Arafura Resources has formally cancelled an agreement to purchase an industrial site in Whyalla, South Australia as part of its cost-savings initiatives.
Interstate business travel into Western Australia has fallen 6 per cent during the past year, and much of the blame is being sheeted home to the drop in resources activity.
The parent company of Perth business Arccon has been placed into administration, just six days after veteran engineer Robert Wilde was elected as chairman.
The Australian dollar has fallen below the 92 US cent mark as a report showing weakness in Chinese manufacturing adds to worries about the US Federal Reserve scaling back economic stimulus measures
One of the challenges in running a university, like many not-for-profit operations, is the search for private benefactors to boost the funds available to offer their services.
If Prime Minister Julia Gillard hoped to bring certainty when she unexpectedly called the September 14 election date back in January, a leading business group says it hasn't worked.
Rialto Energy is seeking to raise up to $21 million to fund exploration and development work at its oil and gas acreage off the coast of Cote d’Ivoire.
Australian shares suffered their worst loss in a day since February amid jitters over a cutback in US stimulus measures and weaker than expected Chinese manufacturing data.
Forge Group’s newly acquired US-based subsidiary Taggart Global has been named preferred contractor for a $US221 million engineering and construction contract at the Vista coal project in Alberta,
Traditional owners have vowed to challenge the legal status of a new agreement between the state government and two companies seeking to exploit shale gas in the Canning Basin.
Shares in mining equipment supplier Emeco Holdings have fallen sharply today to a four-and-a-half year low after the company downgraded its profit forecast for the second time in two months.
When the Varanus Island gas explosion occurred in 2008, wiping out a third of Western Australia’s gas supplies and causing $3 billion in damage to the state’s economy, securing an alternative energ
A bid by former MP Adele Carles to sue millionaire property developer Nigel Satterley over comments he made about her affair with state Treasurer Troy Buswell has been withdrawn.
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
Engineering firms exposed to mining are going through a tough patch but prospects are much better for those like Technip and Clough in the oil & gas sector.
Gold miner Reed Resources has announced a series of operational setbacks at its recently opened Meeekatharra operation, triggering a slump in its share price to a new closing low of 3.7 cents.
