Public comment sought on Barrow Island
The WA public is invited to comment on advice prepared for the Government by three government agencies on the plan to allow access to a limited area of the ‘A’ Class nature reserve on Barrow Island for the Gorgon area gas development. The advice from the Department of Industry and Resources, Environ...
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Woodside signs FPSO contract for Enfield development
Woodside Energy has let the first major construction contract for its Enfield oil development off the North West Cape of WA. The contract for construction of the hull for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel has been signed with Samsung Heavy Industries, of South Korea. Design...
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Record daily oil production from Legendre oil field
A successful new horizontal development well has helped to increase production by about 17,000 barrels a day in permit WA-20-L at the Legendre oil field off WA. The Legendre field achieved its record result of 48,481 barrels of oil on 21 June 2003 after the drilling of a new horizontal infill develo...
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Construction of Darwin LNG plant underway
Construction has begun on the $1.5 billion Darwin LNG plant. The plant is the Northern Territory’s biggest ever private investment and part of the $2.3 billion development of the Bayu-Undan gas field in the Timor Sea. ConocoPhillips will build a pipeline from the Bayu-Undan gas field, about 500 km n...
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BHP Billiton announces oil discovery in Mexico
BHP has made an oil discovery at its second exploratory well on the Chinook prospect in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Drilled in water depths of approximately 2,684m, the well exceeds a total depth of 8,406m, encountering a gross hydrocarbon column of 188 m with 79 m of net oil pay. The Chinoo...
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Major electricity reforms under way
State Cabinet has given final approval to a plan to overhaul WA’s electricity market, a move strongly supported by CCI. The Government has decided to push back establishment of electricity wholesale market by a year, to July 2006, to allow sufficient time for development of market arrangements and i...
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Power upgrade for East Kimberley
Western Power will spend about $800,000 improving power supplies in the East Kimberley in 2003-04. Energy Minister Eric Ripper said a 1.5 km trench was being dug in Kununurra to carry a new $140,000 major electricity supply feeder line from Western Power’s power station to Lakeside. The Minister sai...
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Mid west power project-construction underway
Engineering and design is now substantially complete and site works and workshop fabrication for the power station has commenced. The 14 x12 m and 12 x16 m sea containers that will house the generating units have been ordered and are being delivered to StateWest Power’s Canning Vale facilities, wher...
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Call for expressions of interest for Port Pirie power station
Magnesium International Limited has announced its intention to call for Expressions of Interest from potential power station developers for the construction of a new power station at Port Pirie. MIL’s intention in issuing this EOI is to obtain an equity contribution towards its SAMAG magnesium proje...
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Jubilee to spend $7.5 million on exploration
Jubilee Mines will spend $7.5 million this financial year on exploration programs at the Cosmos nickel project, regional exploration projects in the Leinster-Mt Keith nickel belt and a renewed gold exploration program at Kathleen Valley. One million dollars will be spent on gold exploration at Kathl...
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$25 million to mine Enterprise Deposit on North Stradbroke Island
Following completion of an extensive evaluation process which included feasibility and mine optimisation studies, the Consolidated Rutile Limited Board has approved plans to upgrade the Ibis plant in early 2004 and to dredge directly from the Ibis mine to the Enterprises deposit once the upgrades ar...
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Transfield Services gold deal
Charters Towers Gold Mines and Transfield Services have entered a Heads of Agreement to establish an alliance contract for Transfield Services to provide project management services associated with the development of the giant Charters Towers goldfields, north Queensland. CTGM has developed the inno...
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Mehdiabad project, Iran
Queensland company United Capital has commenced studies into the feasibility of a staged development of its Mehdiabad Zinc, Silver and Lead project in Iran. The Mehdiabad deposit is unique among the world’s major zinc ore-bodies in that it’s by far the largest known zinc oxide deposit, amenable to p...
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ADI out of the running for patrol boats
The Department of Defence has evaluated proposals for Replacement Patrol Boats from three short-listed tenders. Tenix and DMS, partnering with Austal, remain in the competition for the contract, following the setting aside of ADI’s bid as not sufficiently competitive in value for money terms. A cont...
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Austal signs European contract
Austal Limited subsidiary Austal Ships has signed an agreement with European ferry operator Fred Olsen SA, for the world’s largest high-speed multi hull vessel, which will be based on a new hullform set to revolutionise fast sea transport. When delivered in the second half of 2004, the 126.7 meter ...
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Harding dam water treatment plant update
Construction of one of the biggest microfiltration water treatment plants in Australia is well under way at Pilbara’s Harding Dam with preparation of tank bases completed, building foundations in progress and water mains to the pump station being installed. The Water Corporation is building the plan...
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Further contracts awarded to QED Occtech
Perth company, QED Occtech Limited has secured three additional wastewater treatment installations with a combined value of more than $1.2 million. These contracts have been won across three different locations (Melbourne, Malaysia and Perth) and three different industries (textile, municipal landfi...
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Tenders advertised for Thornlie rail works
A multi-million dollar contract to construct a railway station and two bridges as part of the new rail line to Thornlie has been advertised for tender. The works include construction of a rail bridge over the Canning River, the Spencer Road Bridge over the freight line and a station at Spencer Road....
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Leighton Contractors wins $115 million industrial plant facility
Leighton Contractors is building a new production facility for Australian packaging company Amcor as an addition to its existing glass furnace and manufacturing plant in Gawler, South Australia. The existing plant, which was Amcor’s entry into the production of wine bottles, was designed and constru...
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Fuel Economy: The Gull Petroleum Story
In a market that is mostly the domain of large multinational players, Fred Rae and his family have taken fierce competition, strict regulation and a volatile market place in their stride – and they are winning. Based in Western Australia, this company remains a fully family-owned operation and moves...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar: New Events
The following events have been added to the REPS Industry Events Calendar that can be downloaded in the e-mail/ online version of each REPS newsletter.Event - 14th Annual National Power and Gas 2003 Date - 18 –20 August 2003 Venue - Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Organisers - Terrapinn ...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar
To access the REPS Industry Events Calendar click here in the on-line/e-mail version of this newsletter. ...
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