Woodside Petroleum Limited

A Western Australian Indigenous group is in talks with Woodside Petroleum over obtaining a stake in its $12 billion Scarborough and Pluto LNG expansion to help secure the future of the local traditional owners, a senior Indigenous official told Reuters.

Australian shares ended higher on Tuesday, buoyed by gains in the mining and energy sectors, a day after BHP Group and Woodside Petroleum gave the final sign-off on their $12 billion Scarborough LNG project.

For the first time in a decade a massive new liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has been approved for construction in Australia, but the Scarborough venture's structure and market realities indicate it may well be the last of its kind.

* Woodside, BHP petroleum merger beefs up cash flows (Adds analyst comment, LNG price gains, Pluto partner)

UK's FTSE 100 rose on Monday, as dealmaking activity in the European telecoms sector boosted shares in Vodafone and BT Group, while miner BHP gained after the merger of its petroleum arm with Woodside.

* Duhe to join Newcrest as CFO, replace Gerard Bond (Adds details about Duhe, analyst comments, shares)

Woodside Petroleum said on Friday it has acquired land for a proposed hydrogen plant in Tasmania, one of three proposed hydrogen projects the island state is promoting to take advantage of its abundant hydropower and wind power.

Woodside Petroleum slashed its gas reserves estimate for two fields at the Wheatstone project on Thursday, in an unexpected downgrade that knocked the top Australian oil and gas company's shares.

BHP Group will transfer a smaller-than-expected $3.9 billion in oil and gas decommissioning liabilities to Woodside when it merges its petroleum business with the independent Australian gas producer.

* Government says consulting on levy legislation (Adds Treasury, industry lobby group comment)

Woodside Petroleum is paying new CEO, Meg O'Neill, around 25% less than her predecessor, even as she embarks on sealing a deal to double the size of the Australian company to turn it into a top 10 independent oil and gas producer.

Shares in BHP Group and Woodside Petroleum fell on Wednesday as investors on both sides raised questions about the value of the Perth-based oil and gas group's proposed $29 billion merger with BHP's petroleum arm.

Shares in BHP Group Ltd. and Woodside Petroleum fell on Wednesday as investors digested details of the Perth-based oil and gas group's A$40 billion ($29 billion) merger with BHP's petroleum arm, with some questioning the value of the deal for Woodside.

* H1 underlying profit rises 17%, misses broker forecasts (Recasts with investor, analyst comments)

* Shareholders worry about stock overhang (Adds Woodside CEO comments, investor comment)

BHP Group has agreed to sell its petroleum business to Woodside Petroleum in a merger to create a top 10 independent oil and gas company worth A$38.5 billion ($28 billion) with growth assets in Australia and the Americas.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd on Tuesday named Meg O'Neill as its chief executive officer, after she was appointed as the interim head in April following the exit of Peter Coleman. (Reporting by Sameer Manekar in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)

BHP Group said on Tuesday it would sell its petroleum assets to Woodside Petroleum in an all-stock deal as the world's biggest listed miner posted its best annual profit in nearly a decade. (Reporting by Nikhil Kurian Nainan and Anushka Trivedi in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak...

* Woodside shares drop 4%, BHP off 0.2% (Recasts with analysts' comments, share price reaction)