LNG

Woodside Petroleum Chief Executive Peter Coleman said that after the company’s strong performance in the past year it was looking forward to sanctioning more than US$30 billion of new liquefied natural gas projects.

Woodside Petroleum, the operator of the North West Shelf and Pluto LNG export plants in Western Australia, has awarded four contracts for front-end engineering and design activities for the proposed Scarborough natural gas project to underpin expansion at the Pluto facility on the Burrup Peninsula.