August
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- Earnings season
Woodside investor relief as payouts to remain ‘strong’
Analysts are expected to lift Woodside’s forecast yield after it clung to an 80 per cent payout ratio for shareholder returns.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Woodside punished as investors query ‘marginal’ green projects
The oil and gas producer had almost $2.6 billion wiped off its market value as investors struggled to accept projected returns on a large US acquisition.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
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- Gas
Woodside’s $30b Browse LNG project faces EPA knockback threat
The recommendation is not final and could be reversed after further negotiations, but a final rejection would be a blow to Labor’s long-term gas strategy.
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- Ben Potter, Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson
July
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- Gas
Woodside says investors back $1.4b US buy, but some have questions
Meg O’Neill says no investors have questioned investing in US LNG, but Aware Super queried the impact on climate targets and shares fell further on Tuesday.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
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- Mergers & acquisitions
Woodside splashes $1.35b in the US to become ‘global LNG powerhouse’
The acquisition of Tellurian will give the ASX-listed oil and gas company a foothold to develop exports in the booming US market for shipping natural gas.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Woodside’s big bet on US LNG will collide with Trump’s second coming
Just days after Donald Trump declared he wants to “drill, baby, drill”, Woodside has placed $22 billion on an unloved US project. It isn’t without risks.
- James Thomson
May
Woodside eyes data centres to justify hydrogen bet
Woodside is looking to data centres’ hunger for green power as a potential solution to the problem of finding customers willing to justify the oil and gas giant’s commercial-scale bet on green hydrogen.
- Ben Potter
Fortescue, Woodside find common ground on green hydrogen
Andrew Forrest has been one of the oil and gas giant’s biggest critics. The two are on the same page about US tax credits issues holding up renewable projects.
- Brad Thompson
March
Buyers baulk over Woodside’s green fuel
The oil and gas giant has told investors that buyers are finding it more difficult to use lower carbon alternatives like hydrogen as costs remain high.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
What's buoying you about the Australian economy?
Nine's Peter Costello, Woodside's Meg O'Neill, CommBank's Matt Comyn, GrainCorp's Robert Spurway, AustralianSuper's Paul Schroder and AmCham's April Palmerlee.
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February
Family choices explain part of gender pay gap, say bosses
Corporate leaders say women taking more family responsibilities makes the dominance of men in the highest-paid roles difficult to shift. But some female directors said women “deciding” to take on lower-paid work was a “false choice”.
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- Hannah Wootton and Sally Patten
Men dominate top pay quartiles at biggest companies
Men were far more likely to earn more than women the further up in organisations they moved, new data shows.
- Hannah Wootton and Cindy Yin
Woodside heads for fresh clash on climate as profits slide
The oil and gas producer’s pursuit of growth projects met with criticism from activist shareholder groups as benchmark profit dropped 37 per cent.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Woodside needs stars to align to get Santos
Where does Santos fit in to Woodside’s cash in/cash out story? Everyone wants to know.
- Anthony Macdonald
January
Woodside CEO cools prospects for premium in Santos deal
Meg O’Neill pointed to the “reasonably modest” premiums in the latest US deals struck in the oil and gas sector, and said any deal remains uncertain.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
December 2023
What our top CEOs read, watched and listened to in 2023
Feminist icons, inspirational leaders, sports stars and punk rock got Australia’s top chief executives excited this year.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
Game on: would-be merger partners Santos, Woodside prep data rooms
With data rooms only now open, due diligence is yet to begin in earnest.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Santos investors demand premium in Woodside mega-merger
Creating an $80 billion Australian “champion” with real clout on the global LNG stage faces a big challenge as Santos investors demand a decent premium.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Santos, Woodside bosses met in recent weeks, deal ‘5pc’ advanced
The nascent talks have included at least one in-person meeting between Woodside CEO, Meg O’Neill, and her counterpart at Santos,
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Woodside and Santos exploring merger
Both organisations have been considering the implications and logistics of any such deal, but declined to comment on “speculation”.
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- Myriam Robin