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ExxonMobil and Woodside Energy’s Marlin B platform in Bass Strait.

US giant ExxonMobil gives up control of critical Australian gas supplies

ExxonMobil will hand control of eastern Australia’s main source of domestic gas to Woodside, which wants to tap more supplies from rapidly depleting fields.

  • Nick Toscano

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Iran’s parliament has voted to block shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran has vowed to choke global shipping. That could push petrol to $2.50 a litre

The Iranian parliament has voted to halt shipping through one of the world’s key energy choke points, risking retaliation from the US.

  • Mike Foley and Frances Howe

Australia an energy target as Iran-Israeli war triggers global turmoil

The risks in the Middle East conflict help explain exactly why one of the region’s major oil players is making a $36 billion bet on Australian energy.

  • Colin Kruger

The battleground for Iran’s last stand could hold the world to ransom

Iran’s leader says he will not back down. Could he use a shipping choke point as leverage?

  • Angus Holland and Jackson Graham
War in the Middle East may lead to higher petrol prices at the pump.

Oil prices have jumped. Do you need to run to the petrol station?

There’s no crisis in oil markets yet, but your bill at the bowser might creep up.

  • Millie Muroi
An oil storage facility burns after being hit by Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday.

Fight to the death: The world has to prepare for a Middle East energy storm

Markets are acting like the Middle East conflict will blow over as seen so often in the past. But this time it’s different. Does Trump understand what he did?

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Empire Energy, which has had a name change to Beetaloo Energy Australia, is kick-starting a hydraulic stimulation program under its new moniker at the company’s onshore Carpentaria-5H well, part of its Carpentaria gas pilot project in the Northern Territory’s massive Beetaloo Basin.

Empire/Beetaloo stimulates gas extraction at massive NT project

Beetaloo Energy Australia – formerly Empire Energy Group - has kick-started hydraulic stimulation activities at its Carpentaria-5H horizontal well in the NT’s massive Beetaloo Basin.

  • Craig Nolan
Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher.

Santos backs $30b takeover from Middle East oil giant

Santos is likely to be swallowed up by a consortium led by Abu Dhabi’s national oil company in a takeover worth $30 billion.

  • Simon Johanson and Natassia Chrysanthos
Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Jim Chalmers faces a mission-critical national security test

The federal treasurer will have to decide if Australia should risk allowing the sale of significant gas assets to what is essentially a foreign-government-owned company.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Production maintenance technician Andrew Bayle on board Nganhurra before its retirement in 2018.

The curious case of the ghost ship that vanished, and reappeared

In 2018, Nganhurra sailed from Australia to join the “ghost ships” in Malaysia. Critics say the case highlights the need for a homegrown decommissioning industry.

  • Bianca Hall

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