Energy

Pacific Energy managing director Adam Boyd has announced plans to leave the role at the end of March next year, after more than eight years at the company.

The federal government is happy to look at any future proposal for a nuclear power plant, but won't be offering taxpayer support.

Western Australia’s clean energy sector is undergoing a shakeup after the state’s premier lobbying organisation announced it was closing and would be replaced by a WA chapter of the Clean Energy Council.

Fremantle-based Carnegie Wave Energy has celebrated the installation of its first CETO 5 wave technology unit off Garden Island, marking the start of its $30 million wave energy project.

Chevron Australia’s former general manager greater Gorgon area, Colin Beckett, has been appointed to the board of Australia’s largest onshore oil producer, South Australian company Beach Energy.

Mandurah has been revealed as the top solar postcode in Western Australia, according to a new report which also found WA lags behind every other state in Australia in terms of total renewable energy capacity.

The coalition government has accused Labor of betraying the renewable energy sector by abandoning negotiations on a new target.

As global calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions get louder, WA is quietly progressing its own carbon capture and storage project

Neon Energy may be leaving its Perth headquarters after entering into a merger implementation agreement with MEO Australia, which would create a combined entity based in Melbourne.

Australia is expected to become the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas within four years, according to an HSBC report.

The consumer watchdog is "painstakingly" sifting through data to ensure households are paying less for their electricity after the repeal of the carbon tax.

Energy Minister Mike Nahan has hailed the removal of the carbon price as the reason behind Western Australians receiving an 8 per cent drop in electricity prices.

Synergy chairman Lyndon Rowe is confident Synergy’s new board, which was boosted today with the addition of three members, will operate harmoniously.

Viento Group has been awarded a $7.9 million contract by BHP Billiton Iron Ore for refurbishment at its OHP Substation in Yandi.

Santos has called on the state government to provide more certainty on its domestic gas reservation and offsets policies, to encourage new investment in ‘domgas’ supplies.

The state government has agreed to increase the price it pays Premier Coal for its coal supplies, as uncertainty continues over the fate of fellow Collie producer Griffin Coal.

A joint venture between AusGroup and Japanese-based Meisei Industrial has won a $197 million subcontract for industrial work at Inpex’s Ichthys liquefied natural gas project near Darwin.

The Business News annual export review has the latest data on 33 businesses representing $122 billion in outgoing trade. It also shows that while iron ore continues to dominate, the emergence of LNG, agriculture and services will benefit from a lower dollar.

As the state’s review of its electricity market seeks to turn the system on its head, investors protecting their interests have argued strongly to keep Western Australia out of the national electricity market (NEM).

Lower operating costs and an efficiency drive have helped Western Power record an improved net profit result, in a year where strong capital investment continued.

A subsidiary of Wesfarmers, liquefied natural gas supplier EVOL LNG, has won a deal with Saracen Mineral Holdings to supply 7,000 tonnes of the resource per year to its Carosue Dam operations north of Kalgoorlie for an undisclosed amount.

A joint project between Woodside Petroleum and Curtin University is aiming to boost productivity in the construction of liquefied natural gas projects in Western Australia.

Scientists and engineers in Perth have begun quietly setting up a centre which could encourage more floating gas projects off Western Australia's coast and create local jobs.

A new report says governments will need to balance the need to keep gas prices low for local consumers with securing royalties from producers.

WA is expected to be the world's second-largest LNG exporter by 2020.

Otto Energy says the sale of its Galoc oil field assets in the Philippines to Singapore-based energy company Risco Energy Investments for $113.4 million will help fund exploration activities for two years and return capital to shareholders.

The federal government has appointed former Western Australian bureacrat Stuart Smith as CEO of its oil and gas industry regulator, the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority.

Six new power stations will be built in the Mid West by private company Contract Power Australia for Horizon Power customers.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has hit back at unions who have called for a parliamentary inquiry into the Gorgon project.

Rural network provider Horizon Power has in part blamed a downturn in the economy for the company’s decision to reduce its number of electrical linesmen by 28 per cent

Fremantle-based Carnegie Wave Energy says its $31 million Perth Wave Energy project is close to the commissioning stage after completing offshore preparations and testing its CETO technology.

Sunbird Energy has announced a deal with Vandasia Investments under which the gas explorer and developer will secure a $25 million cash injection and a new major strategic partner.