The West Australian Minister for Mines and Petroleum Norman Moore says he is keen to release a report into the Varanus Island gas explosion but legal advice is preventing him from doing so. The ...

On 3 June, a fire at the Varanus facility knocked out all of Apache's Australian gas production, along with that of its co-venturers Santos, Tap Oil and Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company.

A long-awaited report on the Varanus Island gas explosion is highly critical of energy company Apache and industry regulators. An explosion on the island in 2008 cut WA's gas supply by 30 per cent for ...

The Varanus Island Repair Project has reached a critical milestone with the recommencement of gas sales to the domestic market and associated condensate production. The Varanus Island Repair Project ...

Just days after a gas leak forced the closure of a Santos platform off the West Australian coast, the state’s safety regulator found 10 other platforms around Varanus Island were in a state of ...