Originally published: Financial Review, 05 April 2023
A local oil and gas producer which owns an exploration permit offshore of the Sydney coastline is pushing its case, as the new NSW Labor government’s energy minister settles into the job.
Asset Energy, which controls the tenement stretching from Newcastle to Wollongong known as PEP-11, is amping up its bid to continue exploring the site under a new NSW Government, which makes up one half of a joint decision-making panel with the federal government.
The polling was commissioned by and conducted for Asset Energy in the week after the March 25 state election by Sydney-based pollsters Pureprofile from a sample of 1006 respondents. Critically, it was conducted exclusively from respondents living in the Hunter region including Lake Macquarie, the lower and upper Hunter, Newcastle and Port Stephens.
