BP Plc (BP/), Europe’s second-largest oil company, expects to start its proposed deep-water drilling campaign off southern Australia in late 2015 or early 2016 and to obtain a drilling rig before the end of this year.  More »

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s biggest oil company, said its Arrow Energy Ltd. venture in Australia is in cooperation talks with competitors building liquefied natural gas projects in Queensland state.  More »

It has been a while since my last blog post. In the climate change legal world, most of what has happened in the past few months has been of the utilitarian, and not the showy variety. California continues to implement its Global Warming Solutions Act (A.B. 32) and has already held two auctions of the [...]  More »

Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. energy company, agreed to pay as much as $349 million to join Beach Energy Ltd. in a natural gas exploration campaign in central Australia in its first shale investment in the country.  More »

Chevron made a new discovery of natural gas off of Australia’s west coast, adding to other recent exploration successes in a key region for the company.  More »

Chevron has announced two additional natural-gas discoveries in offshore western Australia, the company announced on Thursday morning.  More »

On December 2, Noble Energy, the Houston company that has played a vital role in drilling and confirming massive deep-water natural gas deposits (the largest in recent memory) in Israeli and Cypriot waters, announced a 30 percent sale of the Leviathan field to Australia’s Woodside.  More »

Australian shale explorers may be a decade away from producing oil and gas on a large scale because of obstacles ranging from a lack of drilling equipment to higher labor and infrastructure costs, Wood Mackenzie Ltd. said.  More »

ConocoPhillips (COP), the third-largest U.S. oil company, said it’s interested in further shale investments in Australia following a partnership last year with Perth-based New Standard Energy Ltd.  More »

If you are interested in a new adventure and looking for a new job, Australia might be the place for you.  More »

Recruiting from the shipbuilding, military and construction industries is the best way for the oil and gas industry to overcome the lack of skilled workers, according to recruitment firm NES Global Talent.  More »

FMC Technologies today announced a $325 million contract with Chevron. At the same time, Rolls-Royce inked a $650 million contract with Petrobras.  More »