Petroleum is WA's biggest export earner and if the discussions at this week’s Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association conference are any guide, oil and gas projects are set to make an even bigger contribution in the future.
Stock market volatility has put a dampener on the number of Western Australian companies that floated during the March quarter, but surprisingly, the amount of funds raised was 75 per cent higher than in the same period last year.
ARC Energy Ltd managing director Eric Streitberg has been awarded the gas industry’s highest award, the Reg Sprigg Medal for outstanding service to the industry.
Perth-based Nkwe Platinum Ltd has chosen to list on London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market, marking a change from the flurry of Australian resource companies turning their attention, and their pockets, towards Canada.
TAKEOVER target Midwest Corporation Ltd has announced a 10-week delay in completion of its pre-feasibility study for its flagship Weld Range iron ore project in the Mid West region, because of delays
Western Power has responded to the skilled labour shortages and rising costs in Western Australia by adopting a fundamentally different approach to its contracting and capital works program.
Two Western Australian mining companies have warmed to the idea of heading to the Arctic north, with Greenland becoming the main focus for Ironbark Gold Ltd and Greenland Minerals and Energy Ltd.
Kerry Stokes' Seven Network Ltd today continued its attack on the performance of West Australian Newspapers Holdings Ltd, arguing that WAN's improved quarterly results did not mean the company was "back on track".
Western Power has today signed a five year alliance agreement with Transfield Services, worth approximately $100 million in revenue in its first year of operation.
Perth-based CO2 Group Ltd has announced the company's 100% owned subsidiary CO2 Australia Ltd has reached agreement with Inpex Browse Ltd on a biosequestration assessment project to assess its potential in respect of the Ichthys field development.
The three major farming organisations representing rural water users in Western Australia, are estatic with the news that the second set of water licence fee regulations have been knocked back.
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West Perth-based Territory Resources Ltd announced today it has committed to spend $25 million over the next two years to substantially expand its resource base at the Frances Creek iron ore project in the Northern Territory.
Leederville-based uranium development company Bannerman Resources has today confirmed that the majority of its Opes Prime related holding has been sold.
Relations between Perth-based Crescent Gold Ltd and its former contractor Bemex Corporation Pty Ltd have soured as the companies head to court to resolve a $3 million dispute.
Osborne Park-based technology developer, Structural Monitoring Systems Plc has announced the successful trial installation of its comparative vacuum monitoring system (CVM) on a Boeing commercial aircraft.
Perth-based gold and copper explorer Sierra Mining Ltd has informed Medusa Mining Ltd that it has been unable to approve a planned joint venture agreement.
West Perth-based iron ore miner Murchison Metals Ltd has acquired two tenements from Austral Gold Ltd and Joytell Pty Ltd, to be known as the Rocklea Project, in the Pilbara iron ore region for a total cash consideration of $9 million.
West Perth-based Moly Mines Ltd has announced the completion of the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract with WorleyParsons for its 20 million tonne per annum Spinifex Ridge Molybdenum Project.
Gindalbie Metals Ltd has moved to substantially expand the scope of its iron ore business with the commencement of a feasibility study on increasing the start-up production rate of the Karara Magnetite Project from 8mt/annum to 12mt/annum.
West Perth-based clean coal technology developer Metex Resources Ltd, through its Joint Venture with CSIRO and Carbon Energy Pty Ltd (CEPL), has announced today that it had received all necessary approvals to proceed with a large-scale A$20 million Underg
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Newcrest Mining Ltd has agreed to farm into the Mount Mackenzie gold project in Queensland which is currently owned by Leederville-based SmartTrans Holdings Limited (60%) and Australia Oriental Minerals NL (40%).
Takeover target Midwest Corporation Ltd has announced a 10-week delay in completion of its pre-feasibility study for its flagship Weld Range iron ore project in the Mid West region, because of delays in its drilling programme.
