Woodside Bullish On Australian Pluto LNG Expansion Prospect

MELBOURNE, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Woodside Petroleum expects to reveal plans for expanding its prized Pluto LNG project and connecting it to the North West Shelf LNG complex soon, its chief executive, Peter Coleman, said on Thursday. Talks with the owners of the Scarborough gas resource off Western Australia, led by ExxonMobil Corp, as well […]

Woodside to Drill At Least Four Wells Off Myanmar in 2017

Australian energy company Woodside said it is planning to boost its drilling campaign offshore Myanmar with the potential commercial viability of recent gas finds in the area. Earlier this year, Woodside discovered 32 metres of net gas pay in the Myanmar Block A-6 Shwe Yee Htun-1 exploration well and 62 metres net gas pay in […]

Woodside Reports Higher Contingent Resource from 2 Myanmar Discoveries

Australia’s Woodside Petroleum Ltd. reported Friday an increase in its best estimate contingent resource (2C) by 83 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) to 4,481 MMboe following the announcement of two gas discoveries offshore Myanmar in first quarter 2016 (1Q 2016). Woodside announced the discovery of 105 foot (32 meter) net gas pay (increased from […]

Woodside in second gas discovery offshore Myanmar

Block AD-7 is in the Bay of Bengal, approximately 100 km off the west coast of Myanmar. Water depth at the Thalin-1A well location is 836 m. The well reached a total depth of 3,034 m, referenced from the rig rotary table. Following drilling, wireline logging was conducted and confirmed the presence of a gas […]

Woodside scores drilling success with gas find off Myanmar

Woodside Petroleum looks well placed to capitalise on its early entry into the exploration hotspot of Myanmar, reporting what chief executive Peter Coleman called an “encouraging” gas discovery at its first well. The find at the Shwe Yee Htun-1 exploration well appears of relatively modest size, at 15 metres of “net gas pay”, but it […]

ANZ and Woodside lead the investment in Myanmar

It’s closing in on midnight when our taxi pulls up outside a run-down apartment block on the edge of central business district of Myanmar’s commercial hub and former capital Yangon. The attendant lounging on a chair out front, shows us up a short flight of stairs to the entrance; down the end of the corridor, […]