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On Monday Santos GLNG FEED & Execute team, along with their colleagues at Fluor, achieved a significant safety milestone. Read more

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Jessica Mauboy, with our Aboriginal Employment Advisor, Che Cockatoo Collins

Several Santos GLNG team members were star struck after meeting Aussie singer, Jessica Mauboy, at GOMA last Friday 8 February alongside world surfing champion, Joel Parkinson, and rugby great, Preston Campbell. Read more

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Gladstone’s PCYC (Police-Citizens Youth Club) will be given a much needed upgrade after receiving $250,000 in funding from Santos GLNG today. Read more

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Desert Country opens in Brisbane Read more

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Santos GLNG is saddling up as the Principal Sponsor of Queensland’s biggest bike ride - the newly-named Santos GLNG Brisbane to the Gold Coast Cycle Challenge. Read more

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On Saturday Sam Klaas, EQ Regional Manager, represented the Santos GLNG Project at the official opening of the new Roma Airport. Read more

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President Santos GLNG Mark Macfarlane and Santos GLNG Project staff members at one of the brand new homes.

Workers moving to Gladstone to settle and work on the Santos GLNG Project can move into new homes with 11 family houses now ready for occupancy. Read more

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Santos has again come to the aid of the local community following devastating floods in Queensland. Read more

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The Queensland Government today announced it would continue supporting Brisbane Festival's Santos City of Lights laser light show through 2013. Read more

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Two major CSG research and training initiatives were announced in Queensland yesterday. Read more

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In October some of the GLNG project's more adventurous employees took part in the Stock Up For Hope Charity Drove. Read more

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President Gladstone Central Committee on the Ageing Edgar Allen, Rotary's Assistant Governor Len Woodman and GLNG Regional Manager Garry Scanlan.

Santos were delighted to hand over the keys to a new medical service bus last week which will provide much needed assistance to Gladstone residents requiring specialist out-of-town treatment. Read more

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Brisbane to Bridge participants: (L-R) Greg Sykes, Cangie Wu, Camila Eviston, Huw Mason, Tom Massey, (front) Dee Walsh and Khalee Field.

Santos’ athletic proficiency was on show in September, with more than 270 of the company’s finest taking part in the Adelaide City-Bay and the Bridge to Brisbane fun runs. Read more

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Santos employees at the Brisbane to Bridge fun run.

Santos’ athletic proficiency was on show in September, with more than 270 of the company’s finest taking part in the Adelaide City-Bay and the Bridge to Brisbane fun runs. Read more

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Santos General Manager Upstream Operations Rob Simpson, Santos EQ Regional Manager Sam Klaas, QFRS South Western Region Assistant Commissioner Tom Dawson, QFRS Acting Regional Manager Shane Brumby and Santos Manager Social Performance John Phalen.

The Santos GLNG Project has invested $500,000 to purchase new fire fighting equipment for the Rural Fire Service to assist volunteer fire fighters in the Maranoa region in preparing for the fast approaching fire season. Read more

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EQ Regional Manager Sam Klaas, President Santos GLNG Mark Macfarlane, and Manager Social Performance John Phalen with the award.

The Santos GLNG project was recognised for its outstanding contribution to the wellbeing of Surat Basin communities by winning the inaugural Surat Basin Community Engagement Award at the Surat Basin Conference in Roma last week. Read more

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Mark MacFarlane, President Santos GLNG, flicked the switch on Sunday night to officially turn on the Santos City of Lights. Read more

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Michelle & Will Reay.

A landholder near Santos’ Ballera plant in Queensland has written to thank Santos and the Royal Flying Doctor Service for their role in helping save her son’s life after an accident in April. Read more

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About 160 year 10 girls, their teachers and career counsellors from throughout the Surat Basin took part in the 4Girls2 forum.

Encouraging young females to consider entering the coal seam gas industry was the aim of the 4Girls2 forum held recently in Miles and Toowoomba, Queensland, where Santos representatives Trina Beach, Cangie Wu and Alicia Harrington shared their career experiences. Read more

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Santos' team looking stylish as ever.

Santos employees participated in The NISSAN/BRW Corporate Triathlon on the Gold Coast. Read more

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Employees, gathered here at the GoMA entrance in their stylish blue Santos t-shirts, celebrated the success of GoMA’s 21st Century: Art in the First Decade exhibition.

Santos’ Brisbane employees gathered at the city’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) recently to celebrate the huge success of the gallery’s 21st Century: Art in the First Decade exhibition. Read more

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GLNG chief executive Mark Macfarlane with sailing enthusiast Barry Austin.

