- Queensland Government and the State Resources Council establish the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy to address skills shortages in minerals and energy industries.
- Santos christens its FPSO, Modec Venture II, in Singapore prior to its positioning on the company’s Mutineer-Exeter oil fields in the offshore Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia.
- Great Artesian Oil and Gas confirms a new field gas discovery at Smegsy-1 wildcat in the Cooper Basin of South Australia.
- Santos’ Casino gas field development in the offshore Otway Basin is granted formal Federal Government environmental approval and is expected on stream in first quarter of 2006.
- ExxonMobil awards front end engineering design (FEED) contract for the proposed PNG-Queensland gas pipeline project to a joint venture of KBR and WorleyParsons.
- GasNet commissions its 443km Telfer natural gas pipeline from Port Hedland to Newcrest Mining’s Telfer gold mine in the northern Western Australia.
- Anzon Energy/Beach Petroleum group secures the FPSO Crystal Ocean for development of its Basker/Manta oil fields offshore Gippsland Basin of Victoria beginning mid 2005.
- Sydney Gas Company completes its Rosalind Park coal bed methane gas plant at Campbelltown, near Sydney.
- WMC increases its gas sales agreement to take PNG gas for its Olympic Dam copper/uranium mine in South Australia from the previous 12-20 petajoules a year to 30 petajoules a year for 20 years.
- Lakes Oil recovers oil from its Wombat-3 onshore well in the Gippsland Basin of Victoria.
- CS Energy increases its stake in the Kogan North coal bed methane project from 7.5% to 50% giving the company access to 60 petajoules of gas for 15 years delivered to Swanbank power station at Ipswitch, Queensland.
- The North West Shelf gas project participants and Guangdong Dapeng LNG Co finalise a sales and purchase agreement for gas to China beginning with first cargo due in 2006.
- Victoria Petroleum finds oil in its Mirage-1 wildcat in the Cooper Basin of South Australia.
- West Australian Government creates two new marine parks in the Montebello-Barrow Island region off Western Australia.
- Santos, Origin Energy & Delhi Petroleum agree to sell their combined 30% interest in the Carpentaria Gas Pipeline to Australian Pipeline Trust for $98 million.
- Karoon Gas finds hydrocarbons in Megascolides-1 wildcat in the far western sector of the Victorian onshore Gippsland Basin.
- Tap Oil finds gas at its Boojum-1 well in the offshore Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia.
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- Santos finds two new Queensland Cooper/Eromanga Basin gas fields with Yangtse-1 and Galex-1 within 40km of Balera gas plant
- Pipeline owner, Alinta signs agreement with fertilizer manufacturer Orica for transport of up to 1.7 petajoules per year of gas in the Queensland Gas Pipeline till 2016. This complements Orica’s existing contract scheduled to expire in 2006.
- Woodside Energy signs agreement with aluminium producer Alcan for purchase of 44 petajoules per year of gas from the Blacktip gas field in the Bonaparte Gulf for delivery to the Gove alumina refinery in north east Arnhem Land.
- Apache Energy’s Longtom-2 appraisal in the offshore Gippsland Basin confirms significant gas discovery.
- Enertrade completes the Moranbah to Townsville gas pipeline to carry coal bed methane to the Townsville power station.
- Origin Energy group finds gas in its Trefoil-1 wildcat in the Bass Basin off northern Tasmania.
- Arc Energy brings Xyris gas field on stream in onshore North Perth Basin for gas deliveries to Perth and south west Western Australia.
- BHP Billiton exits its last holding in the Timor Sea with the sale of its interests in the Laminaria/Corallina oil fields to UK-based Paladin Resources.
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- Arc Energy acquires a further 12% in Jingemia oil field in onshore Perth Basin of Western Australia from Hardman Resources to take it to 33.141% interest.
- Bass Strait Oil Company lists on ASX.
- Beach Petroleum acquires 9% equity in Anzon Energy and secures 25% farm-in to the Basker/Manta/Gummy oil and gas fields in the offshore Gippsland Basin of Victoria.
- PNG-Queensland gas pipeline, operated by ExxonMobil, proceeds to front end engineering and design stage.
- Victoria Petroleum’s Ventura-1 wildcat finds oil in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin of South Australia.
- Bass Strait Oil’s Moby-1 wildcat finds gas in offshore Gippsland Basin of Victoria.
- Santos-operated Casino gas field in offshore Otway Basin of Victoria receives formal go-ahead for $200 million development.
- Innamincka Petroleum finds oil in Juniper-1 wildcat in Cooper/Eromanga Basin of South Australia.
- Sydney Gas Company is granted its third production lease in the Sydney Basin coal bed methane project in New South Wales.
- The consortium of Diversified Utility & Energy Trusts, Alinta and Alcoa of Australia finalises bid to buy the Dampier-Bunbury natural gas trunkline for $1.86 billion.
