- CEO
- Elizabeth Morton Westcott
- Full Time Employees
- 4,693
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Exploration & Production
- Address
- Mia Yellagonga Perth WA Australia 6000
- IPO Date
- Nov 18, 1996
- Business
- Woodside Energy Group Ltd, Australia's largest independent oil and gas company founded in 1954 and headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, engages in the exploration, evaluation, development, production, marketing and sale of hydrocarbons including liquefied natural gas (LNG), pipeline gas, condensate, natural gas liquids (NGL) and crude oil across Oceania, Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Caribbean; it operates major assets such as the North West Shelf Project, Pluto LNG, Wheatstone and Julimar-Brunello, Bass Strait, Pyrenees FPSO, Macedon, Scarborough, Sangomar, Trion, Calypso, Browse, Wildling, Atlantis, Woodside Solar, Sunrise, Troubadour and Pluto Train 2 projects as well as the Liard basin, while advancing new energy initiatives encompassing hydrogen projects like H2Perth, H2TAS and H2OK alongside lower-carbon services and ammonia production via the Beaumont New Ammonia Project. The company rebranded from Woodside Petroleum Ltd in May 2022 following its merger with BHP's petroleum business, expanded globally through the US$1.2 billion acquisition of Tellurian Inc and its Driftwood LNG project in October 2024 which evolved into the Louisiana LNG project approved for final investment in April 2025 with three trains targeting 16.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG production and first gas in 2029, sold a 40% stake in Louisiana LNG Infrastructure LLC to Stonepeak for US$5.7 billion in April 2025 retaining a 60% majority interest while securing a BP natural gas supply agreement for up to 640 billion cubic feet starting 2029 and pursuing additional partners including potential interest from KUFPEC. Recent developments include receipt of final Australian Government approval for the North West Shelf Project Extension enabling operations beyond 2030 and processing of additional gas resources, agreement to assume operatorship of Bass Strait assets from ExxonMobil Australia targeted for 2026 completion unlocking up to 200 petajoules of contingent sales gas, divestment of Greater Angostura assets to Perenco for US$259 million cash in July 2025, long-term LNG sales and purchase agreements with PETRONAS for 1 million tonnes per annum from 2028 over 15 years and a heads of agreement with BOTAŞ for approximately 0.5 million tonnes per annum from 2030 over nine years primarily from Louisiana LNG, a memorandum of understanding with Japan Suiso Energy and The Kansai Electric Power Co for a liquid hydrogen supply chain centred on H2Perth, advancement of Scarborough Energy Project to 91% complete targeting first LNG in second-half 2026, Beaumont New Ammonia to 97% complete for late-2025 production, Trion to 43% complete for 2028 first oil and Louisiana LNG to 19% complete, alongside strong operational performance with Q3 2025 production of 50.8 million barrels of oil equivalent and full-year guidance revised upward to 192-197 million barrels of oil equivalent.