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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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA : NewsWire Photos - SEPTEMBER 30 2024 ; A general view of the digital boards at the ASX in Sydney. Picture: NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Stocks to rise but investors still wary

The ASX is poised to open marginally higher when trading resumes on Tuesday, though investors remain wary as they await data expected to shape Australia’s monetary policy.

Colin Packham

energyRenewable energy & economy

Aerial view of leafy eastern suburban houses on 4-way cross road intersection in Adelaide, South Australia: directly above, rooftop solar, trees. Housing property generic

Emergency diesel backstop to prop up grid

A rule change will see two diesel generators used to prop up the South Australia grid as the state struggles to reconcile renewables with ensuring grid security.

Colin Packham

energyMining & Energy

A picture shows photovoltaic panels at the new Solar Farm, located along the runway of Rome Fiumicino airport, during the inauguration by Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), in Fiumicino on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP)

Cooling climate action clouds solar’s surge

The global surge in solar power will end in 2025 as less ambitious climate action results in growth in the number of installed PV cells stalling, energy group Wood Mackenzie has predicted.

Colin Packham

energyMining & Energy

A Santos Ltd. pilot well operates on a farm property in Narrabri, Australia, on Thursday, May 25, 2017. A decade after the shale revolution transformed the U.S. energy landscape, Australia — poised to overtake Qatar as the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas — is experiencing its own quandary over natural gas. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg

Santos production to jump amid expansion plans

The energy group, led by Kevin Gallagher, expects production to jump next year as a major growth project comes online.

Colin Packham

energyMining & Energy

A map showing the Australian plans and pipeline to Singapore.

Cannon-Brookes’ SunCable energy project unveils new CEO

The Mike Cannon-Brookes-backed SunCable undersea energy delivery project has named a former Origin executive to take on the role of CEO.

Colin Packham

energyMining & Energy

NETWORK SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH NETWORK PIC DESK BEFORE PUBLISHING. Woodside Energy Karratha Gas plant

Woodside pauses hydrogen and solar projects

Woodside has paused work on a large-scale hydrogen development and a solar project as it moves to prioritise high value core assets – most notably a significant expansion of LNG.

Colin Packham

relationshipNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA : NewsWire Photos - JANUARY 21 2025; The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is in Western Sydney today and addresses the media in a press conference. Picture: NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard

ALP’s workaround to cope with a new political climate

The Albanese government has raised the prospect of working more closely with Democrat-controlled states in the US on climate change initiatives.

Greg Brown and Colin Packham

energyMining & Energy

Santos defers $3bn WA oil project as it focuses on dividends

A deferred decision whether to proceed with the Dorado oil development in WA is likely to please shareholders who have pushed for Santos to trim capital expenditure.

Colin Packham

exclusiveMining & Energy

UP TO 1000 jobs could be created across the Darling Downs, after Arrow Energy's long-planned Surat Gas Project was given the go-ahead by the State Government.

Joint venture on cusp of huge gas well expansion for Surat project

A Shell and PetroChina joint venture is about to start drilling hundreds of new wells at its Surat Gas Project in Queensland, adding a total of 450 to the 275 it has online.

Colin Packham

energyBusiness

05/05/2023. Gerard Spinks, 59, Bayswater plant assistant manager, has worked in coal fired plants for more than four decades and is concerned about what will happen to workers as the economy detransitions. Photographed with Bayswater Power station in the background, 15 minutes south of Muswellbrook in NSW. Britta Campion / The Australian

Wholesale electricity contracts surge over summer

Recent coal power outages have lifted wholesale electricity contracts which could flow through to bills, in a move that would hit households but boost AGL and Origin.

Colin Packham

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