The recent publication of two listings of influential business leaders provided food for thought about the growing international influence on Western Australia.
A council representing industry heavyweights including BHP Billiton and Alcoa has thrown its support behind the City of Kwinana's proposal to take over part of the City of Cockburn and assume responsibility for the Kwinana industrial strip.
Shell Australia boss Andrew Smith has defended his company's decision to walk away from an onshore gas development at James Price Point at an at-times heated parliamentary committee inquiry.
Empire Oil & Gas is facing a board upheaval with its biggest shareholder and joint venture partner ERM Power calling a meeting of shareholders to consider removing Empire's executive chairman and two other directors.
The highly-prospective Browse gas fields off the north-west of the state will be developed using floating liquefied natural gas technology, the project's proponents have confirmed today.
Two new oil and gas research initiatives have received promises of federal funding, with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talking up the future of the sector in Western Australia today.
A newly completed study of cities focused on the energy sector has ranked Perth high on the list of international destinations, as an increasing number of global oil and gas companies build their p
Stewart Gallagher has replaced Ben Coetzer as general manager of North West Shelf Gas, the domestic gas marketing agency for the North West Shelf Venture oil & gas joint venture between Woodsid
The federal government has granted offshore petroleum exploration permits to four companies, including Woodside Petroleum and BP, to operate in Western Australia and South Australia.
BP PLC says it is selling several major assets to Apache Corp for $US7 billion ($A8.06 billion) to help pay the costs from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
OIL giant BP has approved a further big-ticket upgrade of its Kwinana oil refinery aimed at producing cleaner fuel for WA motorists as part of a major three-year investment program at the site.
BP has entered a deal to sell gas from an offshore Western Australian gas field to Shell and then buy it back as liquefied natural gas after it has been processed through the Gorgon LNG project.
Engineering company WorleyParsons Ltd has been awarded a five-year maintenance contact at BP's Kwinana oil refinery, expected to generate revenue of $70 million.
Manufacturing is widely perceived to be an industry in terminal decline, so it's rather surprising that the Australian Bureau of Statistics found it to be one of Western Australia's biggest industry sectors, supporting more than 100,000 jobs.
PRODUCTION of hydrogen is not the challenge in using hydrogen as a new transportation fuel. BP's Kwinana refinery is producing up to 80 tonnes of hydrogen each day.
EXTENDED production testing from two onshore oil wells near Dongara has delivered an additional 30,000 barrels to BP's Kwinana refinery over the past two weeks.
ENERGY industry giant BP, which has not missed out on a share of business from China's first gas processing venture in Guangdong province, now also looks a likely winner for an upcoming project in the Fujian province.
BP Australasia regional president Greg Bourne has often been called on to defend his company, sometimes in good humoured exchanges with friends, other times in more serious forums.
