Seismic shift in oil and gas sector
Australia’s oil and gas industry faces its biggest shake-up in a generation with a wave of M&A activity poised to reshape the sector.
Oil Search
Dump Alaska asset in merger: analysts
Analysts at Morgan Stanley believe Santos should sell off Oil Search’s Alaska business should it succeed in a merger deal.
Woodside the wild card amid Santos-Oil Search
One of the questions being asked after Santos’s $22bn bid for Oil Search is where Woodside Petroleum fits into the picture.
How Santos lit the fuse on mega gas deal
After six months of talks, a high stakes mega merger between Santos and Oil Search is out in the open.
Gallagher needs to add value to takeover proposal
The long-awaited Santos bid for Oil Search is now public and for his next trick Kevin Gallagher needs to put some value on the table.
Santos merger proposal aims to create $22bn ‘regional champion’
Santos has ambitions to be one of the 20 largest companies on the ASX, proposing a $22 billion merger with Oil Search.
Oil Search slippery slope paves solid ground for Santos
If Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher pulls off Oil Search and delivers upside he will be worth every cent of his $6m incentive pay.
Santos’ $22bn merger plan with Oil Search a long time coming
Santos is speculated to have been interested in a deal with Oil Search for at least three years, but now it has finally shown its hand.
Santos stalks a wounded Oil Search
Oil Search faces shareholder pressure to hold talks with Santos over a $23bn merger creating Australia’s biggest oil and gas producer.
Santos holds merger talks with Oil Search
Energy company Santos is understood to have made approaches to Oil Search about a merger deal in the past six months.
ASX ends down after 1.2% dip
Stocks recovered nearly all their early losses by lunch but closed in the red. Blow for Crown, BHP record quarter, JB Hi-Fi surges, Santos in Oil Search merger offer.
Short stay lucrative for Wulff
Coming after veteran Oil Search boss Peter Botten was never going to be an easy task.
Oil Search rocked as CEO departs
Oil Search has been rocked by a fresh crisis after chief executive Keiran Wulff abruptly resigned following a series of complaints about his bullying behaviour.
Oil Search chaos raises M&A spotlight
Oil Search’s latest executive disaster puts the company in play at a critical juncture for Australian oil and gas.
Oil Search faces holding pattern in messy CEO exit
Keiran Wulff’s abrupt departure leaves the company in a holding pattern.
Boss quits after ‘unacceptable’ behaviour
An oil and gas giant has been grilled over the shock departure of its boss, asked why it ‘shred’ his reputation if he quit due to ill health.
ASX biggest fall in four weeks
ASX 200 suffers biggest one-day fall in the past four weeks, down 0.9% at the close. Oil Search boss quits. Super funds booming. Rents rising fast. Altium, Nick Scali respond to reports.
‘Bad AGL’ could go private amid ESG pressure
For Peter Botten, the former longtime chief of oil and gas company Oil Search, the AGL demerger is driven by a double whammy of pressure.
UBS was ‘greedy for fees’ in PNG
Former Oil Search boss Peter Botten says UBS may have grown greedy for the fees charged on a controversial deal in Papua New Guinea.
Searching for the future in a net zero world
Oil Search faces a big climate test as it weighs whether to sanction a $US3bn ($3.8bn) Alaskan oil project.
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