Transpacific feeling the pinch after fleet grounded following fatal crash.

Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman is eyeing more potential acquisitions in the depressed oil and gas sector after striking a $US3.75 billion ($4.56 billion) deal to buy for Apache's stakes in two LNG projects.

Performance targets are pushing employees to sell financial products that are not in customers' interests, a union report says.

With its share price holding resolutely below its rights issue price, the underwriters to Virgin Australia's $852 million raising may be called upon to cover a large slice of the issue.

A Coles night-fill worker is taking on the supermarket giant over its "degrading" wage deal