BHP BILLITON says it is assessing the viability of five “major” petroleum projects in Australia.
27/10/2008
RAPP-IT says BHP Billiton recently used its Rapp-it Pipe Repair Bandage to fix a vital pipe after an unexpected leak in the main trunk line allowed over 24ML of water to flow from the bore fields.
02/12/2009
BHP BILLITON has revealed that a desalination plant will have to be built to support the proposed expansion of its Olympic Dam uranium mine in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) released on 1 May 2009.
04/05/2009
BHP Billiton began production at the $1.16b Neptune oil facility on 8 July 2008, over six months later than originally scheduled.
09/07/2008
BHP BILLITON has once again shut down production and evacuated personnel from its Neptune project as Hurricane Ike approaches the Gulf of Mexico.
11/09/2008
BHP BILLITON says production at its 50,000 barrel-a-day Neptune facility will remain ‘shut-in’ until Hurricane Gustav has degraded to an acceptable level.
05/09/2008
NEXUS Energy has been awarded an extensive exploration permit in the offshore Browse Basin, Western Australia by the state’s government.
19/11/2008
WOODSIDE Petroleum has scrapped a billion-dollar plan to build a LNG import terminal off the coast of California, as a result of changing US domestic gas market conditions.
19/01/2009
APACHE Energy says partial production from the Varanus Island gas processing plant will resume ahead of the 15 August deadline.
05/08/2008
ENERPAC and WA engineering company AME have worked together to provide the fabrication and testing of a tilt table for the Pyrenees offshore oil and gas project, said to have been delivered ahead of scheduled time.
16/02/2010