By Irina Slav Talks between workers and LNG producers in Australia are continuing this week although there is talk of positive progress. Woodside Energy, one of the companies risking LNG supply disruptions due to potential industrial action, said negotiations with trade unions had resulted in some "positive progress", as quoted by Reuters. On the other hand, the unions themselves have said that differences remain on some key issues, the report notes. "Positive progress is being made and the parties have reached an in-principle agreement on a number of issues that are key to the workforce," Woodside told Reuters, adding "We continue to engage actively and constructively in the bargaining process." Woodside and Chevron—the other company involved in negotiations—have good reason to want to speed up things. Together, the two produce a tenth of the world's liquefied natural gas and last week the very talk about strikes led to a 40% jump in European gas prices.