Jenal Dhar (ILF2022)
The Australian
The Santos-Fluor dispute has been dragging on since 2016 increasingly frustrating both companies as they seek to put the matter to rest.
Energy giant Santos has achieved a win in its long-running $1.4bn legal claim against contractor Fluor over a Queensland gas pipeline project.
The Queensland Supreme Court on Friday refused an application from Fluor to stay a panel of referees completing a final report into the seven-year dispute over work carried out by Fluor during the development of the $US18.5bn Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) project in Queensland. Describing the dispute as “not only a trial but a tribulation,” Judge Peter Applegarth held the stay could not be justified.