(Photo: Woodside Petroleum). Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is unlikely to proceed with the planned disposal of its holding in Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL) this year as it refuses to sell too low. Shell �eventually would sell the stake, it's ...

Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL), Australia's second-biggest oil producer, could pay as much as $13.1 billion for Oil Search to help boost production while its own LNG projects face delays, CIMB Securities said.

Several resource-sector stocks dropped in Sydney, with BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) losing 0.5%, and Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WOPEY) shedding 0.4%.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL), Australia's second-largest oil producer, said producing liquefied natural gas on a ship off the country's coast may be the fastest way to develop its Browse project.

PERTH--Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (>> Woodside Petroleum Limited) aims to finalize a US$1.2 billion a deal to buy a 30% stake in a big natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea by June, after talks with Israel were held up by a general election.

Banking stocks lost grip of gains, with Westpac Banking Corp. off 1.3%, and energy issues struggled, with Woodside Petroleum Ltd. down 0.2%. Mining stocks were mixed, with Rio Tinto Ltd. lower by 0.2%, but Newcrest Mining Ltd. up 2.6% after gold ...

American Depositary Receipts of Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL), Australia's second-biggest oil producer, sank 0.5 percent as crude dropped the most in three weeks yesterday.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s cash booty may be shrinking due to the imminent payment of a special dividend to shareholders, but that doesn't mean it's stopped sizing up potential acquisitions.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd is unlikely to pursue the use of floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology in its development of the Sunrise gas project in the Timor Sea and is instead leaning towards an onshore plant, according to The Australian ...

However, the future of those companies looks increasingly uncertain as customers such as BHP Billiton Ltd. and Woodside Petroleum Ltd. scale back their investments as projects reach completion. BHP's new chief executive, Andrew Mackenzie, pledged this ...