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Largest Energy Production Public Companies in Australia
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Woodside Energy, Santos, Origin Energy, AGL Energy and Viva Energy Australia.
 | Incorporated in 1954 and named after the small Victorian town of Woodside, Woodside's early exploration focus moved from Victoria's Gippsland Basin to Western Australia's Carnarvon Basin. First LNG production from the North West Shelf came in 1984. BHP Billiton and Shell each had 40% shareholdings before BHP sold out in 1994 and Shell sold down to 34%. In 2017 Shell sold its entire shareholding. Woodside is one of the most LNG-leveraged companies globally. | $22 | +31% | $42B | $50B | 3.8x | 5.3x | ||
| Santos was founded in 1954. The company's name is an acronym for South Australia Northern Territory Oil Search. The first Cooper Basin gas discovery came in 1963, with initial supplies in 1969. Santos became a major enterprise, though over-reliance on the Cooper Basin, along with the Moomba field's inexorable decline, saw it struggle to maintain relevance in the first decade of the 21st century. However, the stage was set for a renaissance via conversion of coal seam gas into LNG in Queensland and conventional gas to LNG in PNG. | $6 | +2% | $18B | $24B | 4.8x | 7.2x | ||
| Origin Energy is a major vertically integrated Australian energy utility. Its energy retailing business is the largest in Australia, with about 4 million customers and a 33% market share. Its portfolio of base-load, intermediate, and peaking electricity plants is one of the largest in the national electricity market, with a capacity of 6,000 megawatts. Origin also operates and owns 27.5% of Australia Pacific LNG, which owns large coal seam gas fields and LNG export facilities in Queensland. | $8 | +1% | $13B | $16B | 1.3x | 7.3x | ||
| AGL Energy is one of Australia's largest retailers of electricity and gas. It services over 4 million retail electricity and gas accounts in Australian, or about one-third of the market. Profit is dominated by energy generation, underpinned by its low-cost coal-fired generation fleet. Founded in 1837, it is the oldest company on the ASX. Generation capacity comprises a portfolio of renewable, peaking, intermediate, and base-load electricity generation plants. | $6 | -12% | $4B | $7B | 0.7x | 5.0x | ||
| Viva is Australia's second-largest vertically integrated refined transport fuel supplier. We rate Viva as the second-most-significant pipeline owner, and at approximately 1,155 locations, Viva supplies the third-largest number of retail sites in Australia behind Ampol at approximately 1,985 and BP at 1,400.Vitol bought Shell's Australian downstream operations in 2014, and renamed them Viva Energy. Viva subsequently bought Shell's Australian aviation operations and a 50% investment in Liberty Oil. In 2016, Viva sold (and leased back) a portfolio of its retail sites to Viva Energy REIT and listed Viva Energy REIT on the ASX. It has since sold its entire REIT stake for AUD 734 million. Viva acquired OTR Group in 2014 for AUD 1.2 billion bringing over 200 South Australian stores. | $2 | +4% | $3B | $7B | 0.3x | 13.5x | ||
| Beach produces oil, gas, and gas liquids from numerous joint ventures in the onshore Cooper and Eromanga basins. Beach merged with Cooper Basin joint-venture partner Drillsearch Energy Limited in March 2016, which increased equity production to about 10 million barrels of oil equivalent. This more than doubled to over 20 million barrels of oil equivalent following the successful purchase of Lattice from Origin Energy in 2018. The average field life is around seven years based on forecast production and 173 mmboe of proven and probable reserves. We credit less than 15 years, assuming some additional conversion of 2C contingent resources into reserve category with drilling. Shale gas resources are blue-sky. | $1 | -17% | $2B | $2B | 1.4x | 2.9x | ||
| Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd is engaged in geothermal energy and lithium exploration and production in Europe. The company's Lionheart Project is an integrated lithium and renewable energy project that produces battery-quality lithium from naturally heated subsurface brine in the Upper Rhine Valley, to deliver a local source of sustainable lithium for the European battery industry, with a co-product of renewable energy for local heating needs. It has developed an aluminate-based sorbent, VULSORB, to produce lithium from subsurface brine and harnesses geothermal energy from its operations in the Upper Rhine Valley. The company has three operating segments based on geographical location: Germany, which derives maximum revenue, other European countries, and Australia. | $2 | +12% | $1B | $591M | 69.3x | (64.0x) | ||
