AGL Energy expects earnings to grow in the current financial year despite unseasonably warm weather at the start of the reporting period and fierce competition for customers.
The former head of power generation company Pacific Energy has emerged as the new chief executive of thermal energy company Enerji, replacing Andrew Vlahov, who stepped down last week.
A short term domestic gas contract between Woodside Petroleum and electricity generator Synergy is the first such deal since the North West Shelf Venture partners moved towards separate marketing of their production.
Underwater services company Shelf Subsea has merged with the local subsidiary of global geotechnical, survey and geosciences company Fugro in a deal worth $40 million.
Work is officially under way on the second stage of the Australian Centre for Energy Process Training facility in Munster, with the first sod turned today.
The employment market for geoscientists improved in the three months to June, in a sign that the resources industry might have reached the bottom in this cycle, although more than a third are still getting less than their desired amount of work.
Fertiliser and property magnate Vikas Rambal is making a move into renewable energy, buying a 50 per cent stake in Enigin WA, which will build the state's largest built environment solar panel installation at his Northam Boulevard shopping centre.
Former Perth Wildcats owner Andrew Vlahov has ended his tenure as chief executive of thermal energy company Enerji after spending just over a year in the role.
Marine services company MMA Offshore has flagged a $140 million impairment in its upcoming FY16 results, with the majority of the charge attributed to its vessel fleet.
Power generation company Pacific Energy has won an eight-year contract extension to continue providing services at St Barbara's Gwalia gold mine in Leonora.
TransAlta Corporation has had a small win in the Supreme Court after successfully defending an entitlements claim by Monadelphous Group, but the engineering firm is still pursuing about $33 million from a joint venture comprising a Pilbara-based subsidiary of the Canadian power utility and DPB Development Group.
Protean Wave Energy has recruited former Woodside Petroleum executive Steve Rogers as its new managing director, with his predecessor Bruce Lane and chief technology officer Sean Moore both stepping down from their roles at the clean energy company today.
Contractor Monadelphous Group has announced a move into the growing renewable energy market by setting up a joint venture with Newcastle-based ZEM Energy, with the two partners having already won work on a 270 megawatt wind farm near Canberra.
Subiaco-based Australis Oil & Gas has held its ground on its ASX debut, following completion of a $30 million initial public offering earlier this month.
Energy giant Santos has reaffirmed its full-year production and sales guidance after posting an eight per cent rise in quarterly production and a 25 per cent jump in sales volume.
Woodside Petroleum's second quarter sales revenue and production have fallen due to lower oil prices and an earlier refurbishment at its North West Shelf gas facility.
Papua New Guinea-focused Oil Search has backed down from a bidding war with global energy giant ExxonMobil, choosing not to raise its near $3 billion bid for New York-listed explorer InterOil.
A fuel supply system at Rio Tinto's Cape Lambert port and work on a loading jetty at Ichthys's Darwin LNG facilities are among $140 million of contracts recently won by Monadelphous.
Australian oil and gas producer Oil Search could find itself dragged into a bidding war over InterOil after a counter-bid by global energy giant ExxonMobil.
Treasurer Mike Nahan has said encouraging private investment in the Pilbara electricity grid could reduce its excess capacity and also energy prices in the north west, at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch today.
Australia's enormous LNG investment boom is starting to pay trade dividends, with exports up 18.5 per cent in the month of June to 3.6 million tonnes, largely to Japan and South Korea.
Transerv Energy will be upping its interest in the Perth Basin after it inked a farm-in and drilling agreement with Norwest Energy for the offshore Xanadu Prospect, and will buy a 4.7 per cent stake in the junior for $200,000.
