Equinor has abandoned oil-drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight
- Written by Madeline Taylor, Academic Fellow, University of Sydney

This week’s decision by Norwegian company Equinor to abandon a A$200 million plan to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight surprised both its critics and backers.
Equinor says it abandoned the project off the remote South Australian coast because it was not “commercially competitive”.
But the plan was...