- Stuart Petroleum’s Arwon-1 wildcat finds oil in Cooper/Eromanga Basin of South Australia.
- The Oilex group’s Rookwood South-1 well begins an extended oil production test in the Surat Basin of Queensland.
- Arc Energy’s Xyris South-1 finds gas in onshore Perth Basin of Western Australia.
- Santos group’s Reg Sprigg West-1 finds oil in Cooper/Eromanga Basin of South Australia.
- Santos group’s Martha-1 finds gas in offshore Otway Basin of Victoria.
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- Tap Oil’s Cyrano-1 wildcat finds oil and gas in offshore Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia.
- BHP Billiton selects an area 4km south of Onslow in Western Australia as preferred site for a proposed LNG plant to liquefy gas from offshore Scarborough field.
- Beach Petroleum finds two new oil pools in Christies field in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin of South Australia.
- Arc finds oil at Centella-1 wildcat onshore Perth Basin of Western Australia.
- Oilex recovers oil from Rookwood South-1 wildcat in Queensland Surat Basin and opens up a new trend west of existing fields.
- Queensland Gas Company is awarded a licence for the planned 14km gas pipeline from the Berywyndale South coal seam methane field in the Surat Basin of Queensland to the existing Roma-Brisbane trunkline.
- Santos signs a second gas contract for 58 petajoules of gas supply over 20 years from its John Brookes field in the offshore Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia to Energy Development. The gas will be liquefied in a new plant at Karratha and trucked to four new gas-fired power stations in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia.
- CH4/BHP Billiton joint venture delivers its first commission gas from the Moranbah cola bed methane project in the Bowen Basin of Queensland to Enertrade. Commissioning will continue for another six months.
- Perth-based LNG Ltd signs a Memorandum of Intent to supply an unnamed Indian industrial group with up to 1000 tonnes a day of LNG for 15 years. LNG Ltd is a specialist in mini LNG plants and has plans to source stranded gas from isolated fields and production that would be otherwise flared.
- Mosaic Oil finds oil and gas in Rockhampton High-1 wildcat in the Permian reservoirs of the Surat/Bown Basins of Queensland.
- Origin Energy and Pan Pacific Petroleum agree to sell their interests in the Tubridgi onshore gas field in Western Australia plus associated facilities to BHP Billiton for a total of $7.5 million.
- Arrow Energy signs Letter of Intent to provide gas and electricity to AJ Bush & Sons, a large industrial customer in southeast Queensland, based on gas from Arrow’s nearby Lindesay gas discovery.
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- Great Artesian Basin Oil & Gas Corporation/Enterprise Energy group finds gas in Smegsy-1 wildcat in South Australian Cooper Basin.
- Santos finds new oil pool in Gimboola West-1 well in Cooper/Eromanga Basin of southwest Queensland.
- Apache Energy and Santos sign agreement to supply 120 petajoules of gas from the John Brookes field, offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia to Newcrest Mining over 15 years beginning December 2004.
- Molopo Australia completes agreement to sell its share of gas from the first two stages of the Mungi coal bed methane project in Bowen Basin of Queensland to Origin Energy.
- Innamincka Petroleum finds gas in Cooper Basin of South Australia with Crocus-1 wildcat.
- Santos increases its share in the offshore Patricia/Baleen and Sole gas fields in Victoria’s Gippsland Basin to 50% with acquisition of Trinity Gas interests.
- Lakes Oil’s Wombat-2 appraisal flows gas to surface at 2.2 million cubic feet a day on test of the tight Strzelecki Formation reservoir after fraccing program.
- Northern Territory Government establishes new Onshore Gas Developments Taskforce to secure competitively priced gas for power generation and to guide development of gas-based manufacturing industry in the Darwin region.
- Australian Pipeline Trust completes purchase of CMS Energy Corporation’s interest in Parmelia and Goldfields gas pipeline assets in Western Australia for $206 million.
- ChevronTexaco group finds major gas accumulation in Wheatstone-1 wildcat offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia.
- Development begins on Apache Energy’s Bambra oil and gas field offshore Carnarvon Basin.
- BHP Billiton pre-selects a site near Onslow in Western Australia for its proposed LNG facilities to take gas from future development of the offshore Scarborough gas field on the Exmouth Plateau.
- Origin Energy/Arc Energy find oil in Centrella-1 wildcat, onshore North Perth Basin, Western Australia.
- Beach Petroleum group’s Christie-2 development well significantly increases the size of the Christie oil field in the Cooper Basin of South Australia.
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- Gas from the North West Shelf JV’s fields begins flowing into the 4th LNG train at Burrup Peninsula gas facilities for first time.
- Eastern Star Gas’ Coonarah gas field in Gunnadah Basin of New South Wales comes on stream to supply Wilga Park power station near Narrabri.
