Engineering and construction company Decmil Group says it is in final stage negotiations over a $70 million contract for the Gorgon gas project while Ausgroup has been awarded $30 million worth of contracts for work on the Pluto operation.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Nedlands-based engineering and construction services company Forge Group has been awarded a $12 million terminal tank refurbishment contract on Barrow Island as part of Chevron's $50 billion Gorgon LNG project.
The Northern Territory government has declared the gas leak detected at Chinese oil giant Sinopec's Puffin oil field in the Timor Sea poses no threat to the environment.
Aviva Corporation has started shopping around its $1 billion Coolimba power project, two weeks after Aviva's plans were cruelled by its failure to win a critical power supply tender run by state-owned retailer Synergy.
Paladin Energy has lowered its production guidance for 2009/10 as the ramp up of its two uranium mines in Namibia and Malawi was slower than anticipated but has outlined expanded growth targets for future production.
Centamin Egypt will delist from the Australian Securities Exchange due to the high costs for a shareholder base that accounts for less than 15 per cent of the miner's share capital.
Troy Resources is forging ahead with capital raising plans, today placing its shares in a trading halt despite protests from former chairman John Jones.
Japan's Inpex Corporation says production will cease this month at its Griffin oil joint venture off the coast of Western Australia, 15 years after operations first started.
Galaxy Resources has extended its relationship with unlisted public company General Mining Corporation, with the pair forming an alliance to explore for lithium in Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
Bibra Lake-based Mineral Resources will earn a large share of the profits after it struck a farm-in agreement with Reed Resources over the Mount Marion lithium project in the Goldfields region.
The merger between Subiaco-based Sylvania Resources and Finnish company Ruukki Group has been terminated due to difficulties experienced with the merger implementation.
Shares in East Perth-based Legacy Iron Ore have surged 67 per cent higher after it entered into a potential joint venture deal with Lachlan Capital Partners over its Robertson Range and Hamersley iron ore projects in the Pilbara.
Woodside Petroleum remains confident of pushing ahead with its fast-tracked expansion of its Pluto liquefied natural gas project, despite missing out on third party gas supply agreements to rival LNG developer Chevron.
West Perth-based Sphere Investments has extended the sale process of a 51 per cent stake in the Geulb el Aouj iron ore project in Mauritania as $US500 million is shaved off the capital cost estimate.
Training Minister Peter Collier has today opened a simulated underground mine at Central Tafe, which will give students a taste of underground mining life without leaving the city.
Apache Corporation and Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co have teamed up with Chevron over the $25 billion Wheatstone gas project, leaving Woodside Petroleum to look elsewhere for extra gas supply sources for its Pluto expansion.
Red Fork Energy expects to make an additional $1 million each year in revenue after it struck a deal with a US company to market gas from its Pawnee prospect.
Shares in Sandfire Resources climbed higher today after exploration work pointed to a new discovery at its Doolgunna copper-gold project, 150 kilometres from Meekatharra.
Joint venture partners Nido Petroleum and Kairiki Energy have sold a combined 15 per cent interest in the Tindalo oil project in the Philippines to international commodities trader, Trafigura, for $12.7 million.
BHP Billiton chairman Don Argus says Australia needs policies to ensure foreigners do not squeeze out locals to invest in the country's natural resources.
Galaxy Resources says it will award a key contract for its Jiangsu lithium processing facility after today revealing a slight increase in the operation's capital cost estimate of $55 million.
South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries and GE Oil and Gas have been awarded a collective $2.46 billion worth of work on the Gorgon gas project, taking the total amount of contracts awarded to just under $9.5 billion.
Environmental bonds for the state's mining industry will remain unchanged until the end of next year, as the government extends the existing moratorium to help miners weather the global economic crises.
Shares in Po Valley Energy closed higher today as it began commissioning its first gas field in Italy, with first gas sales expected by the end of the year.
