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Woodside, unions remain at odds over wages at Australia's largest LNG facility
Woodside Energy said "positive progress" was being made on wage disputes at Australia's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility even as a union alliance said key differences remained ahead of further talks next Wednesday. Woodside's North West Shelf, along with Chevron's Australian LNG operations of Gorgon and Wheatstone, supply about 10% of the global LNG market. About 99% of workers at offshore platforms that supply gas to the Woodside facility have voted to authorise the union to take industrial action, with any strike potentially disrupting shipments and sending prices for the super-chilled fuel higher. ... (full story)