Australian energy company Santos reported solid annual and quarterly earnings with steady cargo flows from Gladstone LNG in Queensland and from Papua New Guinea while legal hold-ups were removed to push forward with bringing new feed-gas to Darwin LNG from where only one cargo was shipped in the fourth-quarter.
Australia’s largest natural gas infrastructure company, APA Group, has signed a preliminary agreement to identify a pipeline route to connect the Galilee Basin in Queensland to Australia’s East Coast domestic gas market and to LNG export plants.
Australia Pacific LNG’s acquisition of the Ironbark coal-seam gas project in Queensland from Origin Energy has been approved by the country’s regulators who do not see the deal affecting East Coast domestic natural gas supply.