Energy

Wesfarmers subsidiary, Kleenheat, has secured 19 per cent of the state's business market in just its third year of operation, according to general manager Mark Gadsby.

Swiss multinational ABB Group has won a five-year contract to provide equipment and services for Shell's Prelude floating LNG project, which will operate in the Browse Basin off the Kimberley coast.

China's largest private gas company, ENN Group, is set to become Santos's biggest shareholder after agreeing to buy an 11.7 per cent stake in the Australian energy giant.

Premier Colin Barnett clings to hope the Woodside Petroleum-led Browse liquefied natural gas joint venture will be revived, but says he's not surprised it has been shelved.

North Fremantle-based Carnegie Wave Energy has acquired a 35 per cent stake in solar power and lithium battery storage provider Energy Made Clean through a $4.5 million investment.

Engineering and infrastructure group RCR Tomlinson has won a contract to provide early work on a solar farm in Queensland for Origin Energy for an undisclosed sum.

Chevron's $55 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has finally shipped its first cargo, two weeks after production commenced at the first of three gas processing trains.

Four Mid West companies have won nearly $6 million in contracts for work on AWE's Waitsia project, where first gas is expected in the third quarter of this year.

South Australia's push for renewable energy is an experiment worth watching for the other states.

Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has secured $10 million worth of new work, including a contract with Western Power.

Troy Hayden will step down from the helm of Tap Oil as the company swings the axe on jobs and operations so it can meet its now-restructured debt repayment obligations.

Iron ore miners will be aiming to keep costs down as uncertainty over currency and oil prices, and falling demand, continue.

Domestic gas producer Empire Oil & Gas has reported a 13 per cent lift in half-year revenue on the back of higher plant utilisation, and remained in the black despite the falling oil price.

Solar-powered battery storage devices are being installed in Esperance to provide power to a handful of people previously connected to the electricity infrastructure razed by last November's bushfires.

Paul Italiano is leaving his post as chief executive of Western Power to pursue the same role at TransGrid in New South Wales.

Wesfarmers subsidiary EVOL LNG has won a contract to supply LNG to the power station at Doray Minerals' Deflector gold project in the Murchison region for an undisclosed sum.

Offshore oil and gas services firm Aecor Group has expanded through the acquisition of industrial rope access and inspection company Vertical Services.

A lobby group set up to defend a major component of Western Australia's oversupplied electricity market has stepped up its political stunts today presenting a large likeness of a gold watch as a symbol that it's time to retire Muja AB power station.

As five women and one male champion were honoured at this year's Chamber of Minerals and Energy's women in resources awards, Premier Colin Barnett declared the resources industry to have reached a mature level of growth that will likely be eclipsed by advances in the state's other sectors.

Global oversupply of LNG may work in local consumers' favour.

Engineering group Clough has won a contract to provide its services to a joint venture which is building a liquid petroleum gas import terminal in South Africa.

Thermal power company Enerji has been appointed co-developer in a $300,000 state-run trial to determine the economic case for a micro electricity grid in Kalbarri that could potentially become Australia's biggest fringe-of-grid network.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum is expected to delay a long-awaited decision on its multi-billion dollar Browse project until oil prices recover.

Perth-based engineering and construction business Valmec has won a $24 million contract to provide its services to the Australia Pacific LNG project in Queensland for Origin Energy.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will join a range of international energy leaders in Perth to open the LNG 18 global conference in mid-April.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has bolstered its board with the appointment of a former Shell executive, while Dacian Gold has welcomed a prominent lawyer to its board.

The global LNG market could soon be in sharp oversupply, with Australia contributing about a third of that excess in what will become a buyers' paradise, an international expert says.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has signed a project development agreement with US-based Sempra Energy for a potential liquefied natural gas plant in Texas.

Today at AOG: US petroleum company Hess is pursuing development of its Equus gas field off the Pilbara coast, with senior manager Andrew Drayton telling the Australasian Oil & Gas conference today it would proceed with a variety of tendering opportunities this year, including for subsea work.

Today at AOG: Former APPEA environmental director Miranda Taylor has been appointed as chief executive of the federal government's newly established energy resources growth centre, which will be known as National Energy Resources Australia.

Power generation company Pacific Energy has won a contract to supply electricity to Doray Minerals' Deflector gold project in the Murchison region for an undisclosed sum.

Local waste management company Tox Free Solutions has won a new contract for work at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine in South Australia, along with an extension for ongoing work at Chevron's Western Australian assets, for an undisclosed sum.