Recreational sailors on Gladstone Harbour will enjoy safer boating conditions as a result of a new partnership announced between the Port Curtis Sailing Club and GLNG. Read more

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An SES boat ferrying people to safety.

Santos has donated $25,000 to the Roma Combined Christian Churches Flood Appeal after floods hit the town again last week. Read more

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Warnie.

Enterprising employees at Santos’ Ballera operations have played a crucial role in the discovery of a rare species of katydid, which has become the first of its kind to go on display at the Australian Museum in Sydney. Read more

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Santos again joined the renowned Earth Hour initiative, switching off rooftop signs and non-essential lighting in its Adelaide and Brisbane offices last Saturday night. Read more

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Santos has announced a $4 million investment towards upgrading the Roma Airport terminal, improving Community and Allied Health services, and increasing housing support in the Roma region. Read more

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More than 40 Santos employees took time out of their past weekend to sizzle snags and work at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, as part of a re-opening event for the gallery's latest exhibition, staged to raise money for the state’s flood recovery. Read more

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Gladstone’s health and housing services will receive a major funding injection following the recent announcement that the GLNG project has been given final approval by its partners. Read more

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Mark Baker, Daniel O'Brien, John Balkwill, Michelle Lim, Peter McGrath, Jillian O'Pray and Colin Baumgartner helped clean up the underground storage unit belonging to Mark and Michelle and their neighbours.

The massive clean-up in Brisbane and surrounding areas is now in full swing, with many Santos employees stepping forward to demonstrate their care for workmates and others in the community who have been severely affected by the devastating floods. Read more

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Australian energy company Santos today confirmed it would donate $500,000 to help Queensland communities recover from the current extensive flooding across the state. Read more

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Rick Wilkinson, Santos Vice President Queensland and the Hon Anna Bligh MP, Premier of Queensland, with Olafur Eliasson's The Cubic Structural Evolution Project, 2004.

‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade’, currently showing at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, continues the award winning partnership between the Queensland Art Gallery and Santos. Read more

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Tony Ellwood, Director Queensland Art Gallert and Gallery of Modern Art, Jane Haley, CEO, AbaF, and Rick Wilkinson, Santos VP Queensland.

STVDIO, Australia's new arts TV channel, has produced this video about 2010 AbaF Partnering Award winners Santos and Queensland Art Gallery. Read more

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Local landholders in Queensland are seeing first-hand the benefits of treated coal seam gas (CSG) water with cattle thriving on forage crops planted as part of Santos’ Fairview Irrigation Project. Read more

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Adelaide's best mo-grower Scott Knoblauch with Santos' best fundraiser Adrian Masullo.

A record 106 Santos Mo Bros and Mo Sistas took part in Movember to raise awareness of men’s health, successfully raising over $31,000 for Beyond Blue and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. Read more

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Santos’ outstanding apprentices were recognised last night at the Apprentice of the Year Awards ceremony at the Santos Centre in Adelaide. Read more

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Footsteps team members Tony Lewis, Sam McMillan, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Corrick (absent) collecting their prizes from Andrew Antony.

A record 600-plus employees tested themselves and their pedometers in the 2010 Walk the Moomba Pipeline competition. Read more

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Santos' John Phalen (left) and Helen Simpson (right) with the Channel 7 team.

Queensland public affairs team hosted Gladstone’s Channel 7 news team on a tour of Santos’ Curtis Island site this week, as part of an ongoing stakeholder engagement plan in support of the project. Read more

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The Hermitage Dam adjacent to the managed aquifer recharge trial site.

A GLNG project study is investigating the possibility of introducing treated pure water into Roma’s existing underground aquifer which supplies the town’s water needs, including drinking water. Read more

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Ross Nielson, managing director, Nielson Properties (developer and manager of Santos Place); Tony Ellwood, Queensland Art Gallery director; and Rick Wilkinson, Santos’ VP Queensland.

The significant partnership between Santos and the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art received national recognition with the Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) Partnering Award. Read more

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Ying receiving her award from AGIT's Andrew Creek and Kay Whiting. Image courtesy Gas Today.

Santos’ Ying Luo received the best presentation award at the Australian Gas Industry Trust’s Gas Speak conference in Canberra. Read more

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Tony Ellwood, Director Queensland Art Gallert and Gallery of Modern Art, Jane Haley, CEO, AbaF, and Rick Wilkinson, Santos VP Queensland.

Santos has won the Business Partnering award from the Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) for Queensland, for its support of the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). Read more

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Trish Leisha, Margaret Kemp, Donna Sandow (front), Conie Coolwell and Santos' Craig Jones in the GLNG office.

