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Santos Place

Oil and mining company Santos have leased 8 levels of Northbridge Tower and have also taken out naming rights to the tower.

Santos will occupy 8 interconnected levels of Santos Place when it is completed and will possibly take up extra levels at a later date.
The tower will become home to all their Brisbane staff whom are currently spread over four other brisbane CBD sites.

(source: Primesite section of the Courier Mail)

Santos starts hiring for LNG project
January 9, 2009

Oil and gas producer Santos has started recruiting as many as 600 workers for its proposed $7.7 billion liquefied natural gas project in Queensland.

"The workers, which will be employees of Santos or of the Gladstone LNG, or GLNG, venture with Malaysia's Petronas, will be hired over the next two years," Matthew Doman, a spokesman for Adelaide-based Santos, said today.

By the end of 2010 there will be about 900 Santos and GLNG employees in Queensland, Santos said in a statement.

Santos and Petronas last month awarded a $US40 million ($56.4 million) contract to Bechtel to carry out initial engineering and design work on the Gladstone LNG project, to be built on Curtis Island. A final investment decision should be taken in the first half of 2010, with shipments due to start in 2014, Santos said.

Santos yesterday signed a multi-million dollar long-term lease for a 36-floor commercial tower in Brisbane, the company said in the statement, distributed yesterday to local media.

The tower, to be called Santos Place, is under construction in the central business district. Santos's eight-year lease, with two options each of five years, starts in mid-2009.

The GLNG project, owned 60% by Santos and 40% by Petronas, is one of four LNG projects proposed to be built in the Gladstone area using gas extracted from coal seams, which hasn't previously been used as a fuel for export projects.

BG Group, and a venture between Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips, are also planning to use ConocoPhillips's LNG technology in their rival plants.

"Consolidation is a topic that interests us and it is not lost on us that BG, Conoco-Origin and the Santos-Petronas projects have all chosen to use the Conoco Cascade liquefaction process," Citigroup said in a December 22 report. "As all the players involved are likely to be economically rational, especially when the going gets tough, some form of consolidation on Curtis island, in particular, is expected."

Pistol wrote:I have a friend that works for Santos in Adelaide and funnily enough she isn't even based in their purpose-built building.

Apparently they have outgrown their building and are leasing space in the CGU/SGIC building next door.

Now that is a disgrace.

Pistol wrote:...Apparently they [SANTOS] have outgrown their building and are leasing space in the CGU/SGIC building next door...

UrbanSG wrote:...One again Adelaide gets screwed over for height, hmmmm...

IN THE ARCHITECTS WORDS


Santos is one of the leading oil and gas exploration companies in Australia. The Santos Centre is the physical realisation of a cultural change program that they had already commenced, shifting Santos towards a more transparent, inclusive and high performing multidisciplinary team culture. The Santos Centre was purpose built for Santos as the sole tenant, in a collaborative effort between the base building development team and the workplace team. The project comprises 15,400m2 NLA of new workspace over 12 levels plus ground. The brief for the Santos Centre was to create an open and collaborative environment for 900 Adelaide based staff as well as visiting field based employees, that responded to and supported Santos' values around the themes of Discovers, Delivers, Collaborates and Cares. This was achieved by working closely with the Santos team to understand the future directions of their business and culture and physical accommodation needs. Santos recognised that their previous accommodation no longer supported their values and business model. The business was separated over multiple lift rises, staff were located in a mixture of offices and open workpoints and the leadership team was isolated from the business. The new headquarters needed to reflect the progressive approach Santos had as a business and employer and create an environment that inspired and included its people and supported its business objectives. The workplace is organised around the atrium, which is continuous through 12 floors and




connects the whole business; it has been designed to allow for maximum interaction and visibility of people throughout the building. Located within the atrium is the connecting stair (which borrows from the visual language of offshore oil rigs), recycled timber clad bridges linking the floor plates across the void and cantilevered glazed meeting rooms which are used as vehicles for the character of the floors. The atrium has been designed not only to be the connector for the business but to reflect what Santos does. Each of the 1,250m2 typical floors has a standardised layout, with a main circulation corridor running the length of the building that separates the meeting rooms to the west and workspaces to the east that are defined by the atrium. The core opposite the atrium provides lifts and services access. Within the workspaces are smaller, non-bookable quiet rooms and open, collaborative furniture settings that support small teams. Three standard worksetting layouts that allow for minimum, mid and maximum density workspaces were designed to anticipate churn, growth and differences in teams and workstyles. Santos wanted a place that reflected who they are and what they do. We worked with Santos to develop themes for each floor that were based on a culture or a terrain where oil and gas is found or that Santos operates in including South East Asia, Ocean, Central Asia and Outback Australia. The result is highly bespoke, an environment that always offers a surprise to those who work within it.