Energy

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.

Guy Chalkley will stay on as chief executive of state-owned utility Western Power, with his appointment made official 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.

SPECIAL REPORT: WA's regulatory system is at the top of the hit list for onshore oil and gas juniors seeking to drill tenements in the state.

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.

Woodside Petroleum has agreed to buy ConocoPhillips' stake in three deepwater oil blocks off the coast of Senegal for $US350 million ($A460 million).

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.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

Shares in engineering and construction business Valmec surged after the company announced plans to suspend dividend payments to preserve capital for its expansion plans.

Oil Search's attempt to consolidate its holdings in gas-rich Papua New Guinea could be delayed after a rival bid emerged to its near $3 billion bid for New York-listed InterOil.

Chevron evacuated workers from its Gorgon project on Barrow Island this morning due to a gas leak.

Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline owner-operator DBP says pricing for the gas transmission line set by the Economic Regulation Authority today won't be enough to earn a rate of return suitable for prevailing market conditions.

Subiaco-based Australis Oil & Gas has lodged its prospectus for a $30 million initial public offering, with plans to list on the ASX within a month.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum will proceed with development of its $US1.9 billion ($A2.6 billion) Greater Enfield oil project in the Carnarvon Basin.

Drilling services company Imdex has continued to refresh its board, with corporate adviser and company director Anthony Wooles recruited to replace long-serving chairman Ross Kelly.

Legislation to enable regulation of Western Power to transition from WA's Economic Regulation Authority to the independent national energy regulator has been introduced to state parliament.

Diversified construction and maintenance group EC&M has emerged as the private company that has entered into a partnership agreement with energy technology company Enerji.

A panel of industry, government, science and communty members will today release its two year marine science implementation strategy, aiming to make the state a global hub in the discipline and to encourage collaboration between industries such as offshore energy and fisheries.

Cottesloe-based Triangle Energy Global has emerged as the new buyer for AWE's majority stake in the Cliff Head offshore oil project in the Perth Basin.

Chevron's outgoing Australian boss has called for improved industry collaboration and better industrial relations policies to support future growth, but has also signalled new ‘greenfields' LNG projects are low on the priority list.

New technology is leading to a dramatic reduction in per capita power use around Australia, a new report has found, but WA has bucked the trend, as the only state where residential energy consumption is expected to increase over the coming decade.

Oil and gas company AWE has found a new buyer for its majority stake in the Cliff Head offshore oil project, after Elixir Petroleum was unable to complete a previously announced deal.