News Articles for BP Australia

The federal government's silence on news of BP's plans to close its Kwinana refinery speaks volumes.

Unions have called to nationalise the shuttering Kwinana refinery as players take sides in a fuel security debate, although most oil processed at the plant is already imported.

BP Australia is ceasing fuel production at its Kwinana refinery and will convert it into an import terminal, resulting in hundreds of job losses.

Qatar is moving to reclaim its place as the world's biggest LNG exporter, potentially jeopardising WA exports.

Oakajee's industrial zone could come to life as a hydrogen industry park in a plan to be announced by the state government as early as this week.

CIMIC Group's maintenance and turnaround specialist business has secured $180 million in work, including at BP Australia's oil refinery in Kwinana.

Chevron may have fired the starter's pistol on a major ownership reshuffle of the North West Shelf Venture, after it announced it would put its 16.7 per cent stake in the operation, which includes a 16.9 million tonnes per year LNG facility near Karratha, on the market.

The team behind a planned green hydrogen project to be built near Dongara are hoping to raise $1 billion by the end of the year, while BP is undertaking feasibility on a plant close to Geraldton, less than an hour's drive north.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has made its latest contribution to the national hydrogen industry with $1.71 million of funding to BP Australia to progress a feasibility study for its proposed renewable hydrogen and ammonia plant in Geraldton.

Woodside Petroleum is priming itself to begin design work on its $30 billion Browse LNG project by the end of the year, and has reiterated its intention for a final decision on construction during the first half of 2021.

Alaska is a long way from Western Australia, but what's just happened in the oil industry there could have a significant effect on plans to expand this state's liquefied natural gas industry.

Twelve big companies have pledged to lift their indigenous procurement to 3 per cent of their annual spend, seeking to match targets the federal and state governments have already set for their own agencies.

Handley Surveys has entered into a three-year agreement with BP to supply its 3D laser scanning services in Western Australia.

Two workers have been injured in a possible machinery malfunction at BP Australia's Kwinana Refinery.

State government owned Gold Corporation is Australia's third biggest manufacturing business, according to data published by Ibisworld today, with revenue of $18.9 billion in the year to June 2018.

BP is planning to drill its first well in WA in decades next year as it hopes to develop a Carnarvon Basin portfolio.

Woolworths has announced the sale of its 540 petrol stations to UK-based EG Group for $1.73 billion, months after BP pulled out of a deal to buy the fuel business.

Gas is flowing at Woodside Petroleum's Greater Western Flank-2 project, an extension of the North West Shelf Venture, with the company saying costs came in 30 per cent under budget.

SPECIAL REPORT: Chevron's $5 billion Gorgon phase two project announced in April might be the first in a wave of new oil and gas investments.

BP Australia has backed out of a deal with Woolworths to buy its petrol business more than six months after the consumer watchdog rejected the deal.

Property developer Garry Brown-Neaves has today formally unveiled a new 18 hectare commercial and industrial precinct within the existing Forrestdale Business Park, bordered by Ranford Road and Alex Wood Drive.

SPECIAL REPORT: WA's regulatory system is at the top of the hit list for onshore oil and gas juniors seeking to drill tenements in the state.