Tagged With Andrew Kemp
25 June 2025
The country’s new government has grand plans for renewables, but the structural changes needed for these policies will take years to carry out
10 June 2025
Scapegoating foreign buyers will not solve country’s gas shortages
12 May 2025
With the gas industry’s staunchest advocates and opponents taking brutal blows, the sector looks like treading a path of insipid indifference
15 April 2025
Australia’s East Coast Gas projections for a supply shortfall have been pushed further out, but the challenge to meet evolving gas demand and the shifting assumptions around the fundamentals remain just as stark
5 March 2025
Petronas is making huge efforts to arrest falling oil production and accelerate gas increases to meet rising demand, but political tensions persist
6 February 2025
Policy initiatives will take time to reverse declining output, and restoring investor confidence is far from certain
16 December 2024
As gas supplies dwindle, LNG becomes the only viable solution in a state that has focused on transition
19 September 2024
Lack of competitiveness in refining sector and underbaked oil reserves threaten long-term stability
2 August 2024
Looming supply shortfalls will force some difficult political decisions
2 June 2024
Backroom political deal-making has undermined the government’s long-term vision for the domestic gas sector
8 May 2024
Despite Australia’s first import terminal nearing completion, the prospect of additional regasification projects is far from certain
28 March 2024
As a gas supply shortfall looms, balancing regulatory flexibility with energy security and investor confidence will be critical
21 February 2024
The industry is calling for the return to market-led price-setting on the east coast
18 November 2021
High prices bolster Australian upstream developments
14 September 2021
The independent is looking to capitalise as more companies move to exit mature oil and gas assets, CEO Paul Blakeley tells Petroleum Economist
13 August 2021
Santos joins the list of developers to withdraw from the region, deeming it too risky
11 August 2021
The deal’s revised terms may require a greater focus on cost efficiency
24 June 2021
The Australian firm plans to achieve net-zero emissions from its Pluto LNG project in Western Australia by 2050
5 May 2021
The government has made remarkably little progress on its plans since unveiling the agenda in September 2020
22 April 2021
Timely delivery of new projects will be vital to avoid shortfalls, AEMO says
15 April 2021
Firm will drill first well offshore Timor-Leste in the second half of this year
29 March 2021
A government-funded company has launched an initiative intended to save more than $14bn in decommissioning costs over the next few decades
2 March 2021
The country’s liquefaction sector is trying to rebound from a challenging 12 months where billions of dollars’ worth of feedstock projects went on the back burner
1 March 2021
Canberra’s flagship post-Covid energy policy faces headwinds from a looming supply shortfall
25 February 2021
The sector may still be in its infancy, but the industry’s prospects have improved rapidly over the last six months
23 February 2021
Competition for a shrinking pool of capital may put the country’s older offshore oil and gas fields on the back foot in the coming years
22 February 2021
Australia’s energy security takes another hit with ExxonMobil opting to shutter its Victoria refinery
1 December 2020
The Northern Territory blocks share characteristics with the US Marcellus play and could become a major supplier to the gas-hungry east coast market
28 September 2020
The Canberra government has tried to throw the country’s refineries a financial lifeline in an existential struggle
3 September 2020
The ACCC is struggling to ensure domestic consumers are offered terms that are even close to those available to export customers
21 August 2020
Opposition politicians and media sniff blood over an economic revival strategy driven by natural gas, rather than renewables
10 July 2020
The Australian government’s vision is at risk of unravelling under intense scrutiny
8 July 2020
Producers insist the costs of producing gas domestically—as well as prevailing spot prices—significantly exceed the historic benchmark price level
24 April 2020
Co-owners Shell and PetroChina take FID, against the global trend, to cover looming Australian east coast supply shortfall and feed LNG exports
3 April 2020
With international oil prices at nearly two-decade lows, Asia’s oil and gas developers have begun to review their capex budgets as they strive to weather the downturn
2 April 2020
Developers have begun delaying new gas projects in response to oil price pressures and further capex cuts may be necessary
28 February 2020
Shale gas developers are beginning to ramp up their exploration efforts following the end of a freeze on fracking approvals in the Northern Territory