- Yolla-4 development well intersects new petroleum reservoir in Yolla gas/condensate field in Bass Basin offshore Tasmania.
- Council of Australian Governments (CoAG) signs the Australian Energy Market Agreement making a firm commitment from all governments – federal, state and territory – to streamline and improve quality of regulation in national energy market.
- Scalybut-1 stepout well confirms presence of hydrocarbons in west flank of Woollybutt oil field in Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia.
- Ravensworth-2 appraisal extends 2003 Ravensworth oil discovery in Carnarvon Basin 28km offshore Exmouth in Western Australia.
- Queensland Gas Company has final certification of 378 bcf (389 petajoules) proved, probable and possible gas reserves at its Berwyndale South coal bed methane field in Surat Basin of Queensland.
- Drillsearch Energy acquires OMV Australia’s interests and operatorship of the Turtle and Barnett undeveloped oil fields in the Bonaparte Gulf for $1million plus 5% overriding royalty to OMV in event of future production.
- ACCC approves Caltex/Woolworths petrol retail alliance in Australia.
- Queensland Energy Resources announces plans to wind down Stage 1 pilot plant of the Stuart oil shale project in Queensland and focus on design of Stage 2 commercial scale plant.
- Origin Energy purchases Santos’ onshore Victorian Otway Basin interests for $25.75 million, including Mylor, Fenton Creek, Tregony, Seamer, McIntee, Lavers, Croft and Naylor gas fields and Heytesbury gas processing plant.
- Perth-based explorer Elixir Petroleum lists on ASX.
- Great Artesian Basin Oil flows gas/condensate from its Paranta field in Cooper Basin of South Australia.
- Apache Energy begins development drilling of Bambra oil and gas field in Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia.
- Sydney Gas Company begins 70-well development drilling program as part of Stage 2 of Camden coal bed methane gas project 50km south west of Sydney in New South Wales.
- Australian Pipeline Trust acquires CMS Energy Corporation’s interests in Parmelia and Goldfields gas pipelines in Western Australia for $206 million.
- Arrow Energy’s Tipton West coal bed methane field in Queensland is certified with 1086 petajoules of gas in proven, probable and possible reserves categories.
- Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Company signs sales and purchase agreement to extend its purchases of North West Shelf gas: 0.5 million tones of LNG per year between 2009 and 2014 and 0.925 million tones LNG per year between 2015 and 2023.
- North West Shelf JV celebrates 15 years of LNG production at Burrup Peninsula processing facilities.
- New geothermal (hot rocks) explorer, Adelaide-based Petratherm, lists on ASX.
- Oil Search signs agreement with Syntroleum Corporation of US to carry out a feasibility study for a barge-mounted gas-to-liquids facility in the Gulf of Papua based on PNG gas reserves.
- Australia signs maritime boundary agreement with New Zealand in Tasman Sea and adjacent areas of the south west Pacific and Southern Oceans.
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- Greenvale Mining and Esperence Minerals take controlling interests in Nagooring and Lowmead oil shale deposits in Queensland.
- Mosaic Oil signs contract with CS Energy to supply 21 petajoules of gas over five years from its Queensland fields.
- Merlin Energy signs Northern Territory’s first Land Use Agreement for petroleum exploration for work in Pedirka Basin.
- Stuart Petroleum’s Harpoono-1 wildcat finds oil in South Australian Cooper/Eromanga Basin.
- Mosaic Oil receives production and pipeline licences for its Waggamba field in the Surat Basin of Queensland.
- Arrow Energy signs an MOU for supply of 15 petajoules of coal seam gas over five years to BP’s Bulwer Island refinery in Brisbane from January 2006.
- Prime Minister John Howard launches the Federal Government’s National Energy Policy in Canberra.
- A review of the Casino gas field doubles gross gas proven and probable reserves from 140 petajoules to 285 petajoules.
- Arc Energy/Origin Energy find gas at Apium-1 wildcat in onshore Perth Basin of Western Australia.
- Woodside Energy terminates agreement to sell its interest in Victorian offshore Gippsland Basin Kipper gas field after the government refuses to renew a retention licence over the field.
- Gas flows into the North West Shelf Joint Venture’s fourth LNG train on the Burrup Peninsula for the first time.
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- South West Queensland gas producers sign Heads of Agreement with Origin Energy to swap gas production – Origin to deliver gas to SW Producers at Roma and SW Producers to deliver gas for Origin’s use at Moomba.
- Apache Energy group’s Linda gas/condensate field in offshore Carnarvon Basin comes on stream via Varanus Island facilities.
- Eleven offtake contracts signed for a total of $25 billion worth of gas from NW Shelf to China underpinning a deal signed in 2002 between NW Shelf JV partners and Guandong LNG Project.
- Independent consultants certify probably gas reserves of 83 petajoules and additional possible reserves of 157 petajoules at Arrow Energy’s Kogan North coal seam gas field in Surat Basin of Queensland.
