HOME ABOUT US ADVERTISE PREMIUM SUBSCRIBE SITE MAP HELP CONTACT WORK FOR US   Thursday 9 September 2010 Make PNN my HomePage    SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT STORIES [ 913 Results - Showing Results 1 to 30 ] BP spreads the blame (Thursday, 9 September 2010) BP has released a report – the result of a four-month investigation – that concludes the Deepwater Horizon disaster arose from a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties. Full Story... Cougar reaches agreement with DERM (Monday, 6 September 2010) THE Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management will decide on the future of Cougar Energy’s Kingaroy pilot burn once the company completes an agreed forward work program. Full Story... Kimberley hub faces new challenges (Monday, 6 September 2010) OPPOSITION continues to build against the planned Kimberley liquefied natural gas hub with an international shareholder campaign and the loss of support from traditional owners emerging as the latest threats. Full Story... Barnett launches Kimberley land acquisition bid (Friday, 3 September 2010) WESTERN Australia has started the formal compulsory acquisition process to secure land at James Price Point for the Kimberley liquefied natural gas hub, resulting in a flurry of protests. Full Story... Fire breaks out at Gulf production platform (Friday, 3 September 2010) A MASSIVE fire at Mariner Energy’s Vermillion 380 production platform offshore Louisiana could sink an effort by the oil industry to resume deepwater exploration in the US. Full Story... Queensland opens up CSG groundwater data (Wednesday, 1 September 2010) QUEENSLAND has set up a new interactive online portal providing the latest information on coal seam gas groundwater monitoring in the Surat and Bowen basins. Full Story... Cougar to meet with DERM (Monday, 30 August 2010) COUGAR Energy is set to meet with Queensland’s Department of Environment and Resource Management this week to clarify requests for additional information on its Kingaroy environmental evaluation report. Full Story... CCS projects get funding boost (Monday, 30 August 2010) CO2CRC has received $855,000 in additional funding for two carbon dioxide capture projects from Brown Coal Innovation Australia under Victoria’s Energy Technology Innovation Strategy. Full Story... Cougar seeks answers from Qld govt (Friday, 27 August 2010) COUGAR Energy is seeking urgent clarification on its Kingaroy environmental evaluation report after it was left surprised and confused by a series of conflicting statements from the Queensland government on Wednesday. Full Story... Carbon files Bloodwood report (Tuesday, 24 August 2010) CARBON Energy is confident the environmental evaluation of its Bloodwood Creek site that was submitted to the Queensland government confirms its environmental practices and performance are sound. Full Story... Cougar sees light at end of the tunnel (Wednesday, 18 August 2010) COUGAR Energy is finalising the terms of a financing facility that could see the company resume trading on the Australian Securities Exchange before the end of the month. Full Story... Probe into vessel incident off Barrow Island (Friday, 13 August 2010) THE Western Australia Department of Transport is investigating a safety incident that left an accommodation vessel carrying 270 workers off Barrow Island with two holes in its hull. Full Story... DERM clears Kingaroy water bores (Friday, 13 August 2010) COUGAR Energy has been vindicated after the latest testing results from groundwater in and around the Kingaroy underground coal gasification plant found there are no concerns with water quality. Full Story... Roc honoured for safety innovation (Thursday, 12 August 2010) ROC Oil has won the annual Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Safety Innovation Award while ExxonMobil and Santos were highly commended for their submissions. Full Story... PTTEP beefing up Montara safety (Thursday, 12 August 2010) PTTEP Australasia has developed and been implementing an action plan to address the deficiencies and areas of concern identified in its drilling operations during the Montara Commission of Inquiry. Full Story... Cement plug effective: BP (Monday, 9 August 2010) BP has confirmed the cement injected from the top of the well has formed an effective plug as a poll found strong support for increased regulation of the oil and gas industry. Full Story... Static kill started on GoM well (Wednesday, 4 August 2010) BP has started pumping drilling mud down the top of the MC252 well in the Gulf of Mexico, with early reports indicating all was going according to plan. Full Story... Prelude review delayed (Monday, 2 August 2010) AN environmental review for Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas project has been deferred to October 1, more than a month after the Australian election on August 21. Full Story... South End facing up against CSG-LNG (Tuesday, 27 July 2010) RESIDENTS of the tiny community of South End on Curtis Island are poised to fight plans by the coal seam gas industry to dredge Gladstone Harbour to allow passage by liquefied natural gas vessels. Full Story... UCG bore tests within drinking levels (Tuesday, 27 July 2010) TESTS taken from bores in the vicinity of Cougar Energy’s underground coal gasification trial plant at Kingaroy in Queensland have confirmed that benzene and toluene levels are well within Australian Drinking Water Guidelines. Full Story... Indonesia calls for Montara spill compensation (Monday, 26 July 2010) INDONESIA has called on Thailand’s PTTEP to pay compensation for damages caused by the Montara oil spill last year. Full Story... Oil majors unite to protect GoM (Thursday, 22 July 2010) THE ill-fated Macondo well and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has proved to be a wake-up call for the oil and gas industry with four US oil majors committing $US1 billion ($A1.13 billion) to set up a rapid response plan to deal with oil spills in the Gulf. Full Story... Cougar assessing options as Kingaroy plant remains shut (Wednesday, 21 July 2010) COUGAR Energy is weighing up its options after the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management decided not to remove the ban on the company’s Kingaroy underground coal gasification project. Full Story... Kingaroy remains shut despite encouraging tests (Monday, 19 July 2010) THE latest test results from bores in and around Cougar Energy’s Kingaroy underground coal gasification pilot plant have found no evidence of chemicals, however the plant will remain closed until the Queensland government is assured that groundwater resources are protected. Full Story... BP capping stack holding oil at bay (Monday, 19 July 2010) NO oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since BP shut the valves on the three ram capping stack over the MC252 well, though concerns have been raised about the lower than expected pressure. Full Story... Safety tops list for CSG producers (Friday, 16 July 2010) COAL seam gas companies operating in Queensland are meeting required health and safety standards after a wellhead safety audit found only about 5% of CSG wells tested needed immediate repairs. Full Story... BP stops flow of oil into Gulf as well test starts (Friday, 16 July 2010) OIL has finally stopped flowing from the gushing MC252 well in the Gulf of Mexico – the first time in 85 days since the disaster started – after BP shut off the three ram capping stack. Full Story... Inpex, Total release Ichthys draft EIS (Thursday, 15 July 2010) INPEX and Total E&P have, as expected, released the draft environmental impact statement for their Ichthys liquefied natural gas project in northwestern Australia. Full Story... Garrett taking more time to decide on CSG-LNG (Wednesday, 14 July 2010) FEDERAL Environment Minister Peter Garrett has pushed rulings on two coal seam gas-to-liquefied natural gas plants proposed by BG Group and Santos back to October 11. Full Story... BP to halt oil flow from leaking well (Wednesday, 14 July 2010) BP is set to carry out a key test on its leaking Gulf of Mexico well to determine if the new three ram capping stack can shut off the flow of oil. Full Story... 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