The North West Shelf's six joint venture partners have yet to declare their hand as a deadline for ending their joint gas marketing agreement draws near.
US company Hess Corporation has moved closer to developing its large Equus gas field off the WA coast, after striking an agreement to process the gas through the North West Shelf venture's Karratha plant.
A business led by Northern Star Resources chairman Chris Rowe has capitalised on cost cutting by oil and gas companies to position itself among the world's elite commercial operators of underwater drones.
The Woodside Petroleum-led North West Shelf venture has agreed to proceed with its $1.2 billion Persephone gas project off the Western Australian coast.
The Woodside-led North West Shelf joint venture has struck a new supply agreement that will deliver a small increase in the amount of gas coming into the local market but there is still no word on the future of contracts that account for more than half the state's domestic supply.
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.
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.
Woodside Petroleum fell below its targeted spend on social investment programs last year, despite more than $9 million flowing to the communities in which it operates.
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Erick Weston has been appointed as general manager of the North West Shelf Shipping Service Company, to replace Warwick Pointon who ended his term in July.
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
Global Construction Services has won a new contract to provide all of the onshore and offshore scaffolding works for Woodside Petroleum's North West Shelf project.
Giant liquefied natural gas projects like Gorgon and Pluto dominate coverage of the oil and gas sector, yet there are plenty of other developments under way.
IT'S almost five years to the day since Pilbara Access began as a five-man operation, providing specialist-scaffolding services to the mining industry based out of Newman.
Property and business services has been the fastest growing industry sector in Western Australia over the past 20 years, Australian Bureau of Statistics data has found.
When nickel producer Minara Resources decided last year to pursue the development of a $25 million heap leach demonstration plant, it ran into an unexpected problem.
Development of the North West Shelf Venture's $1.6 billion Angel gas and condensate field off the north west of Western Australia will begin immediately following final investment decisions by all of the joint venture participants.
