This Month
Full speed ahead on Qld’s Taroom Trough oil amid fuel security fears
Oil from 3 kilometres underground in south-east Queensland could flow to Ampol’s Brisbane refinery within two years, helping cut reliance on imports.
Batteries, coal push out East Coast gas shortage to 2029
Delays in coal power station closures and a wave of battery storage projects have cut expected demand for gas, helping ease the imminent threat of a shortfall.
Stand up to whinging gas giants
Readers’ letters on a controversial drawing in The Australian Financial Review, gas tax, replacing Jacinta Allan, and self-managed superannuation funds.
We must avoid future fuel supply disruptions by planning now
The continuing economic impact of the energy crisis is unclear, but we should develop and implement a strategy to deal with the world as it is likely to be.
Why Australia must weaponise its LNG abundance now
Forget the old playbooks; the new world order demands economic statecraft. Australia must leverage its LNG exports immediately to secure its energy needs.
Supply cliff edge looms as Gulf’s final LNG shipments approach ports
Qatar’s LNG import terminals have reduced their operations to one-sixth of normal levels and will have stopped dispatching gas completely by the end of the month.
Gas buyers ‘hold breath’ amid fears local prices to track LNG surge
The worries among users have been exacerbated by last week’s spike in LNG prices after the damage to Qatar’s facilities which may take up to five years to fix.
LNG markets could face year-long turmoil after strike on Qatar facility
The missile attack on the plant could disrupt global supply for more than a year, as analysts tear up forecasts from earlier this year of a slump in prices.
Don’t tax away Australia’s gas security
The Gas Market Review presents an opportunity to reset national policy and restore certainty and investment confidence for Australian producers and users.
How the Iran war could hit your electricity bill this winter
Gas plays a pivotal role in our own domestic energy system, especially in winter. If it continues, this distant war may ripple into the Australian grid.
As gas prices spiked this local producer couldn’t find a buyer despite 66pc discount
Origin Energy’s Queensland LNG venture is offering gas to east coast buyers at about a third of the price currently prevailing in the global export market.
Darwin’s massive LNG ventures to fall under Labor’s gas reservation
Ichthys LNG’s Japanese backers moved the project to the Northern Territory almost two decades ago to escape a similar scheme that captures supply for local use.
February
Qld’s Taroom Trough emerges as Australia’s new oil frontier
The area quietly attracted energy giant Shell years ago and is now drawing a growing crowd of local explorers.
January
Fears Victorian consumers will pay for gas imports under ‘last resort’ plan
Gas producers in Victoria say the government should act to streamline gas project approvals before considering plans for underwriting LNG import terminals.
LNG importers cling to ambitions despite gas reservation scheme
Imported gas will still be needed in the south-east, even with a gas reserve, the ventures argue, rejecting suggestions that their projects are now redundant.
December 2025
ConocoPhillips makes second gas strike in Victoria’s Otway Basin
News of a second gas strike comes amid worries that the federal government’s domestic gas reservation plan may undermine new projects.
Manufacturers hail scheme to reserve east coast gas
Queensland LNG exporters will have to set aside 15 to 25 per cent of production for domestic customers under a program to be designed in detail next year.
Tensions flare among exporters in countdown to gas reserve
Queensland LNG ventures led by Origin Energy and Shell say there should be “no exceptions” for Santos’ GLNG in the east coast gas reservation system.
LNG giants make last ditch concessions to avert export controls
Santos’ GLNG venture has offered to cut purchases of gas from the domestic market and trim shipments as it attempts to head off far more onerous requirements.
November 2025
Santos hit by further delay on Narrabri gas ruling
A traditional owner appeal over the project’s approval was due to start on Tuesday but is now expected in March 2026 after the judge recused herself.
