Chevron Australia has moved another step closer to completion of the Gorgon gas project, with a commissioning LNG cargo arriving at Barrow Island to cool down the storage and loading facilities prior to commencement of exports.
WA chief executives are hoping a federal election year and a new direction from Malcolm Turnbull will ignite reforms needed to get the state moving again, according to the latest CEO survey by Business News.
Bentley-based biotech company Recce has popped the cork on its first day of trading on the ASX, following completion of a $5 million initial public offering.
Mining giant BHP Billiton will write down the value of its onshore US oil and gas assets by more than 30 per cent as it factors in the slump in crude oil prices.
The Australian share market has opened higher, driven by resource and financial stocks after a strong performance on Wall Street as the US earnings season got off to a strong start.
Gold has fallen sharply to a one-and-a-half-week low, pressured by a US Federal Reserve president's comments about potentially rethinking further rate hikes, triggering technical sell signals while
Grain handler CBH Group has revealed an $82.7 million net profit for the 2014-15 year, although its storage and handling business performed much better than the larger trading arm.
Stockbroker Andrew Frazer is planning to keep together his 12-strong team in Perth and Sydney, after current backer GMP Securities announced a major restructuring of its international operations.
Local miner Pilbara Minerals is threatening legal action against its former joint venture partner after discovering problems with the plant at its Tabba Tabba tantalite project, which was completed in November.
Western Australians donating household items for people affected by the bushfires in the South West have been so generous that St Vincent de Paul Society WA has been inundated with goods exceeding its capacity to deliver them.
Mining equipment supplier Emeco Holdings has announced a deterioration of its Canadian operations as a result of the depressed oil price, but still expects to lift underlying earnings from a weak FY15 result.
Dick Smith's fate may not be decided for another six months, with administrators set to apply for more time to investigate the downfall of the electrical retailer.
The executive chairman of Wembley-based ACI Broking Services has been banned from providing financial services for four years by the corporate watchdog.
Western Australia's unemployment rate fell 0.3 points, to 6.3 per cent, in seasonally adjusted terms in December, as 8,000 people took on new employment.
Northern Star Resources and Regis Resources have capped off a positive first half of the financial year for gold miners, with December quarter results released today.
Perth-based conglomerate Wesfarmers is poised to make its first major move outside Australasia, offering $A700 million to acquire the Homebase home improvement chain in the UK and revealing plans to develop a new Bunnings-branded business in that market.
