Perth-based Woodside Petroleum Ltd and US company Apache Corp are increasingly likely to strike a gas supply arrangement over the expansion of the Pluto gas project.
Western Australia's chances of being selected as the host of Inpex's $12 billion liquified natural gas plant have been put at risk after the Northern Territory today called an early August election.
Former Carmichael Capital Markets executive chairman Craig McGown and former Woodside executive David Craig have joined the board of West Perth-based based oil and gas play Entek Energy.
An updated scoping study into West Perth-based Energy Metals Ltd's Bigrlyi uranium and vanadium project in the Northern Territory has boosted the mine's life from eight years to 12 years.
West Perth-based Key Petroleum Ltd has declared its gas discovery in Tanzania commercially viable with the Kiliwani North field to be developed for local market.
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The state Liberal party has revealed a leaked document from a government agency that had grave concerns about the condition of Apache Energy Ltd's Varanus Island pipelines last year.
Because Western Australia's resources boom springs largely from China's economic expansion there's a danger that, in Australia at least, China will be judged solely on its economic performance.
In times of financial stress, such as those we are currently experiencing, investment patterns and behaviour should be informed and strengthened by lessons passed on from successful investors, such as Warren Buffet and the legendary Sir John Templeton.
Carbon trading is still inconvenient and opponents, including many export industries, want no inconvenience, according to West Perth-based lobby WA Sustainable Energy Association.
The WA Sustainable Energy Association and the Australian Institute of Energy are to hold a breakfast entitled ‘BP Statistical Review of World Energy’, to be presented by London-based Christof Rue
The image of Fortescue Metals Group executive director Andrew Forrest waving an Australian flag from the front of an iron ore train to mark his company's entry into the export market in May appeared to capture the spirit of the state's mining boom.
WEST Perth-based Oilex Ltd has announced two key appointments, with Ben Clube appointed as chief finance and commercial officer and Kim Morrison as business development manager.
There's an elephant in the room. Whether it's a public forum or a boardroom discussion, if the topic is climate change or lower emissions or the pricing of carbon, there it is - big and hard to miss, but somehow going unnoticed.
The rapid increase in membership at the not-for-profit WA Sustainable Energy Association is evidence of the growing acceptance by industry of a carbon-restrained future, according to chief executive Ray Wills.
A new system for calculating developer contributions to the Water Corporation may be introduced by the state government, if recommendations by the WA Economic Regulation Authority are adopted.
Energy: Alternatives and opportunities beyond the resources expansion The Australian British Chamber of Commerce is to host a breakfast briefing featuring guest speaker, Energy Minister Francis Logan.
Having formerly been named among the most recognised and best corporate brands in Western Australia in WA Business News' previous branding surveys, the more recent fortunes of Alinta have taken a protracted and well-documented fall.
Following Chinese steel company Sinosteel's announcement that it had secured majority control in iron ore miner Midwest Corporation last week, questions have been raised regarding the potential of future acquisitions of WA mining companies.
More gas is expected to flow through the state's online gas trading scheme following the resurrection overnight of the state's biggest energy generating unit, the 330 megawatt Collie power station.
The higher price of purchasing gas through the state government's online bulletin board could bump up the price of hotel rooms as one of WA's largest linen service providers passes on the cost.
West Perth-based mineral explorer Metex Resources Ltd will change its name to Carbon Energy Ltd tomorrow, the final touch on its repositioning as an energy focused company.
West Perth-based Adelphi Energy Ltd plans to raise $5.7 million through a non-renounceable rights issue with major shareholder ARC Energy Ltd subscribing for about 32 per cent of shares.
Redcliffe-based Global Construction Services has secured a contract to provide scaffolding for the construction of BHP Billiton Ltd's Newman HUB, part of the mining giant's iron ore expansion plans.
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North Perth-based Blue Energy Ltd has revealed a number of entities have registered interest in securing a 25.56 per cent parcel of shares controlled by the receiver of Primebroker Securities Ltd, part of the Chimaera Financial Group.
Prevailing market conditions have prompted nickel miner Minara Resources Ltd to investigate standby banking facilities as it quashed speculation over plans to raise equity.
