Kemerton Waste Water Treatment Plant
An open tender has just closed (22 May 2001) for the design, construction, testing commissioning, operation and maintenance of Stage 1, Kemerton Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The plant, which is located approximately 16km north east of Bunbury, also replaces the smaller ones at Australind and E...
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Munni Munni likely to become Australia’s first mine for platinum group metals (PGMs)
Helix Resources has secured the backing of Lonmin PLC the world’s third-largest platinium producer, aimed at developing Australia’s first platinium mine.A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed in May with Lonmin covering Helix’s Munni Munni PGMs project near Karratha in Western Australia. The...
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Portman’s expansion of Koolyanobbing iron ore mine consolidates
Portman’s long-term expansion plans for the company, based on its processing operations at Koolyanobbing, was on target as it passed a major milestone on its way to becoming an 8 million tonne per annum ore producer over a 20 year plus mine life.The company recently announced it had lifted total rec...
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Jervois Mining gains access to new lateritic process
Jervois Mining’s quarterly report to March 2001 confirmed that the company had gained access to a new process for the recovery of nickel and cobalt metal from laterite ores.A Confidentiality Agreement has been entered into with an overseas group, with appropriate expertise, who offered the innovativ...
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Goldfields Esperance Region Water Supply
The Department of Resources Development (DRD), working with the Water and Rivers Commission has identified that the limited water resources available locally in the Goldfields region would be insufficient to meet the demand of the industry and possibly domestic users in the longer term.DRD’s Goldfie...
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Ardlethan Tin Project, NSW
Commencement of commissioning in May of Stage 1 of the reopened Ardlethan tin mine in NSW (500km south west of Sydney) will make Marlborough Resources NL the country’s newest producer of the metal. Tin production is planned for the third quarter of 2001, the project is proceeding within budget and t...
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New power station for Victoria
A peak demand power station with a generation capacity of 300 megawatts should be under construction in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria by this summer.The $150 million Edison Mission Energy power station would improve the security of electricity supply in Victoria and would create up to 200 jobs in t...
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Austral Coal to fast track Tahmoor mine expansion, NSW
Austral Coal will move quickly to fast track expansion of its Tahmoor mine following finalisation of an independent bankable feasibility study by International Mining Consultants (IMC) confirming the mine’s world class potential with a valuation of more than $163 million.The seven-month IMC study re...
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Tasmanian Gas Pipeline
International energy company Duke Energy International (DEI) recently awarded a $100 million contact to OneSteel Market Mills, Australia, for supply of pipe to the Tasmanian Gas Pipeline project.The contract proved the reality of Australia’s biggest subsea pipeline project that will bring natural ga...
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Victoria-to-South Australia Gas Pipeline development
The developers of the proposed 630 km gas pipeline from Victoria to South Australia have announced they have established a joint venture company named South East Australia Gas Pty Ltd (SEA Gas) to build the gas pipeline.SEA Gas, which is jointly owned by Australian National Power and Origin Energy, ...
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New heavy minerals deposit in Murray Basin, NSW
BeMaX Resources NL, on the basis of recent drilling (18045m), announced an Inferred Resource of 104 million tonnes at an average grade of 4.8 per cent heavy minerals (HM) for the BIP Joint Venture’s Snapper Deposit about 10km south-west of the Ginkgo Deposit in the northern Murray Basin, NSW.This d...
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Legendre venture achieves first oil
Woodside Energy Ltd., operator of the Legendre Venture, has announced that initial oil production from the offshore production facility, Ocean Legend, has commenced.The Ocean Legend is located over the Legendre North and Legendre South oil fields in Production Licence WA-20-L, about 100 kilometres n...
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Laminaria Phase 11 Development Approval
Participants in the project have given final investment approval for the Laminaria Phase II development. Woodside Energy Ltd is the operator of the Laminaria and Corallina Oil fields in the Timor Sea. Capital expenditure will be approximately A$130 million with Woodside’s share being approximately A...
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Hardman Resources hits oil off Mauritania
Mr Ted Ellyard, the head of Western Australia company Hardiman Resources NL, said that over six years of perseverance and commitment by Hardman has led to the first wildcat well off the coast of Mauritania produced excellent results.From the sparse information released on 16 May, analysts deduced th...
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Choice of gas retailer for householders and small business
Addressing an Australian Institute of Energy function in Perth on 17 May 2001, Energy Minister Mr Eric Ripper said the Gallop Government was committed to giving 430,000 household and small business gas users a choice of gas suppliers from July 1, 2002. The strategy to end AlintaGas’ monopoly and int...
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Electricity market to face more competition
Deputy Premier and Energy Minister Mr Eric Ripper said on 17/5/01 that Western Australia’s electricity market is to face a radical overhaul in a plan to be put to State Cabinet within weeks.The Government was keen to introduce more competition into the electricity market, currently dominated by West...
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DRD Review 2001 – WA Oil & Gas Industry
The Department of Resource
Development (DRD) has just issued its annual review (2001) of Western Australian Oil & Gas Industry.The Minister for State Development, Mr Clive Brown, said that petroleum - oil, gas and condensate – is WA’s largest resource industry.The year 2000 was notable for boomin...
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Western Australian Infrastructure Briefing
The 3rd annual state event examining major infrastructure investment opportunities and developments for the public and private sector is being held:Date: 20 & 21 August 2001Venue: Sheraton Hotel, Adelaide Terrace, Perth, WAThe briefing will be followed by a separately bookable half day workshop at t...
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Western Australia Power Conference
The fifth annual conference will be held:Dates: 27 – 28 June 2001Venue: Sheraton Hotel, Adelaide Terrace, PerthA keynote address outlining current trends and future challenges facing the changing power industry will be delivered by Energy Minister Mr Eric Ripper (or key adviser).For details on topic...
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SEAAOC 2001 tackles the Timor Gap issues
The critical relationship between Australia and East Timor will dominate the 7th annual South East Asia Australia Offshore Conference to be held in Darwin from 18-19 June 2001. A post conference industry briefing “Doing business in the NT” will be held on 20 June from 8.30 am to
12 noon.The Confer...
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Australian Platinum Conference
Paydirt’s Australian Platinum Conference is to be held between 30 May – 1 June 2001 at the Rendezvous Observation City Hotel, Scarborough, Perth Western Australia.The Australian Platinum Conference will provide a global review and a comprehensive coverage of the escalating exploration for Platinum G...
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