Premier Colin Barnett has upped the ante on the controversial Browse gas project, indicating that joint venture leader Woodside Petroleum might not receive state government approval for a floating
Petroleum giant Shell has rejected Premier Colin Barnett’s criticism of floating LNG projects, saying the revolutionary technology is the likely saviour of the industry in Australia as rising costs
Western Australia is currently at the forefront of global oil and gas activity, and international demand should ensure it will stay there for some time, one of Shell Australia’s top executives says
Engineering group Monadelphous says it has secured an $80 million contract to provide maintenance services to Queensland Curtis LNG at its new gas plant.
Indian company Lanco Infratech has released details of the planned expansion of its Griffin Coal business, in which it will invest an estimated $1.2 billion to underpin annual exports of 12 million
Legislation to ensure James Price Point is the only site on the Kimberley coast where Browse Basin gas will be processed was introduced into state parliament yesterday.
Privately-owned firms Thistle Fabrication and Primero Group, as well as Geraldton's Lenane Holdings, have won construction contracts for the Empire Oil & Gas-led Red Gully processing facility n
Energy giant ConocoPhillips coud become the second company, after Japan's Inpex, to transport gas from a field off the Western Australian coast to an LNG processing plant at Darwin.
France-based oil and gas engineering company Technip has won a €210 million ($262 million) works deal at Inpex’s Ichthys LNG project off the Western Australian coast.
Premier Colin Barnett has defended the process behind the Environmental Protection Authority's (EPA) decision to recommend Woodside Petroleum's proposed $30 billion Kimberley gas hub.
Woodside Petroleum's first half profit has fallen slightly because of the costs of starting up its massive Pluto liquefied natural gas project, which will remain at current capacity after a failed
Oil and gas giant Chevron has divested its holdings in the controversial Browse development off the Kimberley coast in exchange for increased holdings around its Wheatstone gas project, currently h
The Australian Greens say Woodside Petroleum has heavily underestimated whale numbers off the Western Australian coast, near the site of its proposed $34 billion gas hub.
International energy and services company Wood Group PSN has won a $10 million contract to construct computerised maintenance management systems for Royal Dutch Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied n
In what is fast becoming one of Australia's most bitterly fought environmental campaigns, cold, hard cash - rather than conservation - is likely to determine the fate of Woodside Petroleum's multib
Federal resources and energy minister Martin Ferguson has stepped up Canberra’s criticism of state government policy, calling for regulatory changes in the WA energy market and privatisation of ene
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has stolen words out of the Queensland Premier's mouth and then blamed him for electricity price hikes, Premier Colin Barnett says.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has given the states four months to come up with ways to slow surging energy prices or face market watchdogs with more powers to ease the pressure on households.
The surge in the number of people accessing the state government's Hardship Utilities Grants Scheme could be just the tip of the iceberg, the opposition says.
Fremantle-based wave energy company Carnegie has signed a deal with the Australian department of defence for power supply and grid connection to its HMAS Stirling base.
The Environmental Protection Authority has approved the proposed $30 billion liquefied natural gas hub at James Price Point, imposing 29 strict conditions on the proposal.
