Western Australia has developed a strong edge in resources technology but must continue to invest in innovation as it faces competition from other regional players and beyond, according to the Western Australian Energy Research Alliance.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has been voted as Western Australia's most attractive employer at the annual Randstad Awards, a title it has won twice in three years.
Woodside Petroleum has provided some telling insights into how it plans to achieve $800 million in productivity gains by the end of next year; as well as chopping 600 jobs, it has slashed the number of vendors supplying its Australian business from 3,000 to 800.
Michael Chaney's return to Wesfarmers confirms his standing as the most influential company director in WA. Click through to see our listing of the 12 Most Influential company directors in WA.
The ‘iron ore wars' and budget battles are defining where power and influence lies in business and politics in WA. Read our latest Most Influential feature to see who is on the rise, whose influence is waning and who has dropped off the list.
Mount Gibson Iron has moved to establish a logistics base on Koolan Island, in partnership with Qube Holdings, to service the offshore oil and gas industry.
WA is poised to double its LNG production, but softer oil prices and global competition for capital mean there is much conjecture about the sector's future. Click through to see more on our major oil and gas projects feature.
Michael Chaney will take the role of chairman of conglomerate Wesfarmers when Bob Every retires at the company's next annual general meeting in November.
Former federal Treasury secretary Ken Henry will take the helm of National Australia Bank's board when chairman Michael Chaney retires at its next annual general meeting in December.
The commercial construction sector is emerging as a bright spot amid all the doom and gloom in WA. Click through to see the special report, with details of Perth's biggest construction jobs.
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.
Woodside Petroleum chairman Michael Chaney has set himself an ambitious goal, telling shareholders he wants to more than double the number of women on the company's board over the next two years.
Lower oil prices and sales coupled with a natural disaster contributed to a 20.1 per cent slide in Woodside Petroleum's revenue for the March quarter, but wrapping up its Apache Corporation asset purchase lifted contingent reserves by 151 per cent.
Woodside Petroleum has closed its $US854 million ($A1.1 billion) purchase of Apache Corporation's interests in the Kitimat LNG project in Canada, a week after finalising the WA component of the sale.
A new supply deal struck this week by Western Australia's largest buyer of domestic gas, Alcoa of Australia, has confirmed the availability of gas for customers prepared to pay the going price.
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.
New office builds and significant incentives for tenants to shift premises are ensuring Perth's interior design firms are kept busy, with fresh office fit-outs relying on technology to ensure flexibility and potential growth needs are met.
Woodside Petroleum has completed the purchase of Apache Corporation's interests in the Wheatstone and Balnaves projects, as speculation continues over the ownership of Apache's remaining Australian assets.
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.
Woodside Petroleum terminated the contracts of eight employees last year, mostly the result of fraud-related incidents, according to its latest sustainable development report.
Global technology company Cisco has announced plans to invest $US15 million over five years in an ‘internet of everything' innovation centre in Australia, with locations at Curtin University in Bentley and in Sydney.
EXCLUSIVE: Construction giant Brookfield Multiplex has taken the inside rail from rival Probuild to win the main construction contract for Woodside Petroleum's new headquarters at the Old Emu Brewery site on Mounts Bay Road.
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.
The Pilbara Ports Authority has begun clearing large vessels out of the ports of Dampier and Ashburton, ahead of a cyclone which is expected to hit the Pilbara coast by tomorrow morning.
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.
The consumer watchdog has given the green light to Woodside Petroleum's proposed purchase of oil and gas assets from US energy company Apache, after concluding it would not have a significant effect on the domestic gas market.
Some of the biggest names in WA business will help nurture the next wave of philanthropists in the state as part of an innovative program to raise money for the children's hospital.
Retailers and hospitality operators in the city have cashed in on the tour of The Giants, with 1.4 million people filling City of Perth streets for three days for the opening show of the Perth Inte
Oil and gas producer Beach Energy has flagged a $166 million writedown on the value of its assets, as a result the dramatic slide in global oil prices.
Rio Tinto's strong profit reported earlier today will please investors in one of state's biggest employers, though the big miner's fresh round of job shedding is a warning shot across the bows of the Western Australian economy, with more warning shots likely to be fired over the next 12 days.
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.
Cost wins out above all other considerations in the search for efficiency, which is why a strengthening US dollar could pose challenges for Caterpillar.
The number of people working on the Gorgon gas project on Barrow Island has jumped to 8,000, as project operator Chevron strives to meet its targeted start-up around the middle of this year.
