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Electrical contractor ECM Global Project Partners has signed two contracts for work on the Roy Hill and Sino Iron projects in the Pilbara worth $110 million collectively.

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.

Perth recruiter Harrier Human Capital has won an outsourcing contract with retail giant Coles to manage recruitment of the supermarket's 1,200 support centre positions as well as hundreds of leadership roles across the country.

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.

Engineering contractor Monadelphous Group has been awarded a $200 million extension to its facilities management services contract at Chevron's Gorgon project on Barrow Island.

Perth-based Resource Development Group has completed its acquisition of Central Systems today, as the new group looks towards growth and diversification.

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

Woodside, WorleyParsons and KBR were awarded the overall prize at the 2014 WA Engineering Excellence awards last night for their project entry, the $5 billion North Rankin Redevelopment project, which exports gas to the Karratha gas plant.

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

Speculation is mounting that Apache Energy is set to spin-out its Western Australian assets into a separate entity, with Macquarie Capital Advisers appointed to act on its behalf.

The state coalition alliance partners may revert to the squabbling siblings of old if Nationals members feel their needs are being ignored.

Global Construction Services says its 2014 financial year earnings were hit by delays in major projects in the Perth CBD moving from approval to construction and a slowdown in resources-sector demand in the Pilbara, leading to a near-50 per cent fall in net profit.

Engineering and construction contractor Decmil Group says its evolution into civil construction projects has helped drive a 10 per cent lift in net profit, while flagging further earnings growth th

Perth-based Handley Surveys has been given a $25 million two-year extension to its contract with Bechtel for surveying services to the Chevron-operated Wheatstone project.

Channel Nine's wide-ranging search for a new home has speculatively linked the station with a variety of developments, including the state government's Elizabeth Quay project.

Western Australia is once again the key player in a money flood, though this time it's outgoing rather than incoming.

US-based oil and gas company Apache Corporation has admitted it intends to completely exit liquefied natural gas projects, including its 13 per cent interest in Chevron's Wheatstone project.

Chevron Australia has awarded a five-year contract for the supply of hire equipment services to Coates Hire West.

Commercial real estate agency Colliers International has been appointed to sell engineering group Bradken's old foundry site in Henderson, expecting the 20,500 square metre site to attract offers e

FEATURE: Perth is in the middle of its biggest wave of office construction in decades, but a sustained burst of new supply means future prospects for commercial developers are increasingly bleak.

The sale of LandCorp's large scale residential lots in Onslow has begun, with local residents to be given pre-release preferences.

Geraldton-based Bhagwan Marine has become Australia's largest vessel hire business with the acquisition of Brisbane-based MDT Maritime.

Chevron has marked a significant milestone at its 80 per cent completed Gorgon liquefied natural gas project, receiving the final module required for its gas processing train on Barrow Island.

Shell's move out of Woodside has opened up a range of scenarios as major players jostle for a stake of WA's LNG riches.

Rising Stars finalist Monford Group says client satisfaction has been the key to its rapid growth.

Giving managers responsibility for making decisions relevant to their sections is crucial at marine services business TAMS Group, which has steadily added new capabilities and staff to differentiate itself as a full service provider in a market full of specialists.

IT consultant Velrada has built its business on providing niche software solutions.

FEATURE: A WA company has proved its detractors among the local manufacturing sector wrong with its calculated growth plans.

FEATURE: A Subiaco based-company is using marine drones and its global remote monitoring system to deliver benefits for the offshore oil and gas industry.

FEATURE: Floating LNG will provide limited local construction, manufacturing and engineering opportunities, but could propel WA to the world stage.

Woodside Petroleum has more than doubled its intake of graduates, from 50 hired in 2013 to 115 expected to start next year.

Major redevelopment projects are transforming Perth's CBD, but only one precinct seems to be attracting anchor tenants.

International engineering contractor Bechtel is seeking to diversify its local business by securing work on sustaining capital projects in the mining sector.

SPECIAL REPORT: Power and influence in WA is adjusting to a new order after the boom.

SPECIAL REPORT: Global economic forces, a national election and state political exits have shaped the 2014 Most Influential list.

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.

Engineering and consulting services company Logicamms has signed contracts with Samsung C&T Corporation, Chevron Australia and Oil Search for a combined contract value of about $15 million.

Kashif Saleem arrived in Perth without a dollar to his name; now his technology is in demand from the world's most valuable companies.

SPECIAL REPORT: Law firms are having to adapt as more businesses build in-house legal teams and squeeze billing rates.

The federal government has failed to give enough consideration to the economic and domestic gas supply implications of floating LNG technology (FLNG), a Western Australian parliamentary inquiry has found.