US police are carrying the day’s wanted list in their pockets, mining industry personnel can refer to daily drilling reports out on the road, and researchers are throwing away paper survey forms.
A DEMONSTRATION plant producing electrolytic manganese dioxide, the main ingredient in alkaline batteries, has been commissioned at Murdoch University.
A UK-based entrepreneur and former researcher is on a crusade to secure strategic and financial assistance within Australia for companies looking to benefit from biotechnology projects.
Much is at stake for Western Australia’s energy industry and its major customers as they wait for Ken Michael’s draft decision on third party access to the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline.
INVESTOR interest has swamped another WA junior explorer preparing to list on the Australian Stock Exchange, prompting the directors of Hamill Resources to announce they are confident of closing their float prospectus almost
WHILE futuristic advances in telecommunications, vehicle technology and medical research are publicly heralded on a regular basis, a group of researchers is quietly saving the mining industry millions of dollars each year.
WHILE talks to implement the Kyoto Protocol broke down last year over disagreement on carbon reduction processes and trading, governments and companies have remained busy developing projects, policies and programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
GOING by the numbers, the WA resources industry’s March quarter was steady as she goes, with revenue and production growth very much in line with predictions.
AS it awaits impending production from its Gocerler gas field and pipeline project in Turkey, Amity Oil has changed its name from Amity Oil NL to Amity Oil Limited, and will be listed as not only an Australian gas explorer but also a producer.
WHILE other resources companies are reinventing themselves in new industries to sweeten the bottom line for investors, Amadeus Petroleum is diversifying just a little into applied technology, energy-related biotechnology processes
TAP Oil was trading at a yearly high of $1.25 during the week after reporting increases in liquids production, average daily gas sales and revenue for the March quarter.
THE Gallop Government’s determination to review its predecessor’s deal to supply power to the far north of the State may yet bring tidal power to the region, but also could delay much-needed supply.
PERTH’S weather, childhood experiences and tragedy make an unlikely threesome, but they have combined to bring the city its most successful restaurant franchise story in 10 years.
WOODSIDE Petroleum may have slipped through Royal Dutch-Shell’s fingertips but arguably it had already lost one of the key reasons for its takeover bid — shutting out a rival technology from Asia.
A PERTH-based international freight company servicing the mining industry is touting for extra business from humanitarian aid agencies and developing nations.
