Edited announcement

A Collie power station that was decommissioned last year is to be made ready for service in response to the current gas shortage.

US energy company Hess Corporation has discovered natural gas in upper Jurassic sandstones on the Northwest Shelf.

Subiaco-based mineral exploration TNG Ltd has raised nearly $2.9 million following a non-renouceable rights issue.

The state government has awarded a $3 million contract to Belmont-based J J MacDonald and Sons to improve boat-launching facilities at Woodman Point.

West Perth-based exploration company Centaurus Resources Ltd has withdrawn from its purchase of the Ipe manganese project in Brazil.

Embattled petroleum company Baraka Petroleum Ltd has withdrawn from the Mali and La Punta projects, following its path into voluntary administration last month.

Premier Alan Carpenter has today announced the appointment of Anne Nolan to the position of director general, Department of Industry and Resources.

West Perth-based Bonaparte Diamond Mines NL has completed a placement of 24.5 million ordinary shares at a price of 8 cents per share.

Shares in Perth-based uranium explorer Extract Resources Ltd have been locked in a trading halt as it undertakes a capital raising.

Aspiring power generation company Aviva Corporation and ARC Energy have agreed to partner up to study the potential for sequestration of carbon dioxide in depleted oil and gas reservoirs in the North Perth Basin.

Mineral sands miner Iluka Resources Ltd has been allocated an initial supply of gas from Alinta to power its Western Australian operations.

West Perth-based Marine Produce Australia Ltd has appointed businessman Miles Kennedy as its non-executive chairman effective immediately.

Perth-based global drug delivery company, pSivida Ltd has received approval from the Federal Court of Australia for its reincorporation in the United States.

The state's current gas crisis is proving to be a boon for West Perth-based biodiesel company Australian Renewable Fuels Ltd, which today received a purchase order for the immediate supply of 500,000 litres of biodiesel.

Perth-based engineering company Neptune Marine Services Ltd's subsidiary, Tri-Surv Geomatics, has been awarded an offshore hydrographic survey contract worth more than $8 million.

VDM Group Ltd's Western Australian subsidiary, Wylie & Skene Pty Ltd, has been awarded five new contracts totaling some $60 million.

Minara Resources Ltd today confirmed that it has secured temporary gas supply and delivery arrangements for its Murrin Murrin operation following the fire which has disrupted gas supply from Apache Energy's Varanus facility.

West Perth-based miner Kagara Ltd has expanded its resource portfolio after agreeing to pay $6.5 million plus royalties to Glengarry Resources Ltd for the Maitland copper deposit in Queensland.

Subiaco-based exploration company Crescent Gold Ltd has avoided heading to court following a $1.9 million settlement with contractor Bemex Corporation Pty Ltd.

The minimum wage for adult employees on State awards - most of them women - will rise by $29 a week to $557.40 from July 1.

There was strong support from existing shareholders for West Perth-based iron ore explorer Polaris Metals rights issue which raised $11.6 million from a rights issue.

Ausdrill Ltd today reaffirmed its opposition to Macmahon Holdings Ltd's takeover offer, saying directors and other shareholders with 39.1 per cent of its stock would not accept the offer.

Oil and gas exploration company Sun Resources NL has secured funding for its Thailand joint venture project, with exploration to start in a few weeks.

West Perth-based metals explorer Reed Resources Ltd has received confirmed commitments to a capital raising that will fast track its Barrambie vanadium project.

Balcatta-based Orbital Corporation Ltd has acquired Australian LPG fuel systems supplier, Boral Alternative Fuel Systems, for $1.6 million.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will begin its review of BHP Billiton Ltd's proposed $200 billion acquisition of Rio Tinto Ltd after paperwork for the takeover was filed today.

West Perth-based nickel producer Nickelore Ltd has opted for a 25,000-tonne heap leach demonstration plant at its Canegrass nickel-cobalt Project in the state's Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields.

West Perth-based nickel miner Mincor Resources NL has moved to accelerate one of its key exploration ventures in the zinc-lead industry after securing a joint venture with major Japanese Government entity, JOGMEC.

Perth oil and gas explorer Nuenco NL has executed a gas sales agreement for all production from the Southeast Lost Hills projects with a major Californian oil and gas company.

A Public Private Partnership project between the state government and Western Liberty Group has been delivered with the completion of one of Perth's new District Court building.

The City of Perth has budgeted a revenue increase of 11.7 per cent for fiscal 2009 as expenditure on capital projects rise.

Less than a week after it acquired CSR Motorcycles Spain, Perth-based scooter company Vmoto Ltd has signed an agreement to supply 3000 scooters over a 12 month period to Spanish company, Gruppo Aupper.