WPL

Woodside Petroleum (WPL) oil and gas full year production may have fallen 11 per cent compared to the previous corresponding period, but it has exceeded the company's full-year production guidance. The company's 64.6 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) for its full year production had beaten its previous forecast of 62-64 MMboe.

The year comes of with a rough start for some and a smooth for others as companies trade stocks for the second week of 2012. Here are the lists of the best and worst traded stocks in the ASX100, ASX200 and All Ordinaries in the Australian Securities Exchange for January 9-13, 2012.

Best Performing Trade Stocks ASX100 (XTO)

ASX100

The list below is a record of the top ten best and worst traded stocks in the ASX100, ASX200, and All Ordinaries of the Australian Stock Exchange in the 49th week of 2011, from December 5 to 9, 2011.

Best Performing Trade Stocks ASX100 (XTO)

ASX100

1. BlueScope Steel (BSL) closed its price at 43 cents adding $0.05 or 13.16%

Woodside Petroleum (WPL has announced today its approval of the $2.5 billion development of the Greater Western Flank (GWF) project to mark the expansion of North West Shelf. The first phase of GWF will also include the development of Goodwyn GH and Tidepole fields.

There are no schedule floats and only one extraordinary general meeting, but there are six stocks that will go on ex-dividend August 22, 2011.

Dividends

Greencross Limited (GXL) provides veterinary services through 54 acquired and integrated practices in Australia.

Woodside Petroleum (ASX:WPL) has signed a $30 billion agreement with native landowners to develop the Browse Basin liquefied natural gas export project in Kimberley, Western Australia.

Under the agreement with the Goolarabooloo Jabirr Jabirr Aborigines, Woodside pledged more than $1 billion to the native communities in the form of education, housing and initiatives, spread over 30 years.

As Woodside Petroleum's (ASX:WPL) shares crashed below $40 for the first time in 10 months, BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) may be swooping in for a takeover with a possible $35 billion bid in the offing.

Woodside Petroleum (ASX:WPL) has agreed to pay a $170,000 settlement to a former female executive to close a sexual discrimination case. The company maintains that this was done not in admission to the claim, but because it was the best way to conclude the case for both parties.

Outgoing Woodside Petroleum (ASX:WPL) chief executive Don Voelte has warned of cyber hacking from China and other countries, saying that resources companies are under attack "from everywhere."