April
Activists Samuel Terry, Sandon lawyer up for Karoon Energy fight
The pair have added Allens and Mont Lawyers to their legal teams as they look to talk on the Karoon Energy board.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Activist funds to push Karoon Energy on dividends
Samuel Terry and Sandon Capital will target the oil and gas producer’s board before May’s annual general meeting and push for more dividend payments.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Former exec claims Oil Search didn’t tell CFO he was being replaced
Former Oil Search executive Ayten Saridas claims she was told by the CEO to keep the fact she was being canvassed to be CFO secret from the man she would replace.
- Max Mason
Oil Search director’s comments allegedly cost exec new job
Former Oil Search executive Ayten Saridas allegedly lost a job she had begun working in after disparaging remarks from a board member contacted as a reference.
- Max Mason
Oil Search investigation found executives ‘felt belittled’ by MD
Part of the report was read out in court, with former chief financial officer-designate Ayten Saridas suing the company for alleged bullying and harassment.
- Max Mason
January
Former Oil Search boss Peter Botten appointed chair of Vast Renewables
The company, which was founded by Melbourne’s billionaire Kahlbetzer family, listed on the Nasdaq in December. It plans major projects in South Australia.
- Kylar Loussikian
March 2023
- Exclusive
- Governance
‘I’ve got nothing left to lose’: The fight against Oil Search
A former Oil Search executive who is suing the company for breach of contract says she’s speaking out about why she left the company because the legal process isn’t working.
- Jemima Whyte
February 2023
How family offices will help this $100m mine restart
Mainstream banks are abandoning fossil fuels but resources veteran Ayten Saridas says there’s no shortage of lenders willing to help her restart a NSW coal mine.
- Peter Ker
September 2022
Santos mulls $2.2b bid for 5pc stake PNG project
Santos is considering the bid that would free up cash for the oil and gas company to develop a new project in Alaska.
- Colin Packham
- Opinion
- Energy
AGL struggles to find its future
The company’s turbulence shows no sign of easing as it tries to navigate its way to a decarbonised future and Mike Cannon-Brookes steps up the pressure.
- Jennifer Hewett
August 2022
S’all not well at SolGold
They say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but the luck of some has us wondering.
- Michael Roddan
May 2022
Former Oil Search CFO Ayten Saridas joins SolGold
The former Oil Search executive who is suing the company for bullying her out of her job has joined the Brisbane-headquartered copper and gold explorer.
- Michael Roddan and Jemima Whyte
April 2022
Prices power doubling in Santos sales
Surging commodity prices and the Oil Search merger have put a rocket behind Santos’ March quarter sales.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Time for UBS to come clean on PNG loan
Swiss investment bank UBS needs to lift the transparency around how the sovereign lending sausage it sold to the PNG government was made, and what it earned from it.
- Tony Boyd
UBS faces 10-year ban from PNG as royal commission delivers verdict
UBS Australia could be blocked from doing business in Papua New Guinea for a decade over its role in a controversial $1.3 billion loan.
- Jonathan Shapiro and Lisa Murray
- Opinion
- Investment banking
Citi boss Marc Luet shrugs off the doomsayers
His upbeat assessment of capital market activity contrasts sharply with the experience of the giant US investment banks.
- Karen Maley
‘Bullied’ Oil Search CFO launches whistleblowing test case
Ayten Saridas has dramatically broadened her case against the oil company in a move that will test new whistleblowing laws.
- Michael Roddan and Jemima Whyte
February 2022
Santos leads bonanza for oil and gas producers
The company is the headline act in a sector that has been pumped up by big energy prices despite concerns over climate change.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
January 2022
Investors prepare for ‘soggy’ earnings season as costs climb
Fund managers fear quickly climbing consumer prices threaten to sap corporate profits in the earnings season beginning this week, providing further fuel to drag the market lower.
- Richard Henderson
Soaring LNG prices, record output boosts Santos
Full-year sales for 2021 were buoyed by a surge in international gas prices, as well as the addition of Oil Search’s assets.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith