODAY'S STORIES
SLUGCATCHER
Slugcatcher on the link between alternative energy projects and government
(Monday, 8 March 2010)
IT’S not often you get a high and low on the same day. We did last week in the curious world of geothermal energy which might seem to have little to do with petroleum but, as
Slugcatcher
will demonstrate, has everything to do with oil – and wasteful government.
Full Story...
MORE SLUGCATCHER
Slugcatcher on the rise of the oil service sector
Slugcatcher on the spinning wars
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PREMIUM FEATURES
People power
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
IT is estimated growth in the resources sector will create 136,000 new direct and indirect jobs over the next five years. While that is great news for the industry and the growth of the nation, the most urgent issue now is finding where all the skilled workers are going to come from.
Full Story...
MORE PREMIUM FEATURES
Oil hovers around $US80
MARKETWRAP: UCG players in the spotlight
Personnel Movements for the week ending March 5
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TECHNICAL & PRODUCT
Petrosys WMS helps oil finders communicate opportunities
(Wednesday, 24 February 2010)
RESERVOIR mapping software provider Petrosys has added the ability to display web map service content in its mapping application, allowing access to the rich array of imagery available via web services.
Full Story...
MORE TECHNICAL & PRODUCT
CLRS a big hit with inventors
Sigma to unveil mooring system for FPSOs
Subsea rock trencher on show at AOG
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LETTERS
Slug hunting
(Tuesday, 23 February 2010)
THE
Slug’s
article this week [Slugcatcher on the spinning wars] has drawn some flak from Woodside Petroleum and a reader.
Full Story...
LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS
Shrink-wrapped loaders head to Gorgon
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
THREE shrink-wrapped Komatsu WA600-6 wheel loaders are headed for environmentally sensitive Barrow Island as part of Rapid Crushing and Screening Contractors’ contract to help build the workers’ village for the $45 billion Gorgon gas project.
Full Story...
MORE LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS
Shell, PetroChina bid for Arrow
GE ups Gorgon order book to $1.2B
Mitsui OSK provides shipping for PNG LNG, Gorgon
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COAL SEAM GAS
More CSG acquisitions in the making?
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
SHELL and PetroChina’s bid for Arrow Energy could well spark a new wave of consolidation in the coal seam gas sector.
Full Story...
MORE COAL SEAM GAS
Bow jumps on 3P reserve upgrade
WestSide pushes on with Dawson Seamgas
JV to service Qld CSG sector
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SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
Pluto workers not exposed to asbestos: Woodside
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
WOODSIDE Petroleum says tests have confirmed workers at the Pluto LNG project near Karratha have not been exposed to asbestos.
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MORE SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
Asbestos scare at Pluto
BJ Services, Medibank snap up Gorgon work
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CAREERS & RECRUITMENT
Lessening the impact of skills shortages
(Monday, 8 March 2010)
THE future impact of skills shortages can be reduced now if employers invest in recruiting and training entry-level candidates, recruiter Hays Resources & Mining says.
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DRILLING
Geodynamics held back by heavy rain, floods
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
GEODYNAMICS’ work program for the Innamincka joint venture’s hot rocks project in the Cooper Basin has been hampered by heavy rain and floods.
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MORE DRILLING
New Standard, Burleson off to good start in Texas
Jupiter encouraged by Kazakh well
AWE begins NZ campaign
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PIPELINES
BJ Services, Medibank snap up Gorgon work
(Monday, 8 March 2010)
CHEVRON has awarded more contracts for its Gorgon LNG project, inking an $US80 million pipeline precommissioning deal with BJ Services Company and a $20 million medical services contract with Medibank Health Solutions.
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PRODUCTION
Woollybutt taps reopen
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
ENI and partners have restarted production from the Woollybutt field, off Western Australia, almost a year after output was suspended.
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MORE PRODUCTION
Maari production set to rebound
New Standard, Burleson off to good start in Texas
Oil production in a slump, gas production growing: EnergyQuest
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Pluto workers not exposed to asbestos: Woodside
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
WOODSIDE Petroleum says tests have confirmed workers at the Pluto LNG project near Karratha have not been exposed to asbestos.
Full Story...
Woollybutt taps reopen
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
ENI and partners have restarted production from the Woollybutt field, off Western Australia, almost a year after output was suspended.
Full Story...
More CSG acquisitions in the making?
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
SHELL and PetroChina’s bid for Arrow Energy could well spark a new wave of consolidation in the coal seam gas sector.
Full Story...
CURRENT FOCUS FEATURES
AOG & INNOVATION
Hallin, Offshore Unlimited to capitalise on marine growth
Lord Jones to address AOG dinner
Subsea conference to feature prominent speakers
TODAY'S STORIES CONTINUED
Deloitte WA Index back in black
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
WOODSIDE Petroleum has continued to hold its position as the largest company on the Deloitte Western Australian Index, while US-focused Antares Energy was one of the largest movers and shakers.
