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Street Talk understands the celebrated energy and utilities analyst is set to join Millennium.

Santos’ $5.8 billion Barossa gas project has emerged as the biggest target of the escalated restrictions on gas projects secured by the Greens.

The risk that Queensland’s LNG exports will need to be constrained to avoid local shortages may pose a threat to the proposed $18.4 billion takeover of Origin.

Approvals, access to finance and state gas bans are holding back dozens of gas projects needed to stave off a shortfall, and the problem has been worsened by the gas market intervention.

With the bill now passed into law, here’s what’s at stake, what is next, and the political backstory of the Australia’s energy price boom

The federal government’s shock proposal to in effect seize control of the east coast gas market could scuttle the $18.4 billion takeover bid for Origin.

The federal government’s deal with the states wraps up its energy package with a neat Christmas bow. How long will it take to unravel?

The policy proposal would increase the risk of blackouts by cutting supply, and could derail the $18.4 billion takeover bid for Origin Energy, industry and analysts say.

Santos and Woodside Energy will rake in billions of dollars of extra profits this year due to the war in Ukraine, but analysts say the gas producers are only now offsetting earlier heavy losses.

Gas buyers are again at odds with producers on the pricing available in the east coast market as debate rages over potential government intervention.