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Nikkei Asia
05-08-2025
- Business
- Nikkei Asia
Bid for Australia's Santos risks government veto over energy security
Santos' Barossa project in northern Australia is slated to begin producing gas in 2025. (Santos) RURIKA IMAHASHI SYDNEY -- The nearly $19 billion offer by a Middle Eastern-led consortium to buy Australia's Santos faces a risk of being blocked by the government over concerns about a leading energy company falling into foreign hands.
Nikkei Asia
04-08-2025
- Business
- Nikkei Asia
Japan set to land Australia frigate order in first warship export deal
Defense Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and other contractors head into final negotiations Japan proposed that Australia purchase an improved version of the Mogami-class frigate used by the Maritime Self-Defense Force. © Kyodo RURIKA IMAHASHI SYDNEY -- Australia is poised to acquire a Japanese-built frigate for its navy and aims to conclude a contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and others within the year, Nikkei has learned, in what would be Japan's first export of a warship.
Nikkei Asia
02-07-2025
- Business
- Nikkei Asia
Australia's green hydrogen ambitions in doubt as CQ-H2 plant stalls
Energy Project unable to move forward after conservative state government ends support The CQ-H2 project aimed to produce 300,000 metric tons of hydrogen annually using renewable energy from 2031. (Stanwell) RURIKA IMAHASHI SYDNEY -- Australia's largest project to produce green hydrogen with renewable energy is unable to move forward, hampered by a new conservative state government that is unwilling to shoulder the high costs. Multiple people familiar with the CQ-H2 project in Queensland that had been led by state-owned power company Stanwell confirmed it has stalled. Stanwell issued a statement saying it had "discontinued its involvement in the [CQ-H2] project and other hydrogen development activities."