- Sydney-based Australian Petroleum Investments acquires Delhi petroleum via purchase of Gradav (Vic) Limited.
- Federal Government grants Methanol Australia environmental approval to construct and operate a 2.5 million tonne/year LNG production and export facility at Tassie Shoals in the Timor Sea adjacent to the company’s proposed methanol project.
- Apache Energy and BHP Billiton find oil at Stickle-1 wildcat in the Exmouth Sub-basin off Western Australia.
- Woodside Energy-led Otway Gas Group commits to $1.1 billion development of the offshore Thylacine and Geographe gas fields in the Victorian and Tasmanian sectors of the offshore Otway Basin.
- Origin Energy group receives production licence for the Jingemia oil field in the onshore Perth Basin of Western Australia.
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- Arc Energy finds commercial gas at Xyris-1 onshore Perth Basin.
- Mosaic Oil finds economic gas reserves in new reservoir at Waggamba field in Surat Basin.
- Hastings Fund Management buys Epic Energy’s Australian gas transmission assets (other than the Dampier to Bunbury pipeline) for $663 million.
- Woodside Energy and TXU sign sales agreement for Woodside’s share of gas from the Geographe/Thylacine fields offshore Otway Basin of Victoria.
- Sandefer’s subsidiary Queensland Energy Resources completes acquisition of majority of assets of Southern Pacific Petroleum, including the Stuart Oil Shale Project.
- Queensland Gas Company’s Argyle coal seam methane field in Surat Basin of Queensland receives certification of 178-200 billion cubic feet of proved, probable and possible gas reserves.
- Magellan Petroleum Australia is granted a 21-year extension to gas production operations at Palm Valley field in Northern Territory after agreement reached with Central Land Council.
- New Energy Research Centre earmarked for Perth in partnership between CSIRO, University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology.
- Apache Energy finds oil in Monet-1 wildcat offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia.
- Epic Energy’s Dampier-Bunbury gas trunkline placed in receivership.
- Woolworths and Caltex conclude arrangements for national expansion of their fuel discount offer to 450 retail outlets around the country.
- Singapore Power buys Australian gas and power and pipeline assets of TXU for $5.1 billion.
- Sunshine Gas’s Overston-2A appraisal well in Surat Basin is cased and suspended as a new field gas producer.
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- Hardman Resources sells Perth Basin interests, including interest in Woodada gas field, to Arc Energy.
- Western Power extends existing gas contract with N W Shelf Joint Venture to include 700 petajoules over a period of up to 20 years from 2006.
- Federal Government accords Major Project Facilitation status to Trans Territory Pipeline Project and the Woodside Blacktip Gas Project.
- Woodside gives green light for start of $1.48 billion Enfield oil field development.
- Shell’s Geelong refinery in Victoria marks its 50th year of operation.
- New LNG carrier – Northwest Swan – delivered to N W Shelf consortium for the Dampier to Japan service.
- New Sustainable Energy Centre opened at Murdoch University in Perth.
- Mungi coalbed methane field in North Queensland comes on stream.
- $500 million SEA Gas pipeline opens between Port Campbell in Victoria and Adelaide in South Australia.
- Alinta Ltd buys the Australian gas and power interests of Duke Energy for $1.7 billion.
- Yolla field gas production platform installed on site in Bass Strait.
- Arc Energy buys Bounty Oil’s interest in the Perth Basin Woodada field and takes its ownership to 100%.
- Methanol Australia signs joint development agreement with Air Products & Chemicals of USA for development of Tassie Shoal Methanol Project in the Timor Sea.
- Woodside sells 40% of Enfield oil field to Mitsui of Japan for $US464.5 million.
- Great Artesian Oil & Gas finds oil and gas in Paranta-1 wildcat in Cooper Basin of South Australia.
- First shipment of condensate from Bayu-Undan field in Timor Sea completed.
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- Sandefer Capital Resources’ subsidiary Queensland Energy Resources buys shale oil producer Southern Pacific Petroleum.
- Bayu-Undan liquids project comes on stream in Timor Sea Joint Development Zone.
- Second North Rankin-Burrup Peninsula gas pipeline begins commissioning.
- Casino gas field in offshore Otway Basin of Victoria begins front end engineering and design.
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- Fire at Santos’ Moomba plant shuts down gas flow from South Australian Cooper Basin.
- Lakes Oil finds significant gas field at Wombat prospect onshore Gippsland Basin, Victoria.
- Innamincka Petroleum finds gas at Yarrow-1 and oil at Flax-1 in South Australian Cooper Basin.
- NW Shelf group signs up additional LNG sales for Chubu Electric Power Company in Japan.
- Great Artesian Oil & Gas finds gas at Nutmeg-1 in Cooper Basin of South Australia.
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