Woodside overhaul
June 21 (LNGJ) - Woodside Energy, the Australian LNG operator, has revised its leadership structure to deliver the next phase of strategy after the merger with BHP’s petroleum business. The new structure takes effect from August with key appointees having Executive Vice President and other titles and split Australian and International Chief Operating Officer roles.
The new team under Chief Executive Meg O’Neil includes Chief Financial Officer Graham Tiver; COO Australia Liz Westcott; COO International Daniel Kalms and Chief Commercial Officer Mark Abbotsford. Other posts include Technical and Energy Development Julie Fallon; Strategy Andy Drummond; and External Affairs Tony Cudmore. CEO O’Neil thanked departing members Shiva McMahon and Matthew Ridolfi.
Woodside gas deal
Dec 7 (LNGJ) - Woodside Energy, the Western Australian LNG operator, said its project company in the Bass Strait in the southeast Australian state of Victoria signed a domestic gas sales agreement with Qenos, the nation’s only manufacturer of world-class polyethylene and polymers. Gas production from the Bass Strait currently meets about 40 percent of Australian East Coast domestic gas demand.
Woodside said it domestic gas supply deal is with the Qenos manufacturing facilities at Altona in Victoria and at Botany Bay in New South Wales. “This agreement ensures affordable gas supply to an important large-scale industrial consumer at a time of increased volatility and uncertainty in East Coast energy markets,” said Mark Abbotsford, Woodside Executive Vice President for Marketing and Trading.
Australia’s Woodside ships first LNG cargo to Dutch port of Rotterdam for German utility Uniper
Woodside Energy, the operator of two LNG export plants in Western Australia, has shipped an LNG cargo to the Dutch Gate import terminal in Rotterdam on behalf of Germany’s Uniper Global Commodities.
LNG operator Woodside names executive team in Perth and Houston on completion of BHP energy merger
Woodside Petroleum, the leading LNG plant operator in Western Australian, has named the new executive leadership team in the run-up to the completion in the second quarter of Woodside’s merger with the spun-off oil and gas business of Anglo-Australian commodities company BHP.
