Casie Hough, ABC Rural Royal Dutch Shell global chief executive Ben van Beurden says the company will be slowing down on new developments. This means the development of Arrow's greenfield liquefied natural gas project at Curtis Island in Queensland is "off the table". The decision has been blamed on falling oil prices, with Shell cutting spending by $15 billion over three years. While this has implications for the Curtis Island Development, Shell spokesman in Aus...

John McCarthy ADANI has signed up Korea's POSCO as an equity partner and builder of its $1 billion T0 coal terminal at Abbot Point. 
 
The terminal will service the $16 billion Carmichael megamine in the Galilee Basin which has yet to get its final board approval or a mining lease. However, the company is moving ahead with the project and expects to start development of the Northern Galilee Basin Rail project early next year. It also maintains it can produce first...

John McCarthy ARROW Energy continues to progress its upstream development of coal seam gas infrastructure despite not having an LNG plant to send it to. 
 
The Shell and PetroChina subsidiary said it would move to the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of its Bowen Basin pipeline to Curtis Island. No price was put on the development of the pipeline but others from the Surat Basin to Curtis Island have cost at least $1 billion and QCGs parent BG Group sold its Sur...

Nobody loves change. So we understand some of the commentary about the new Property Occupations Act which commences on Monday December 1st. The Act has some new provisions around auctions and there’s been some confusion over what it means.
It’s time for some clarity and to reassure sellers and buyers that auction will continue as a popular sale method for many years to come. After December 1st a real estate salesperson handling an auction property can, and usually will, provi...

Sourced from GasFields Commission Queensland The GasFields Commission joined a group of Darling Downs landholders at a special briefing in Toowoomba this week to discuss the implementation of the State's new regional planning laws. The meeting was hosted by Deputy Premier, Jeff Seeney and Agriculture Minister, John McVeigh with a group of about 30 landholders in attendance. The Regional Planning Interests Act came into effect from June this year to provide a more balanced way ...