Santos

Days out from hearing a second challenge to a native title tribunal’s decision over Santos' Narrabri gas project in New South Wales, a judge has disqualified herself from the case over her associate’s previous work for the energy giant.

Several Apache Corporation units have failed to block Santos from withdrawing admissions in a long-running fight over $83 million in tax credits related to Apache's $2.1 billion sale of certain assets, with a judge finding Apache’s prejudice arguments were “significantly overstated”.

Santos has failed to convince a judge that it should not provide documents relied on by NOPSEMA to approve the company’s environmental plan for its Reindeer gas field in judicial review proceedings.

Energy giant Santos has won a dispute over its Gladstone LNG project, described by a court as "litigation on a monumental scale", securing a $692 million judgment against engineering firm Fluor with the help of four silks.

Santos has secured final approval from the offshore energy regulator for its undersea Barossa gas field, dubbed by an environmental group as a "climate bomb".

The Environmental Defenders Office has rejected bankruptcy concerns after paying gas company Santos $9 million in legal fees.

The Environmental Defenders Office can't dodge a subpoena by Santos seeking material to back a bid for full indemnity costs in a failed case over a pipeline for the $5.6 billion Barossa gas project.

Santos is seeking to wrangle further documents from the Environmental Defenders Office to support its bid for costs orders against the law firm, telling a court there must have been "glaring deficiencies" in the standard of its services in running its challenge to construction of a pipeline for the energy company's $5.6 billion Barossa gas project.

The Australian Energy Regulator has secured a $2.75 million penalty in a case against oil and gas company Santos alleging record-keeping failures in breach of the National Gas Rules. 

Activist organisations are seeking to challenge orders to hand up communications with the Environmental Defenders Office in its failed case against Santos over the $5.6 billion Barossa gas project, arguing there was no legitimate forensic purpose for the material sought.