Colin Packham

Colin Packham is the energy reporter at The Australian. He was previously at The Australian Financial Review and Reuters in Sydney and Canberra.

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A worker walks through the Queensland Curtis Liquefied Natural Gas (QCLNG) project site, operated by QGC Pty, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, in Gladstone, Australia, on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Gas from more than 2,500 wells travels hundreds of miles by pipeline to the project, where it's chilled and pumped into 10-story-high tanks before being loaded onto massive ships. Photographer: Patrick Hamilton/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Winter gas supply fears ease

Gas supplies are well placed to endure another cold snap across the east coast, the country’s energy market operator reported in an industry briefing.

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Senex Energy’s Project Atlas near Wandoan in the south-west Qld. Picture:Supplied by Senex Energy

APA to upgrade Queensland pipeline after Senex deal

APA Group will spend $20m to upgrade a Queensland pipeline to bring new gas from Senex’s $1bn expansion, in a deal that will feed much-needed supplies to the east coast.

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Viva Incident. There was an incident where a crane dropped a compressor on Tuesday.

Viva tests Victoria’s attitude to gas

Viva Energy has submitted an updated environmental report for a LNG import terminal at Geelong, testing the Victorian government’s potential softening attitude towards gas projects.

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French far right party "Reconquete!" Vice-President and head of the Reconquete! party list for the European elections Marion Marechal (C) and French Senator Stephane Ravier (R) applaud a speechduring the European election campaign launch meeting of the far right Reconquete party at Le Dome de Paris - Palais des Sports in Paris on March 10, 2024. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

French poll adds to market concerns

Australia’s sharemarket is expected to open lower on Monday as traders await the results of France’s parliamentary elections and consider the latest signs of a cooling global economy.

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(FILES) A ferry navigates past wind turbines off the coast of Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland, on April 29, 2022. In Europe's oil and gas "capital" of Aberdeen, voters are apprehensive about Labour's plans for combatting climate change if the opposition party wins next month's UK general election as expected. Labour scaled back its green investment pledges under pressure from the ruling Conservatives about how it would fund them, but still promises to make Britain a "clean energy superpower". (Photo by Andy Buchanan / AFP)

Global giants ‘to miss’ NSW offshore power licence

A decision is understood to be imminent to grant a sole permit to Oceanex and Norwegian giant Equinor.

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Platform images from clean energy start-up Neara.

Energy giants call for transmission rethink

Energy ministers are grappling with how to resolve the issue of grid congestion, which occurs when there is more electricity than the system can handle, and supplies are wasted.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - June 25, 2024: Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Power bill battler numbers up 18pc

The number of people struggling to pay electricity bills jumped 18 per cent between 2022 and 2023, the competition regulator found, underscoring the cost-of living crisis that has sapped support for the government.

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General view taken as workers of electricity transmission operator TransnetBW assemble a 380-KV power line on a high-voltage power pole near Pforzheim, southern Germany, on August 3, 2023. TransnetBW operates the electricity transmission grid in Federal state Baden-Wuerttemberg and expands it with a new 12 kilometers long high-voltage line near this city. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)

NSW flicks switch on high voltage infrastructure

The NSW government has set the ball rolling on its ambitious Renewable Energy Zones plan with approval for a new 240km stretch of transmission lines to link the first of them to the grid.

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The head of Squadron, one of Australia’s largest renewable energy developers and owned by Andrew Forrest, says the report illustrates the stark challenge but that progress was being made.

Quitting renewable path a waste of billions, says Squadron

Abandoning the energy transition would waste billions of dollars and risk significant opportunities for regional Australia, Andrew Forrest’s Squadron Energy chief says.

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The Dugald River Solar Farm on the southern outskirts of Mount Isa, close to the Boulia-Mount Isa Highway.

‘Put rocket under renewables for net zero’

Australia must install 16 times its current capacity of batteries and pumped hydro by 2050, while large-scale wind and solar generation will have to jump six fold, AEMO says.

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