Dampier to Bunbury gas pipeline owner DBP Transmission has completed negotiations with a majority of customers that use its pipeline, in a move it says will reduce its long term risk profile.
Buru Energy's planned ‘tight gas' testing program in the remote Canning Basin will not require formal environmental assessment after minister Albert Jacob upheld the Environmental Protection Author
Fortescue Metals Group has called for the phasing out of the state government's contentious domestic gas reservation policy, which has traditionally been backed by big gas buyers, in favour of stricter application of the ‘use it or lose it' rules.
Aluminium producer Alcoa of Australia, miner BHP Billiton and national broadcaster ABC have been named the top places to work in Western Australia, according to a survey by recruitment specialist R
Shares in cashed-up Moly Mines have slumped after the company's two most senior executives left the business and it admitted it was likely to suspend trading on the ASX after failing to acquire a new business.
The Western Australian Museum Foundation is in the final stages of establishing governance and investment structures to support what it hopes will be the largest cultural endowment fund in Australia.
Empire Oil & Gas has appointed an independent chief executive to lead the business following a board overhaul last year which claimed the scalps of each of its former directors.
The new directors of Empire Oil & Gas have admitted the company's financial position is worse than originally anticipated, with an initial review revealing a raft of performance issues at its flagship Red Gully gas and condensate processing facility.
Former Gindalbie Metals boss Garret Dixon has joined Watpac as a non-executive director, signaling the company's interest in building up the Perth-headquartered mining contracting division of its b
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.
Alumina producer Alcoa of Australia has revealed it's cutting dozens of jobs from its local operations and pushing all of its contractors to slash their rates by 12 per cent.
The past year has been tough for listed WA companies looking to raise funds but a lift in activity during the past three months has the industry cautiously optimistic.
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.
Fabrication, construction and services firm AusGroup has announced a $36 million contract win with Alcoa for works at the global aluminium giant's Kwinana, Pinjarra and Wagerup refineries.
Shale gas in the US contributed around $80 billion to its GDP and created more than 900,000 jobs, but a new financial analysis has shown developing Australia's vast shale gas resources will cost up
Alcoa has announced it will review its alumina refining system, including its facilities in Western Australia, as the global aluminium giant seeks to cut costs in a weak industrial metals market.
SCULPTURE by the Sea has opened for its ninth year at Cottesloe Beach this week, and for the first time visitors will be asked to donate a gold coin to keep the free event viable.
Western Australia has an abundance of gas and explorers are looking for more, both offshore and onshore, but there are questions over how much growth the industry can sustain.
RETAIL giants Wesfarmers and Woolworths continue to employ more people in Western Australia than any other private sector employers, with the introduction of Sunday trading boosting part-time and c
Alcoa of Australia has become the first company to enter an annual compliance arrangement with the Australian Tax Office for four separate taxes: income tax, fringe benefits tax, GST and excise fue
WOODSIDE Petroleum, Squire Sanders, Atlas Iron and Deloitte are among the organisations behind the Corporate Volunteering Council in WA, which was created in a bid to grow volunteering across the s
AS the world enters its fifth year of economic turbulence and even the best-insulated businesses in Western Australia are being affected, the factors that determine business influence in this state
Perth-based oil and gas junior Buru Energy has extended its gas supply agreement with Alcoa by one year, giving it more time to establish sufficient reserves to commence supply of the gas.
ERM Power and its joint venture partners Empire Oil & Gas and Wharf Resources have signed a gas supply agreement with Alcoa of Australia for gas from its Gingin West and Red Gully gas fields, o
ALCOA'S global refining research and development team based at its Kwinana alumina refinery has received its third award in the past year for new technology that reduces the company's energy use.
