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Gina Rinehart, the billionaire executive chairman of Hancock Prospecting, has long been critical of environmental regulation.

Hancock Prospecting inks $1.1 billion gas deal with Mineral Resources

Gina Rinehart will spend up to $1.1 billion to acquire Mineral Resources’ Lockyer gas project and half of its remaining onshore assets in WA, ending weeks of speculation.

  • Jesinta Burton

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The Ocean Onyx drill rig, used by oil and gas producer Beach Energy in the Otway Basin.

Shock downgrade hits new Victorian gasfield, worsening risk of shortfalls

The state’s first new gasfield to begin production in a decade, off the coast of Port Campbell, is now thought to hold much less gas than first forecast.

  • Nick Toscano
Andrew Forrest’s Port Kembla LNG import terminal project could kick off gas imports to Australia for the first time.

Australia exports gas. Are we going to import it too?

Experts say time has run out to develop new sources of supply to avert crippling shortages on the east coast.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Mitsui and Beach Energy’s Waitsia gas project has an exemption from the ban on exports of onshore gas.

Shares crash over building delays and cost blowout at troubled WA gas plant

Beach Energy shares plummeted in early trading on Monday, with its chief executive conceding extreme disappointment over quality issues in the late-stage WA project.

  • Peter Milne
Beach Energy is using the Ocean Onyx drill rig to develop new natural gas wells off the coast of Victoria.

Beach Energy to slash almost a third of its staff in cost-cutting push

The Kerry Stokes-backed oil and gas producer will lay off 30 per cent of its workforce and overhaul its executive leadership team in a bid turn the company around.

  • Nick Toscano
Santos is already the dominant gas producer in Western Australia, with 27 per cent of the market.

$80b oil and gas merger will beat competition concerns, says industry

Analysts say oil and gas majors Woodside and Santos can overcome competition concerns.

  • Simon Johanson
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Mitsui and Beach Energy’s Waitsia gas project in WA was hit hard by the collapse of its construction contractor Clough.

WA quietly shuts door on more exports of onshore gas

The WA government has quietly announced that no onshore gas fields will receive the economic advantage of access to international markets that the Waitsia field owned by Japan’s Mitsui and Kerry Stokes-backed Beach Energy gained in 2020.

  • Peter Milne
The Waitsia gas project in WA is among the Clough projects that has battled to keep workers.

Delays, cost blowouts hit Beach Energy’s LNG export dream

The Kerry Stokes-backed gas producer has flagged fresh troubles at its key growth project, just days after the abrupt exit of its CEO.

  • Nick Toscano and Peter Milne
Beach Energy is using the Ocean Onyx drill rig to develop new natural gas wells off the coast of Victoria.

Policy doubt could derail domestic gas projects, Beach Energy warns

The Kerry Stokes-backed Beach Energy has flagged ongoing challenges making investments in future east coast gas drilling projects.

  • Nick Toscano
Beach Energy is using the Ocean Onyx drill rig to develop new natural gas wells off the coast of Victoria.

Kerry Stokes’ Beach Energy floats domestic gas reservation

One of the eastern seaboard’s biggest gas suppliers has flagged support for new rules requiring gas producers to set aside certain volumes for domestic buyers.

  • Nick Toscano

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