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Nextgen Group has signed a deal to supply Hancock Prospecting's Roy Hill iron ore project in the Pilbara with a high-speed data connection.

Marine services provider MMA Offshore said it was progressing towards its previously announced $15 million cost savings target, while the company suffers reduced demand and lower fleet utilisation.

Global energy companies Chevron, Shell, Inpex and Woodside Petroleum have agreed to jointly fund development of new systems to improve tropical cyclone forecasting in northern Australia.

Perth will play host to chief executives from seven of the world's biggest energy and engineering companies during the LNG18 conference, to be held in April next year.

KPMG has secured backing from more than a dozen major businesses for its Energise technology accelerator, which will provide financial and in-kind support to eight startup businesses servicing the energy and resources sector.

Multinational oil and gas service providers have set up in WA for the long haul, as the state searches for the best way to enhance its competitive advantage.

East Timor's resources minister Alfredo Pires has revealed new studies by his country show an onshore liquefied natural gas plant for Woodside's shelved Sunrise project is a commercially viable option.

Chevron and Shell have singled out high costs as a major challenge facing Western Australia's ability to further develop its globally recognised oil and gas industry.

WA Skills Training has secured an estimated $2 million per year deal with the Malaysian government to deliver training for both Malaysians and Australians seeking work on major resource projects.

BHP Billiton and CSIRO have announced they will spend $5 million over five years in a partnership to increase the scientific community's understanding of the Ningaloo Reef.

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.

Perth's office market remains on solid footing despite a rising vacancy rate that's forecast to peak at 19 per cent in 2016, with pundits saying the state's strong economic fundamentals and a small construction pipeline past 2015 will bring balance back into the sector.

The residential component of the Kings Square precinct is to take shape in coming months, with Seven Group Holdings appointing architecture firm Woods Bagot to design two 50-storey apartment towers

Nextgen Group has upped its investment in a telecommunications cable servicing resources companies in Western Australia's north-west.

The peak national body for engineers has revealed a strong desire among its members in Western Australia to be engaged in the industry's nascent floating liquefied natural gas developments.

Shell Australia has become the third major petroleum producer to partner with Western Australia's leading energy research group, in a move that is expected to provide a host of opportunities for local input and collaboration on the $12 billion Prelude floating liquefied natural gas project.

Transfield Services has signed an agreement to provide multidiscipline implementation services on the offshore facilities of the Woodside Petroleum-operated North West Shelf project.

Telstra has won a contract to build a 500-kilometre subsea telecommunications cable for Chevron in an effort to improve communications across the company's projects in the state's north-west.

Leighton Properties has revealed the simultaneous construction of its Kings Square precinct's four office towers was a condition of international oil and gas giant Shell taking up an entire building at the development in the Perth CBD.

Perth-based engineering and construction contractor Civmec has reported a 37.7 per cent rise in net profit for the September quarter to $S11 million, and a 140 per cent leap in revenue to $S170.2 million.

Wesfarmers has appointed Maya vanden Driesen to the position of group general counsel, putting her in charge of a national team of 42 in-house lawyers.

A new report says governments will need to balance the need to keep gas prices low for local consumers with securing royalties from producers.

Nextgen Group will start building its $120 million subsea cable in the Pilbara in December with a final completion date set for the first half of 2016.

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-headquartered international oil and gas services firm ASCO Group has officially opened a $110 million supply base facility at Darwin Port.

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.

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.

Overseas and interstate retailers are lining up to be part of an emerging new precinct in the Perth CBD.

FEATURE: The state's premier oil and gas training institute has joined forces with Northern Territory-based Charles Darwin University in the search for a training provider to tackle a looming oil and gas skills shortage.

FEATURE: The writing was on the wall, and has been for more than a decade. Royal Dutch Shell's divestment of most of its 23 per cent stake in Woodside Petroleum last week surprised few in the business community.

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

The resources sector continues to be critical to WA's prosperity but smaller, less glamorous industries also have great stories to tell.

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.

BGC Contracting has joined forces with Western Australian business FIFO Families to offer its 2,000 fly-in, fly-out workers and their families access to extra support.

The resources sector will struggle to find enough skilled workers to drive production on the LNG plants expected to come on-stream in the next few years.

In this week's edition of Business News Background, head of content Mark Pownall and news editor Mark Beyer discuss Woodside Petroleum's exit from Leviathan, Craig Serjeant and John Gannon's SFG takeover by IOOF Holdings, Shell to take a whole tower in the new Kings Square development, worker shortage in the LNG sector but job shortage for engineers and a huge pull-out feature in our paper this week - Giving Well, your guide on giving.

St Andrew's Church on St Georges Terrace will remain closed for the foreseeable future due to structural issues, unless the Uniting Church can secure an anchor tenant for a planned 22-storey office tower.

Global energy giant Shell has expanded its footprint at Leighton Properties and DEXUS Property Group's Kings Square, signing up to take up a further 5,847 square metres of office space in the devel

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