Views split on Woodside’s climate stance as investor vote looms

Views split on Woodside’s climate stance as investor vote looms

The company’s credibility will be put to the test this month when backers have their say on its emissions plan and the future of chairman Richard Goyder.

  • byNick Toscano

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How the US is exploiting the world’s oil cartel

Saudi Arabia and the rest of the OPEC+ cartel have been desperately trying to prop up oil prices over the past 18 months. But they have paid a heavy price.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
After years of promises on climate change,oil giants are backtracking

After years of promises on climate change,oil giants are backtracking

Fossil fuel majors are choosing profits over plans to bring a clean future closer.

  • byNick O'Malley
Despot,radical … peacemaker? The millennial prince and the Middle East ‘moonshot’

Despot,radical … peacemaker? The millennial prince and the Middle East ‘moonshot’

Reformer,tyrant or both? Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is reshaping his kingdom. What does it mean for the world? And how might he be key to a ‘moonshot’ Israel-Palestine peace deal?

  • bySherryn Groch
Audacious bid to dump old oil rigs on Bass Strait sea floor

Audacious bid to dump old oil rigs on Bass Strait sea floor

Enough material to build 110 Sydney Harbour Bridges is built into Australian offshore oil and gas rigs,and experts are now grappling with how to safely recover it.

  • byBianca Hall
Santos’ Barossa gas on track,pumps $1.3b back to investors

Santos’ Barossa gas on track,pumps $1.3b back to investors

The resources giant hiked its dividend despite a decline in revenue and production.

  • bySimon Johanson andPeter Milne
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The truck driver who became a billionaire

The truck driver who became a billionaire

Over the past six decades,Autry Stephens has worn nearly every hat in the oil industry.

  • byDevon Pendleton andKevin Crowley
Woodside shelves $80b merger with rival Santos

Woodside shelves $80b merger with rival Santos

The oil and gas giant says it has ended discussions with its smaller rival over a proposed tie-up of the two companies.

  • bySimon Johanson
When paddock to pump was a thing
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When paddock to pump was a thing

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Woodside chief says merger with Santos is ‘no certainty’
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Woodside chief says merger with Santos is ‘no certainty’

Chief executive Meg O’Neill has dampened expectations of a multibillion-dollar merger with rival Santos ahead of a battle to convince investors to back its climate plans.

  • byPeter Milne
Oil prices rise on Middle East tensions as US,UK launch Houthi airstrikes

Oil prices rise on Middle East tensions as US,UK launch Houthi airstrikes

Analysts at Westpac believe oil prices could rise more still as the airstrikes against the Yemeni rebel group continue.

  • byYongchang Chin