Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill
Woodside adopts considered approach to Louisiana LNG
CEO Meg O’Neill explains the virtue of patience in offtake discussions amid tariff tensions
Woodside Energy will be “disciplined” as it works to court buyers for output from its newly approved Louisiana LNG project in the US, and is happy to take its time marketing offtake volumes while construction of the $17.5b facility gets underway in Texas, CEO Meg O’Neill told Petroleum Economist in an exclusive interview. “We think it’s valuable to be in the market continuously, as opposed to what many others have to do, which is contract 80% in a very short time period, and then build the project. We see advantage to being regularly in the market,” O’Neill said on the sidelines of the World Gas Conference in Beijing in May. “We’re going to be disciplined in our LNG offtake discussions and m
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