Western Australia

2012 Great Bike Ride for Charity

The 2012 Santos Great Bike Ride for Charity attracted another big turnout for Perth cyclists, with almost 4000 riders converging on Langley Park in the Perth CBD to take part in either the 106km, 53km, or the 10km Family ride around the Swan River. Read more

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Maher and Anderson at the official opening of Devil Creek

Two integral figures in the development of the Devil Creek domestic gas project, Apache Energy Managing Director Thomas Maher and Santos VP WA&NT John Anderson, were honoured for their work in the domestic natural gas industry, receiving the Western Australian Gas Industry Development Award for 2012. Read more

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Santos John Anderson and WA Environment Minister Bill Marmion

A record crowd gathered on grassy slopes for the launch of the 2012 Kings Park Festival last Sunday, with winners of the 2012 WA Music Industry Award for best funk band, the Brow Horn Orchestra, kicking off the Festival’s Santos Live Sundays. Read more

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Santos Staff at Quiz Night: From Left Chandran Vigneswaran; Rochelle Youngson, Courtney Barker and Rikke Petersen.

A cheque for $34,500 – raised at the second Santos Oil and Gas Industry Charity Quiz in June – was presented to Homeless Connect at the Petroleum Club of WA AGM last night. Read more

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Santos is delighted to announce it has renewed its partnership with the Santos Great Bike Ride for Charity, which will see the company remain as naming rights sponsor for another three years. Read more

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Te​am Santos: Pugh, Beevers, Robertson, Telford.

Staff from the Santos Perth office have put their foot to the pedal in the gruelling Gibb Challenge in support of community partner, the Clontarf Foundation. Read more

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Women's Champions: the Santos Fearless Divas.

Santos teams competed in both the Perth and Adelaide legs of the 2012 Nissan Corporate Triathlon Series. Read more

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Attracting fantastic crowds, including several world and Olympic cycling champions, the Smokefree Perth Criterium series confirmed its place as Western Australia’s premier criterium event. Read more

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Frances White, Santa Maria College, The Impulse Buyer, 2011, polymer clay, digital print on paper.

Australian energy company Santos is delighted to announce its new partnership with the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Year 12 Perspectives art exhibition, a collection of works from the state’s most talented school graduates. Read more

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The Santos WA & Offshore Australia Drilling & Completions team participated in a charity half-day event at Native Arc in the Perth suburb of South Lake on 3 February 2012. Read more

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Santos is sponsoring the new sprint classification at next month’s Smokefree Perth Criteriums. Read more

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The third season of Santos’ support for Shakespeare in the Park got off to a humorous start with The Comedy of Errors playing to a full house at the Kings Park Botanical Garden in Perth on Friday night. Read more

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Earlier this year, Santos, in partnership with the Australian Professional Firefighters Foundation (APFF) and ItShare, donated 31 second-hand laptops valued at over $15,000 to the Juvenile Fire Lighters’ Intervention Program (JFLIP). Read more

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Volunteers at the Homeless Connect project.

Santos volunteers in the Perth office have turned out in full force to support the annual Homeless Connect project, an initiative offering Perth's homeless a range of goods and services from food and clothing to dental and medical checks. Read more

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Boys from Clontarf’s South East Academy before their Norseman to Esperance ride.

Employees in the Perth office have lately spent serious time in the saddle for good causes, with 40 riders joining 3,500 others in the Santos Great Bike Ride and others helping the Clontarf Foundation raise $10,000 in a fundraising ride from Norseman to Esperance. Read more

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Cycling champ Robbie McEwen on stage.

The Santos Legends of Cycling Dinner, held for the first time last Thursday in Perth, got off to a flying start with two of Australia’s biggest names in the sport captivating the crowd of 200 at the Pan Pacific Hotel. Read more

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Kings Park Festival performer.

The 2011 Kings Park festival has been launched, with 'Santos Live Sundays' again a key feature of the month long event. Read more

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Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Annual City to Surf in Perth.

Over a quarter of the Santos Perth office participated in the annual City to Surf fun run last weekend in perfect conditions. Read more

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Santos' Manny Sessink and John Anderson with Shakespeare WA's Paige Newmark (centre) with the trophy.

The inaugural Santos Oil and Gas Industry Charity Quiz raised $26,000 for Homeless Connect, a one-stop-shop for homeless people in Perth. Read more

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Santos' Tom Baddeley with Santos Prize winner Chris Coman and head of Curtin University's Petroleum Engineering Department, Brian Evans.

Santos was centre stage at Curtin University’s engineering annual prize-giving ceremony in Perth recently, with the company sponsoring two of the Department of Petroleum Engineering’s awards for the 2010 academic year. Read more

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Milatjari Pumani, Ngura walytja – This is my place, 1928, synthetic polymer paint on linen.

The acclaimed Desert Country art exhibition, which is embarking on a national tour funded by Santos, was launched in Perth last Friday night. Read more

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Santos has announced a new three-year partnership with the Clontarf Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation committed to improving the education, discipline, self esteem, life skills and employment prospects of young Aboriginal men. Read more

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Santos CEO David Knox struts his stuff on the energy bike.

Santos' famed energy bike has made its debut at the annual APPEA conference, attracting plenty of interest from the event's 3,000 attendees. Read more

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The Santos team braved big swells, unhelpful currents, seasickness, jellyfish and a hammerhead shark as it took on the annual 20-kilometre swim across the Rottnest Channel recently. Read more

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Shakespeare has returned to Perth’s Kings Park for another summer with support from Santos, with production company Shakespeare WA bringing to life the English playwright’s romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Read more

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Lord Mayor, Lisa Scaffidi, and Santos' WA & NT HR Business Partner, Karen Thielemann.

Santos has today pledged to donate $50,000 to help the families who have suffered hardship or severe property damage as a result of the devastating floods in Carnarvon and the Gascoyne region. 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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The Santos team.

Nearly 4,000 cyclists took part in this year’s Santos Great Bike Ride in Perth, which raised about $250,000 for local charities. 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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Shane and the gang.

With less than to go before the annual Santos Great Bike Ride, Olympian cyclist Shane Kelly took members of Santos’ Perth office for a training ride ahead of the big event. Read more

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The Kings Park Festival celebrates people and plants in Perth’s botanic gardens.

Santos has become the major partner of the iconic Kings Park Festival, an annual celebration of people and plants in Perth’s botanic gardens. Read more

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Santos Amazon Jasi Watson.

Santos employees have again excelled themselves in the annual BRW Triathlon, recording good results in Adelaide and Perth in recent weeks. Read more

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The Santos team.

A team of Santos’ Perth employees have taken part in the annual Rottnest Channel Swim, a 20-kilometre slog from Perth’s Cottesloe Beach to Rottnest Island. Read more

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Santos will be the major partner for Shakespeare WA for the next three years, continuing the company's commitment to supporting the arts and contributing to areas in which it operates. Read more

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The 2009 Santos Great Bike Ride was held in perfect conditions around the picturesque Swan River.

More than 4000 people took part in the 2009 Santos Great Bike Ride held in Perth in November. Read more

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