Origin Energy

As a leading Australasian integrated energy company, Origin participates in most segments of the energy supply chain including:

Natural gas and oil exploration and production 
Electricity generation
Energy retailing

Queensland Gas Company
 

QGC - a BG Group business - is a leading Australian coal seam gas explorer and producer focused on developing its world-class reserves for domestic and international supply.

The business, which was founded in 2000 as a junior explorer, employs more than 320 people in the development of gas projects including Queensland Curtis LNG - one of Australia's largest capital infrastructure projects.

Queensland is QGC's heartland. The business also holds interests in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania, in a total of more than 150,000 sq km of acreage.

QGC is strategically positioned to meet rising demand for its abundant coal seam gas, cleaner power and ample water. The strengths of the business are underpinned by Australian and Queensland government policy, firm long-term contracts, the move to cleaner, more efficient fuel sources and a planned national carbon trading scheme.

In February 2008, BG Group and QGC announced an alliance to co-operate in coal seam gas exploration and production, the development of domestic market opportunities and the construction of a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Curtis Island off the coast of Queensland. In October 2008, QGC and BG Group reached agreement on a 100% acquisition of QGC.

QGC has dedicated a significant proportion of its fast-growing coal seam gas reserves to meeting Australia's energy needs. These reserves are projected to supply about 20% of Queensland's domestic gas market in 2009. QQC is scheduled to join the National Electricity Market in 2009 when the business will supply coal seam gas to its new 140 MW Condamine Power Station.

Strong and beneficial relationships have been established by QGC in the communities in which it operates. We respect our communities and neighbours, and strive to minimise the impact of operations on communities and the environment.

QGC invests in applications for large volumes of coal seam water, which has the potential to help drought-affected communities, towns and farms in the Surat Basin.

The business hosts and sponsors the award-winning Drama At The Gasfields, an annual family day featuring a production by La Boite Theatre Company at QGC's Windibri homestead near Chinchilla in southern Queensland.

The Queensland Curtis LNG Project is seeking approval to produce up to 12 million tonnes of LNG a year for export from Curtis Island, near Gladstone. The projects initially involves two production units, known as trains, each producing 7.5 million tonnes of LNG a year, a 380km pipeline from the gas fields to Gladstone, and significantly enhanced production from the reserves
in the Surat Basin. About 4,400 new jobs are expected to be created over the lifetime of the project. A final investment decision for the Queensland Curtis LNG Project is anticipated in 2010, with first gas expected in late 2013.

Santos Gas

Santos is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company with high quality assets and projects throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

The company supplies over 20% of eastern Australia’s domestic gas and produced 54.4 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2008. Santos has the largest Australian exploration portfolio by area of any company – 192,000 square kilometres.

Santos is developing a multibillion-dollar project to build an LNG facility at Gladstone, Queensland – the world’s first project to convert coal seam gas to LNG on a large scale. We are already a producer of LNG through the Darwin LNG project, which has been exporting to Japan since 2006.

Santos has more than 1,700 Australian-based employees working across its operations, and offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Gladstone and Roma. The company has 170 staff in Jakarta, and country offices in Port Moresby, Hanoi, New Delhi and Bishkek.

Santos Ltd is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX Ltd) - ordinary shares code STO; preference shares (FUELS) code STOPB.

At 31 December 2008, Santos had a total market capitalisation of approximately $8.7 billion, making it one of Australia’s Top 30 companies.

Arrow Energy is a leading Australian integrated energy company focused on the development of coal seam gas throughout eastern Australia and Asia. Our worldwide interests span coal seam gas developments, pipeline assets, electricity generation and an investment in a proposed liquefied-natural gas (LNG) development.

Arrow Energy is one of Australia's top 100 publicly-listed companies and has a current market capitalisation of approximately AUS$2 billion. As Australia's largest coal seam gas acreage holder, the company is now driving profitability by investing in downstream projects and international markets to secure higher margin sales.

Arrow has access to more than 65,000 km2 of coal seam gas exploration tenements close to Queensland's three key markets - Townsville, Gladstone, and Brisbane. Our four producing projects currently account for more than 20 percent of Queensland's overall gas production. We are continuing to optimise production at these fields while advancing a long queue of development projects as we relentlessly pursue our growth strategy.

The company has the rights to dispatch power from the Yabulu Power Station in Townsville and the Daandine Power Station near Dalby. Arrow has also partnered with ERM Power to jointly develop the 450 MW Braemar 2 Power Station. Arrow's net generation capacity will be 375 MW when the project is completed later this year, 2009.

Arrow's gas infrastructure assets include the Moranbah Gas Processing Facility, and the rights to develop the 440km Central Queensland Gas Pipeline (CQGP) between Moranbah and Gladstone. The company is currently planning the development of the 450km Surat Gladstone Pipeline to facilitate the supply of gas from our Surat Basin projects to a planned LNG export facility in Gladstone.

The company's alliance with Royal Dutch Shell will facilitate the connection of our vast domestic gas resources with a high value international marketplace as well as support our growing business presence in the key Asian growth markets of China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

ICON ENERGY

Icon Energy is proud to be at the forefront of the efforts to meet the energy needs of Australia and globally. The company aims to be a safe, world class gas and oil producer. It is committed to using techniques and processes that minimize green house gas emissions, with a minimum of long-term environmental damage.

We believe the shareholder wealth is inextricably linked with a concern for the society at large, for the environment in which we operate, and through the application of ethical business practices.

Bow Energy

Bow Energy is an exploration company focussed on the discovery of commercial oil and gas fields with projects in several of Australia's producing Basins.

Bow Energy is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX Code - BOW).

Blue Energy

Blue Energy Limited ("Blue Energy") is a rapidly evolving energy exploration company, strategically positioned with abundant Coal Seam Gas (CSG) assets throughout Queensland to meet the rising demand for cleaner power.

Blue Energy has developed an extensive CSG exploration portfolio, with an asset base of eight CSG operated petroleum exploration permits. Blue Energy also has interests in conventional assets in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin as well as offshore Papua New Guinea.

Blue Energy's headquarters are based in Brisbane, Australia, with an experienced board and technical team who have the necessary skills and experience to execute its exploration strategy.