| Karoon produces around 8 million barrels of oil equivalent annually from its wholly owned Baúna field in Brazil’s offshore Santos Basin and around 3.5 mmboe from 30% owned Who Dat in the US Gulf. The company acquired Baúna from Petrobras in 2020 and steadily increased production via well interventions and new developments. Field life is approaching five years based on proven and probable reserves of 35 million barrels at the end of December 2024, though this excludes a further 98 million barrels in 2C contingent resources that have the potential to increase life further. We credit a life of more than 10 years, assuming conversion of some 2C contingent resources into the reserve category with drilling. There are also prospective untested targets within Karoon’s permits. | $1 | +2% | $986M | $1B | 1.8x | 2.9x | ||
| Bannerman Energy Ltd is an operator of a uranium exploration company intended to be the next generation of uranium suppliers. As part of a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS), the company plans to develop large open-pit mining operations, as well as establish Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). | $3 | +10% | $539M | $467M | - | - | ||
| Boss Energy Ltd is a multi-asset energy company focused on advancing the restart of its wholly owned Honeymoon Uranium Project, in South Australia. The company holds interests in the Alta Mesa Uranium Project in Texas, USA. It has two reportable segments: Australian uranium operations and Alta Mesa operations. | $1 | -73% | $378M | $333M | 6.2x | (42.4x) | ||
| Amplitude Energy Ltd is engaged in exploring, developing, and producing natural gas and to produce low-cost oil. It is an exploration and production company that generates revenue from gas supply to Southeast Australia and low-cost Cooper Basin oil production. The company holds a portfolio of gas supply contracts and it has gas-focused acreage and assets in the Southeast Australian energy sector, including well-located reserves and resources in the Otway and Gippsland basins. | $1 | -32% | $330M | $357M | 1.9x | 3.3x | ||
| Strike is operator across all 3,000 square kilometers of its Perth Basin acreage and has grown its net gas reserve and resource position to become large at 520 PJ. It has also achieved first production from its Walyering gas field. Walyering’s intended 33 terajoules/d of gross production generate material cash flows, albeit with a short life. Strike is targeting up to four gas fields ultimately coming online, including via power station developments. In addition to Walyering, these include South Erregulla, West Erregulla, and Ocean Hill. | $0 | -23% | $295M | $323M | 6.2x | 11.8x | ||
| Horizon Oil Ltd is engaged in petroleum exploration, development, and production. The company operates in three segments: China development, New Zealand development, and Australia development. It generates maximum revenue from the China development segment, which is involved in developing and producing crude oil from the Block 22/12-WZ6-12, WZ12-8W and WZ12-8E oil field developments and in the exploration and evaluation of hydrocarbons within Block 22/12. The New Zealand development segment is currently involved in developing and producing crude oil from the Maari/Manaia oil field development, and the Australia development segment is engaged in developing and producing oil and gas from the Mereenie OL4 and OL5 oil and gas fields. | $0 | +13% | $255M | $264M | 2.5x | 11.6x | ||
| Beetaloo Energy Australia Ltd formerly Empire Energy Group Ltd is an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on onshore long-life oil & gas fields. The progression of exploration & appraisal work programs in its wholly-owned and operated exploration tenements & applications located in the high petroleum-prospective Northern Territory McArthur Basin including the Beetaloo Sub-Basin. It sells oil and gas products to owners of domestic pipelines, utilities, and refiners located in Pennsylvania and New York. It operates in three segments- United States Operations, Northern Territory, and corporate. The majority is derived from United States operations segment, which includes all oil and gas operations located in the USA. | $0 | +13% | $253M | $258M | 59.4x | (21.6x) | ||
| Omega Oil & Gas Ltd is an Australian exploration company unlocking oil and gas resources in Queensland’s Taroom Trough, an emerging energy frontier. The company is advancing the Canyon Project within this under-explored region of the south Bowen Basin. Appraisal activities include drilling and fracture stimulation of the Canyon-1H well, and data acquisition at Canyon-2 confirming an extensive petroleum system. The company holds 100% interest in Authority to Prospect 2037 and 2038 located west of Tara. It is also conducting a strategic review of the Bennett Oil project in Petroleum Lease 17 near the Surat Basin and engaging with potential farm-in partners. | $0 | +136% | $243M | $212M | 3784.1x | (59.5x) | ||
| Jadestone Energy PLC is an independent oil and gas production and development company focused on the Asia-Pacific region. It owns interests in the Montara project and the Stag oilfield, offshore Western Australia. In addition, it holds exploration and pre-development assets in Vietnam and other parts of Southeast Asia and has executed agreements to acquire the Maari project, offshore New Zealand, and the Lemang PSC, onshore Sumatra, Indonesia. The geographic focus of the business is Australia followed by Southeast Asia. | $0 | +60% | $241M | $374M | 0.9x | 6.6x | ||
