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We've been following the progress of the Santos LNG project for since our own launch. 

On 20 February, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh opened Santos' new Gladstone office, which will be the regional base for the world's first major Coal Seam Gas (CSG) to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project.

This demonstrates their commitment to the Gladstone region and is a clear endorsement of their confidence in the business environment in Queensland.

The Gold is still in those hills and we have immediate vacancies for the following:

Piping Supervisors and Foreman

Do you have exceptional supervisory skills and a wealth of knowledge in the piping /construction game???  Then submit your CV, Attention: Georgie Feodorov to careers@unitedgroupltd.com or phone on 08 9499 0499.

Trades

IKM Testing with its 500 employees is a part of the IKM Group which has 1500 employees.  IKM Testing specialises in providing pipeline services to the oil and gas industries. Whilst the head office is located in Stavanger, Norway, they have subsidiaries located in the United Kingdom (Newcastle and Aberdeen), Canada, Spain, Australia and Singapore. 

BHP Billiton has given the green light to the development of the $2 billion Pyrenees oil project off the coast of Western Australia. The Pyrenees Development consists of five separate fields, these being, Crosby, Ravensworth, Stickle, Harrison and Moondyne. The fields are located in close proximity to each other some 25km northwest of North West Cape, in northern Western Australia. Pyrenees, which is a joint venture between BHP Billiton and Apache Corporation, is expected to produce about 96,000 barrels of oil per day over a 25 year period.

Work on the Woodside $A11.2b project has been underway since December 2006 when the Board approved initial funding for long lead items and site preparation. Site preparation has been underway since January 2007, after Woodside received environmental and heritage approval to begin work on the project's storage tanks and export facility. Preparation works for the gas processing plant, where the production train will be located, also began.

Inpex Holdings Inc., Japan's largest oil explorer, selected the Maret Islands off Australia's northwestern coast as its preferred site for the liquefied natural gas project. The plant will use Inpex's 100 percent owned Ichthys field in the Browse basin north of Broome about 200 kilometres offshore in water depths between 90m and 340m. The field is estimated to hold more than 9.5 Tcf of natural gas and 312 million barrels of condensates. In September 2006, French operator Total bought a 24% stake in the project.

Apache is progressing with a standalone floating production, storage and offloading vessel on the Theo-Van Gogh discoveries in the deep-water Exmouth sub-basin. The field is in 350m water depth.

The owners are operator Apache with a 52.5% working interest, and Japan's Inpex with 47.5%. The Van Gogh oil field has reserves of roughly 59 million barrels, with production forecast to last 12 years.

The Crux field was acquired by Nexus in January 2006 and lies in 190 metres of water in the Timor Sea approximately 700 km from Darwin and 600 km from Broome. Crux is 110km south-west of the producing Challis oil field.

In 2006, Nexus sold the rights to the gas in the Crux field to Shell for US$40 million (A$53 million). The agreement provides for Nexus to be able to execute its condensate recycle project until 31 December 2020 at which time Shell will take ownership of the permit and will be able to extract the gas and any remaining condensate.

Arrow Energy is a major Australian integrated energy company focused on the development of coal seam gas throughout eastern Australia and Asia. As Australia's largest coal seam gas acreage holder, the company is now driving growth by investing in downstream projects and international markets to secure higher margin sales beyond wholesale gas sales for power generation.  They are experiencing a period of tremendous growth and are looking for people who want to help build and share in a future rich with opportunities.

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