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Press Release and Guest Commentary: John Robert
With export markets' changing expectations, investors and industry beware
31 March 2021 (IEEFA Australia): Santos’ proposed offshore Barossa gas field near Darwin, Northern Territory has the unfriendly tag of having more carbon dioxide than any gas currently made into LNG, finds a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The gas contains so much CO2 that most of it […]
Guest Commentary: Peter Milne
Much of the cost will fall on the Australian government via the tax system
Australia’s US$40.5 billion clean up bill for offshore oil and gas wells and facilities will cost US$40.5 billion, with half of the work starting this decade, according to a report produced with the support of major Australian operators. Equipment to be removed includes 57 platforms with a total weight of 755,000 tonnes, equivalent to the […]
Bruce Robertson
Embedding gas infrastructure for the next 30 years remains a poor investment decision
Santos’ controversial Narrabri gas project in northern New South Wales received final federal government approval yesterday, despite a record number of objections to the project. In investment there are three factors bankers and investors assess before making an investment. They look at environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and this project clearly fails the social […]
Bruce Robertson
With LNG worse for the climate than coal, Australia must adjust to our export markets shrinking
With polluting emissions from LNG 13% higher than gas, and Australia’s primary export destinations targeting net zero emissions and therefore less dirty LNG, Australia’s gas-led recovery is looking increasingly like the Australian government is ‘flogging a dead horse’. Australia’s core export markets for LNG, coal and iron ore – Japan, South Korea and China – […]
Bruce Robertson
Japan will cease to be a major buyer of Northern Territory gas
Ask anyone in business what the first rule of thumb is and they’ll tell you straight: you have to listen to what your customers want. Simple, right? But that’s exactly what two of the biggest names in the Northern Territory gas industry, Origin and Inpex, are failing to do. They’re pushing to open up huge […]
Bruce Robertson
Origins AGM highlights the troubled past and uncertain future of Australia’s LNG industry
Origin Energy’s annual general meeting last week (20 October 2020) highlights the appalling share price performance of the Australian energy company over the last decade. Investors have lost 69% in shareholder value at a time when the market was rising. Well may Gordon Cairns, the outgoing chairman, lament that Origin’s share price does not reflect […]
Press Release and Bruce Robertson
29 September 2020 (IEEFA): Australian gas consumers will likely see higher, rather than lower gas prices if Santos’ Narrabri gas fields are approved due to the distance the gas must travel to reach consumers on infrastructure that will need to be built. Gas/LNG financial analyst Bruce Robertson concludes the proposed Narrabri gas fields are uneconomic […]
Bruce Robertson
The Australian government’s new gas announcements are flogging a dead horse
This podcast was produced by ABC Signal. Listen here. The Australian government is pitching gas as the economic and energy solution, but not everyone is on board. Last week Prime Minister Scott Morrison gave the energy sector an ultimatum: if the sector can’t come up with a plan for an extra 1000 megawatts of energy […]
Bruce Robertson
Overproduction has led to higher prices and lower consumption in Australia
With their announcement this week of subsidies for a major new gas plant in the Hunter Valley, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Energy Minister Angus Taylor have made it clear: whatever the roadmap, there’s only one destination – gas. It is dressed up as a measure for job creation, cheaper gas for consumers and energy […]
IEEFA
The Guardian: A group representing investors that collectively manage more than US$47 [trillion] in assets has demanded the world’s biggest corporate polluters back strategies to reach net-zero emissions and promised to hold them to public account. Climate Action 100+, an initiative supported by 518 institutional investor organisations across the globe, has written to 161 fossil […]
IEEFA: Santos’ Barossa gas field emissions create major risks for shareholders
With export markets' changing expectations, investors and industry beware31 March 2021 (IEEFA Australia): Santos’ proposed offshore Barossa gas field near Darwin, Northern Territory has the unfriendly tag of having more carbon dioxide than any gas currently made into LNG, finds a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The gas contains so much CO2 that most of it […]