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Santos

Where Santos sits in the flow of extraction.

SANTOS · ESTIMATED FLOW OFFSHORE
≈A$2.4bn/yr
to east-coast cartel · East-coast gas: prices tripled while exports ran
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THE RORT · DOSSIER · SANTOSDOSSIER OPEN · TRACKING
ENTITY / ACTORCOMPANY · GASSTATUS · ExposedACROSS · 3 TOPICS

East-coast LNG exporter; one of the handful of companies whose export decisions set the domestic gas price the ACCC has declined to break up.

Estimated flow offshore, each year
≈A$2.4bn/yr
Flowing to east-coast cartel. East-coast gas: prices tripled while exports ran.
Corporate income tax paid · 2023-24
A$0
The 10th straight year paying no corporate income tax, on almost A$47bn of sales across the decade. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2023-24.
on total income of A$8.2bn
15
Investigations citing it
3
Topics it recurs across
27
Linked in the graph
4
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

Australia's Gas HeistChevron A$0 PRRT on A$26.9 billion; Santos A$213 million on A$8.3 billionOn evidence before the inquiry, in 2023-24 Chevron paid A$0 in PRRT on A$26.9 billion in revenue, while Santos paid A$213 million on A$8.3 billion.9 investigations →The Inflation Rort44 investigations →The War Trade22 investigations →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

02 / Connected in the graph

Actors in its orbit
WoodsideCOMPANY · GAS · 13ChevronCOMPANY · GAS · 10INPEXCOMPANY · GAS · 8ShellCOMPANY · GAS · 7Anthony AlbanesePERSON · POLITICIAN · 5Jim ChalmersPERSON · TREASURER · 5The ACCCFEDERAL REGULATOR · 4The RBAFEDERAL REGULATOR · 4The ATOACTOR · AGENCY · 4One NationPOLITICAL PARTY · 3Australian Banking AssociationLOBBY · BANKING INDUSTRY GROUP · 3NOPSEMAFEDERAL REGULATOR · 3Kerry StokesPERSON · MAGNATE · 2PM&CACTOR · DEPARTMENT · 2Donald TrumpPERSON · US PRESIDENT · 2Hancock ProspectingCOMPANY · 2TransurbanCOMPANY · TOLL ROADS · 1QantasCOMPANY · AVIATION · 1ColesCOMPANY · SUPERMARKETS · 1WoolworthsCOMPANY · SUPERMARKETS · 1Gina RinehartPERSON · EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF HANCOCK PROSPECTING · 1Trump MediaCOMPANY · TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY GROUP · 1Barnaby JoycePERSON · ONE NATION MP FOR NEW ENGLAND · 1
Mechanisms in play
The PRRTMECHANISM · TAX · 13Offshore DecommissioningMECHANISM · LIABILITY · 5The Revolving DoorMECHANISM · 4Regulatory CaptureMECHANISM · 1

03 / The evidence chain

Australia's Gas Heist
03What Norway builtAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST04Who profitsAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST05The political connectionsAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST07Why nothing changesAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST09The decommissioning rortAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST10The east coast gas cartelAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST12The A$60 billion boomerang: who cleans up the offshore rigs when the gas money is goneAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST13The inquiry that couldn't agreeAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST14The boom that paid Woodside backAUSTRALIA'S GAS HEIST
The Inflation Rort
03Why the RBA did all the workTHE INFLATION RORT07The political connectionsTHE INFLATION RORT09Four rises in 2026THE INFLATION RORT18Seven votes for a gas export tax, all lostTHE INFLATION RORT
The War Trade
03The Australian positionTHE WAR TRADE04The round tripTHE WAR TRADE

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names Santos, and it deepens automatically each time The Rort publishes another. The more the archive grows, the sharper this dossier gets, and the lobbyist, the donation and the revolving-door minister who recur across all of it become impossible to miss.

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