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Bow jumps on 3P reserve upgrade
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
INVESTORS have welcomed news that Bow Energy has again increased its proven, probable and possible (3P) reserves by 60% to 2318 petajoules, as it works towards a reserves target of 2750PJ for 2010.
Full Story...
Mosaic rearranges the pieces
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
SURAT Basin-focused petroleum producer Mosaic Oil has opted to take a one-off financial hit in order to refocus its exploration and development priorities.
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People power
Exclusively for Premium Subscribers
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
IT is estimated growth in the resources sector will create 136,000 new direct and indirect jobs over the next five years. While that is great news for the industry and the growth of the nation, the most urgent issue now is finding where all the skilled workers are going to come from.
Full Story...
WestSide pushes on with Dawson Seamgas
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
WESTSIDE Corporation says its plans to form a joint venture with Mitsui E&P for the acquisition of the Dawson Seamgas coal seam gas fields in the Bowen Basin have been unaffected by the pre-emption on adjoining tenements.
Full Story...
Maari production set to rebound
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
FIELD production at the offshore Taranaki Maari oil platform is expected to ramp back up from about 23,000 to 40,000 barrels per day once remedial subsurface engineering work is completed over the next few months, according to operator OMV.
Full Story...
JV to service Qld CSG sector
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
A NEW joint venture has been formed by international energy services company Wood Group and Toowoomba-based Wagners to service Queensland’s coal seam gas sector.
Full Story...
Shrink-wrapped loaders head to Gorgon
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
THREE shrink-wrapped Komatsu WA600-6 wheel loaders are headed for environmentally sensitive Barrow Island as part of Rapid Crushing and Screening Contractors’ contract to help build the workers’ village for the $45 billion Gorgon gas project.
Full Story...
Qld govt offers $10M to skill workers for CSG-LNG industry
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
THE Australian Petroleum Production Exploration Association has welcomed the Queensland government’s $10 million flagship training program, saying it would help kick off new careers in the burgeoning coal seam gas-to-liquefied natural gas industry.
Full Story...
Geodynamics held back by heavy rain, floods
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
GEODYNAMICS’ work program for the Innamincka joint venture’s hot rocks project in the Cooper Basin has been hampered by heavy rain and floods.
Full Story...
Exoma aiming high
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
AN extensive review of Exoma Energy’s five Galilee Basin permits in Queensland has confirmed the company’s belief that its coal seam gas areas alone could host a gas resource of more than 20 trillion cubic feet.
Full Story...
New Standard, Burleson off to good start in Texas
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
US partners New Standard Energy and Burleson Energy have had early success with their six-well drilling campaign at the Colorado Country project with the first well to be tied into production.
Full Story...
Jupiter encouraged by Kazakh well
(Tuesday, 9 March 2010)
JUPITER Energy says it has encountered hydrocarbons in a reservoir not thought to be a potential economic target with the J-50 well in the Mangistau Basin, Kazakhstan.
Full Story...
Slugcatcher on the link between alternative energy projects and government
(Monday, 8 March 2010)
IT’S not often you get a high and low on the same day. We did last week in the curious world of geothermal energy which might seem to have little to do with petroleum but, as
Slugcatcher
will demonstrate, has everything to do with oil – and wasteful government.
Full Story...
Asbestos scare at Pluto
(Monday, 8 March 2010)
WOODSIDE Petroleum has begun probing claims by the Australian Manufacturers Workers Union that workers at Woodside’s Pluto LNG project have been exposed to asbestos.
Full Story...
Shell, PetroChina bid for Arrow
(Monday, 8 March 2010)
SHELL and PetroChina have, as widely anticipated, made a joint takeover offer for Australia’s Arrow Energy in a deal worth around $3.3 billion.
Full Story...
WA govt awards 10 hot rocks permits
(Monday, 8 March 2010)
GREENPOWER Energy, New World Energy and Geothermal Energy have snapped up new exploration permits to develop geothermal energy projects in Western Australia.
Full Story...
AWE begins NZ campaign
(Monday, 8 March 2010)
THE semi-submersible rig Kan Tan IV has started its extensive offshore New Zealand exploration campaign planned for this autumn and winter, spudding the Hoki-1 wildcat well on Friday night.
Full Story...
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IT’S not often you get a high and low on the same day. We did last week in the curious world of geothermal energy which might seem to have little to do with petroleum but, as Slugcatcher will demonstrate, has everything to do with oil – and wasteful government.
IT is estimated growth in the resources sector will create 136,000 new direct and indirect jobs over the next five years. While that is great news for the industry and the growth of the nation, the most urgent issue now is finding where all the skilled workers are going to come from.
THE Slug’s article this week [Slugcatcher on the spinning wars] has drawn some flak from Woodside Petroleum and a reader.
