Danakali has appointed Danny Goeman as chief executive. Mr Goeman is a highly experienced mining industry professional who joined Danakali in 2016 as head of marketing.
Joseph B'Oris has been appointed chief development officer of Liquefied Natural Gas where he will join the corporate leadership team and have overall responsibility for all aspects of commercial de
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Oil and gas explorer New Standard Energy has freed itself of debt after selling its Cooper Basin and US assets to Sundance Energy in a deal valued at $24 million.
New Standard Energy has secured $US3 million ($A3.9 million) from its existing debt facility with Credit Suisse to provide working capital while it continues transaction discussions with unnamed parties.
Salaries for newly-appointed chief executives at WA-listed companies were down by 20 per cent from the levels prevailing last year, research by Business News has found. Click through to see salary packages for 77 WA chief executives.
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West Perth-based oil and gas junior New Standard Energy has announced further cuts to its workforce in response to the falling oil price environment, with just four employees remaining across Austr
Miro Advisors has been selected by oil and gas explorer New Standard Energy to manage the farm-out of its Western Australian exploration acreage, continuing four years of rapid growth for the Perth advisory firm, as detailed in this week's edition of Business News.
The entry of two European energy companies into WA will help to bolster activity in the onshore oil and gas sector, which is set for a pick-up after a series of disappointments.
Oil and gas explorer New Standard Energy has sought to assure shareholders it is committed to its projects in Western Australia after deferring all of its Canning and Carnarvon Basin drilling activity until 2015.
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.
Mining and engineering contractors were the biggest losers today when the S&P Dow Jones rebalanced all of its Australian indices, with RCR Tomlinson one of the few to buck the trend.
New Standard Energy has reported a profit of $1.2 million for the half financial year ended December 31, with an income tax benefit helping shift its performance back into the black.
New Standard Energy plans to diversify its interests in the oil and gas sector by completing a farm-in agreement in the Cooper Basin in South Australia and acquiring 5,182 acres in a Texas oil shale asset.
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.
Western Australia's huge – if largely unproven – potential to host massive so-called unconventional oil and gas resources has already caught the eyes of some major international energy majors. 
Applecross based Hawk Resources Ltd has reached agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the issued capital of oil and gas exploration company New Standard Energy Ltd.
