APACHE Energy is trying to stop a joint Federal-State inquiry from seeing certain documents it provided to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority investigation into the Varanus explosion.
06/05/2009
WA MINES and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore says the state government will prosecute Apache Energy for failing to maintain and repair the Varanus Island gas pipeline.
29/05/2009
APACHE Energy says it is confident its Varanus Island gas processing plant will return to partial production within a few months.
17/06/2008
THE WA Energy Minister Fran Logan will visit the Varanus Island gas plant, the site of an explosion which slashed his state’s gas supply by 30%.
06/06/2008
CLOUGH will assist Apache Energy with essential repairs to the Varanus Island gas plant, after an explosion on 3 June 2008 shut down operations at the facility.
16/06/2008
CLOUGH will be repairing the Varanus Island Gas Plant for Apache Energy, in contracts valued at around $60m.
17/11/2008
INCREASING media speculation over the cause of the gas pipeline explosions at Apache Energy’s Varanus Island facility has prompted a former engineering consultant to talk about common causes of such incidents.
19/06/2008
THE WEST Australian opposition has leaked a letter showing DOCEP expressed concerns about the state of Apache Energy’s gas pipelines eleven months before the crippling gas explosion.
18/07/2008
MINARA is making the best of a bad situation by carrying out plant maintenance following operations interruption due to gas shortage.
05/06/2008
THE WESTERN Australia Premier Alan Carpenter may launch a Royal Commission into the explosion at the Varanus Island facility.
04/08/2008