Six months after shutting down specialist oil and gas advisory firm Miro Advisers, Tim Woodall has joined the board of Melbourne-based explorer and producer FAR as a non-executive director.
Origin Energy has lifted full-year oil and gas production by 40 per cent to 323 petajoules, helped by the ramp-up of operations at its Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas project and better-than-expected output from its conventional oil and gas business.
Two Western Australian businesses have been recognised for their achievements in the subsea engineering sector at the 2017 Subsea Energy Australia awards.
Commissioning has been completed today at a 150-megawatt gas power station in South Hedland built by Canadian energy company TransAlta, to power Horizon Power customers and Fortescue Metals Group's operations.
Renewable energy company WestGen has moved close to proceeding with WA's second new solar farm this year, after appointing key contractors for its $75 million Byford project.
Chinese demand for Australian natural resources could be on a longer-term path of slow growth, although a major international development project could bring some benefits.
Samantha Tough has become the third director to step down this year from the board of 3D printing company Aurora Labs, which has experienced a wild ride since listing on the ASX last August, initially enjoying a spectacular share price rally before losing most of the gains.
Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has posted a 6.6 per cent fall in second quarter production following outages at some of its facilities and lower share of pipeline gas from the North West Shelf.
Former Canaccord Genuity head of energy Asia Pacific, Angus Walker, has taken over the helm of Perth Basin energy producer Empire Oil & Gas today after the resignation of managing director Ken Aitken.
Tokyo-based Inpex's Ichthys LNG project will provide a $34 billion boost to incomes in Western Australia across the period to 2050, and generate about $73 billion of tax revenue, according to an economic impact report by Acil Allen Consulting released today.
Schools, aged care facilities, shopping centres and bars are among the eclectic mix of establishments installing solar panels, amid predictions commercial rooftop installations could grow by nearly a gigawatt in Perth and surrounds by 2037.
OPINION: The resources world is watching to see how the technology on Shell's Prelude platform performs against Inpex's more traditional Ichthys operation.
Pancontinental Oil & Gas has made changes to its board and executive line-up after completing its acquisition of private company Bombora Natural Energy.
The South Australian government has awarded Elon Musk's Tesla the contract to build the world's largest lithium ion battery to supply the state with renewable energy, outbidding local company Carnegie Clean Energy.
Sydney-based AGL made its long-awaited entry to the Perth gas market this week, with price cuts and a range of customer incentives underpinning the company's offering as the sector's newest player in the domestic gas sector.
AWE has reported more positive drilling results at its half-owned Waitsia gas field near Dongara, which it has previously said could be the biggest onshore gas discovery in WA for 50 years.
Competition among developers of renewable energy projects in WA's South West is hotting up, with two solar farms starting construction this year and a further eight major projects hoping to join them.
Perth-based Advanced Energy Resources has won an $8 million contract to build and operate a three megawatt wind and solar farm to power GMA Garnet Group's Port Gregory mine near Kalbarri.
Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has won two new contracts totalling $170 million, one of which is for further work on the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin.
APA Group will construct a new $180 million gas pipeline and power station to provide energy to Gold Road Resources' Gruyere gold project near Laverton.
Perth-based construction company Whittens has won a $22 million contract to provide its services to MACH Energy Australia's Mount Pleasant thermal coal project in NSW.
Concrete construction group Whittens has won a contract to provide its services to the construction of cryogenic tanks at the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin for an undisclosed sum.
Rooftop solar panels cut peak electricity demand last summer by 7 per cent and their growing popularity is reshaping consumption patterns, potentially at higher cost to electricity generators, a new report has found.
Engineering company Wood Group has won a $US6 million ($A7.9 million) contract to provide its services to Woodside Petroleum's Greater Western Flank project in the North West Shelf.
Monadelphous Group has won a contract to complete cryogenic tanks at the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin – the same job that Laing O'Rourke walked away from in March.
Woodside Petroleum says its joint venture partner at the SNE oilfield offshore Senegal, FAR, has declined to support a transition for the energy giant to eventually take over as operator of the operation.