| LGI Ltd is engaged in the recovery of biogas from landfills, and the subsequent conversion into renewable electricity and saleable environmental products. | $2 | -1% | $229M | $221M | 8.4x | 17.9x | ||
| Comet Ridge Ltd is an Australian energy company focused on the development of natural gas for the supply-constrained east coast Australian market. It has tenement interests and a suite of prospective projects in Queensland. The company's flagship Mahalo Gas Hub area (Mahalo Gas Project) consists of high-quality natural gas resources with low CO2 and competitive production costs. The Mahalo Gas Hub contains gross 2P (Reserves) and 2C (Contingent Resources) of 676 Petajoules close to the Gladstone LNG export and domestic market precinct, as well as gas transport infrastructure. Additionally, the company also holds various permits in the eastern part of the Galilee Basin, and an exploration licence (PEL 427), in the northern Gunnedah Basin, New South Wales. | $0 | -7% | $111M | $111M | - | - | ||
| Frontier Energy Ltd is a renewable energy company whose principal activity is the development of a large-scale integrated renewable energy facility and is involved in mineral exploration. Its project include the Waroona Renewable Energy Project located in Australia and the Superior Lake Zinc and Copper project in Canada. | $0 | +29% | $90M | $87M | - | - | ||
| Aura Energy Ltd is an Australian based minerals company. The company is engaged in the exploration and evaluation of uranium, vanadium and gold and base metals in Mauritania and Sweden. Its project includes Tiris Uranium and Haggan project. Its operating segments include: Uranium; Vanadium; Gold and Base Metals and Corporate. | $0 | -31% | $87M | $84M | - | (7.8x) | ||
| Invictus Energy Ltd is an Australia-based independent oil and gas exploration company focused on high-impact energy resources in sub-Saharan Africa. Its asset portfolio consists of the Cabora Bassa Project in Zimbabwe. The company has one reportable segment, being the exploration of oil and gas in Zimbabwe. | $0 | +35% | $84M | $81M | - | - | ||
| QPM Energy Ltd is engaged in capturing and making beneficial use of waste coal mine gas. The Company operates an integrated energy business including gas production and electricity generation. QPM earns revenue from the supply of gas to customers and the generation and dispatch of electricity into the National Electricity Market. The Company is an independent gas producer and is focuses on the Moranbah Project. The Company also owns the Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub (TECH) Project which aims to develop a modern and sustainable refinery to produce nickel, cobalt and High Purity Alumina (HPA). | $0 | -31% | $62M | $119M | 1.5x | 3.5x | ||
| Kinetiko Energy Ltd is an Australian company engaged in coal bed methane exploration. The project of the company includes the Amersfoort project. The company has one operating segment being gas exploration in South Africa. | $0 | -29% | $45M | $43M | - | - | ||
| Vivopower International PLC is a sustainable energy solutions B Corporation specializing in electric solutions for customized and ruggedized fleet applications, battery and microgrids, solar, and critical power technology and services. The company’s core purpose is to provide turnkey decarbonization solutions that help customers progress toward net-zero carbon status. VivoPower operates across five reportable segments: Electric Vehicles, Sustainable Energy Solutions, Solar Development, Digital Assets, and Corporate Office, with personnel and operations in Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Philippines. | $2 | -42% | $40M | $55M | - | - | ||
| Central Petroleum Ltd is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company focused on supplying natural gas and oil to domestic markets. It operates the onshore gas production fields in the Northern Territory, particularly in the Amadeus Basin, producing gas and oil from reserves. The company serves power stations, mine sites, energy wholesalers, and retailers prominently in central and northern Australia. Its operations include exploration, development, and production activities with a focus on conventional gas resources. Central Petroleum also explores for alternative energy resources like helium and hydrogen within its tenements. Revenue is predominantly generated from natural gas production and sales within Australia. | $0 | -- | $36M | $34M | 1.1x | 2.4x | ||
| PTR Minerals Ltd is an Australian copper and critical minerals explorer focused on the discovery of deposits in South Australia. The company is advancing a portfolio of mineral exploration projects. Its projects include the Muckanippie Project, Woomera and Arcoona Iron-Oxide Copper-Gold Projects, Mabel Creek Iron-Oxide Copper-Gold Project, Comet Rare Earth Project, and Comet Gold Project. | $0 | -67% | $28M | $16M | - | - | ||
| Macallum New Energy Ltd is an oil and gas exploration company. The company is focused on the assessment and future development of its exploration projects located in the onshore Northern Perth Basin in Western Australia. | $0 | -- | $15M | $16M | - | - | ||
| Median | $0 | +1% | $253M | $264M | 2.2x | 3.5x |
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