The GLNG project yesterday joined Aboriginal traditional owners in Gladstone to sign the project’s seventh and final Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA), completing the largest set of agreements with Aboriginal groups in Australian resources history. Read more

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Santos' GLNG office in Gladstone is helping local students build their experience in the workplace as part of a program that seeks to make the transition from school to work easier. Read more

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Santos is helping authorities to protect unique outback fisheries, which have been boosted by the major floodwaters flowing through the region. Read more

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Interior of Santos Place.

Two companies involved in the construction of Santos Place were recognised at the Queensland Master Builders’ Brisbane Housing & Construction Awards recently. Read more

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Santos hosted a tent at Ecofest 2010 in Gladstone.

Santos' GLNG project hosted a tent at Ecofest 2010 in Gladstone on 6 June, with the local community out in droves at the event in the city’s Tondoon Botanic Gardens. Read more

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The running team: Belinda Wu, Rob Lord, Michelle Lim and Clayton Warner.

Santos achieved great results including two bronze medals at the 2010 Queensland Corporate Games recently, marking a successful debut for the company in that event. Read more

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Santos' Sam Klaas and Jamie Miller with Louise Goodall, Chiara Parker Price, Matika Laycock and Brandt Harland from Injune State High School.

Students from Injune State High School have joined forces with Santos to celebrate the planting of one million trees at Santos’ Fairview plantation north-west of Roma in Queensland. Read more

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Santos Place’s personal assistants celebrated International Administrative Professionals Day in style yesterday, with more than 20 taking a break from their desks to visit the exhibition Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones at the Queensland Art Gallery. Read more

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Maranoa Mayor Robert Loughnan, Santos' Sam Klaas, and Fr Stuart Webb from St Paul's

Santos has pledged $50,000 to a flood appeal in Roma, which comes in response to the town’s worst flooding in recorded history. Read more

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Santos Area Manager Queensland CSG Fields, Sam Klaas, Maranoa Regional Council Mayor, Robert Loughnan, and Santos Manager Community Engagement, John Phalen, at Roma Airport.

Santos has announced plans to partner with the Maranoa Regional Council and invest up to $2.5 million to upgrade the Roma Airport as part of its GLNG project. Read more

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Community Liaison Officer Jamie Miller on his back verandah.

Santos’ local Roma employees responded quickly to help people to safety as Roma endured its worst flooding in over 80 years, with a quarter of the its 1,500 residents affected. Read more

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The latest edition of the GLNG community newsletter, GLNG News, has been released, with information on consultation work, Gladstone harbour, LNG safety, and regional updates. Read more

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Santos and the University of Queensland have signed a memorandum of understanding to push research and education programs that will help develop Queensland’s coal seam gas industry. Read more

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ABC television’s Artscape program recently covered the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, of which Santos is Principal Partner. Read more

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Mayor Ray Brown (far left) with councillors, council staff and Santos representatives at the official opening. Photo courtesy WDRC.

In a joint effort with the local Moonie community and council, Santos has supported the creation of a display to preserve the history of the regional Queensland town, where Santos has operated since 1961. Read more

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Santos' Cathy Irwin and Jamie Miller in Roma.

Santos has officially opened its new community shop-front in Roma, to provide the local community with information on its coal seam gas operations in the region. Read more

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Santos President GLNG & Queensland Rick Wilkinson (left) takes a tour of the gallery with QAG Director Tony Ellwood

Santos has committed to a major five-year partnership with Queensland’s central cultural institution, the Queensland Art Gallery, making Santos the gallery’s leading corporate partner. Read more

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Photo by Catherine Lowe

The Stock Up for Hope charity drove, an event supported by Santos, has this year raised over $350,000 to support school chaplaincy services in regional Queensland communities. Read more

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The Santos men (top) and Santos women (bottom) battle it out in the Crewzing 2009 final

Two Santos teams finished third and fourth in the Crewzing Corporate and Community Regatta, held in Brisbane on 17 May. Read more

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CEO GLNG Operations Roger Kennett, Roma Mayor Robert Loughnan, President GLNG and Queensland Rick Wilkinson, and PETRONAS Australia CEO Majid Khalil at the plantation launch.

Santos is planting two million native trees in what will be one of Australia’s largest Chinchilla White Gum plantations, near Fairview in eastern Queensland. Read more

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Emma Yeoman, a senior coal seam gas completions engineer in Santos’ Brisbane office, was the overall runner-up in the Queensland Resources Council’s International Women’s Day awards for 2008. Read more

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This year will mark the 150th anniversary of the historic establishment of Queensland as an independent state. Read more

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