Fluor AMEC awarded offshore oil facility contract
Fluor Corporation, as part of its alliance relationship with AMEC plc, has received notice of award for front end engineering and design work and related services for development of a floating oil production facility off the WA coast. Award value for Fluor’s portion of the current work is not disclo...
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Extensive production potential at Jansz gas field
ChevronTexaco has confirmed that a production test in the Jansz gas field, located approximately 200 km off the north-west cost of WA, has demonstrated the field’s extensive production potential. The Jansz well, tested on 2 July in the WA-18-R permit area, flowed at a rate of more than 72 million cu...
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BHP Billiton announces oil discovery in Exmouth sub-basin
BHP Billiton has made an oil discovery with its exploration well Ravensworth-1 within WA-155-P (1) in the Exmouth sub-basin off WA. The well has reached a measured depth of 1,432m. Preliminary interpretation indicates that Ravensworth 1 encountered a gross oil column of 37 m and a gross gas column o...
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Santos builds WA business
Santos Limited has acquired interests in three exploration licence areas in the offshore waters of WA and will invest approximately $4 million in new exploration.Santos has acquired a 100 per cent interest in offshore exploration permit WA-274-P in the Browse Basin, WA from a subsidiary of Genting B...
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Victoria Petroleum completes Cooper Basin farm-out
Victoria Petroleum has entered into farm-in agreements with private companies. These companies will earn a 15 per cent interest in PEL 104 by contributing to 30 per cent of the cost of an accelerated exploration program, seismic reprocessing, 150 km of new seismic and the drilling of two wells, whic...
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Cooper Basin producers win expanded Pasminco contract
Santos Limited and the other South West Queensland Gas Producers (producers) have signed a new gas contract with Pasminco Century Mine Limited for Cooper Basin gas. Gas sold by the producers will be delivered to the Mount Isa Power Station, which will generate power for the Century Mine at Lawn Hill...
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Santos signs Indonesian gas sales agreement
Santos Limited (through its wholly owned subsidiary Santos (Sampang) Pty Ltd) and its joint venturers are set to secure a slice of the developing East Java gas market following the signing of a new long-term agreement to sell more than 90 billion cubic feet (BCF) of gas.Santos and its joint venturer...
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Eastern Star in power purchase agreement with Country Energy
Eastern Star and its wholly owned subsidiary Narrabri Power Limited (NPL) have received an offer from Country Energy on the commercial terms of a 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) confirming the viability of the Coonarah gas field in NSW. Under the terms of the agreement, Country Energy will bu...
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Portman’s Koolyanobbing expansion given the go-ahead
Indigenous Affairs Minister John Kobelke has approved a section 18 application, under the Aboriginal Heritage Act, for expansion of the Koolyanobbing Iron Ore project in the northern Goldfields. The application from Portman Iron Ore Limited was to expand its open pit mining operations to include Win...
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Consolidated and Fortescue in iron ore joint venture
Consolidated Minerals (CSM) has announced a joint venture with Fortescue Metal Group to evaluate and develop CSM’s Mindy Mindy iron ore project in WA. Initial work has indicated that Mindy Mindy has the potential to host a significant iron ore resource. Fortescue has developed a comprehensive region...
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BMA announces new underground coal mine
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) will develop a new punch longwall underground coal mine in Central Queensland.The $102 million project, to be known as Broadmeadow Mine, will have the capacity to produce up to 3.6 million tonnes of high quality coking coal a year.Located on BMA’s Goonyella ope...
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Mt Garnet expansion in North Queensland
As a result of the recent success at extending the Balcooma upper zone mineralisation, Kagara will now spend an additional $2.6 million to bring forward a decision to expand the Mt Garnet zinc treatment facility.This will involve an infill drilling program of the Balcooma upper zone, which has alrea...
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Government outlines position on Keating recommendations
State Development Minister Clive Brown has outlined the Government’s position on the recommendations of the Keating Review into the Project Development Approvals System.Mr Brown said the Government supported in principle over 40 of the 56 recommendations, with a further 10 recommendations requiring ...
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Government response to Bowler recommendations
The WA State Government is moving to boost the level of mining exploration in WA in a bid to maintain the State’s strong economic growth.State Development Minister Clive Brown said the Government was determined to arrest the decline in exploration levels, which, for example, were now insufficient to...
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Austal selected for next stage of US Navy combat ship project
A team that includes two Austal Limited subsidiaries - Austal Ships and Austal USA -has been awarded one of three contracts for the preliminary design of the United States Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships. Austal - the designer and builder of the vessels - is a major contributor to the team, which is le...
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Second Australian company to win JSF work
A second Australian company has won work on the 10-year systems development and demonstration phase of the US Joint Strike Fighter program. Hawker de Havilland has won a contract to provide engineers to work with Lockheed Martin engineers in Palmdale, California, on designing and developing critical...
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WA companies secure multi-million dollar work on new railcars
Three WA companies have secured a total of $15 million worth of manufacturing work on the new rail cars that will service the expansion of the urban rail network - the New MetroRail project.Part of the $437 million rail car procurement and maintenance contract that was awarded to EDI Rail-Bombardier...
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Thiess wins Synchrotron building tender
Construction company Thiess has been selected to construct the building to house the Australian Synchrotron. Construction works at the Monash site will commence almost immediately with the project on track to start working in 2007. The $39.4 million building will be purpose built to accommodate the ...
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Road construction industry to meet in Gulf
A major road construction industry exhibition and conference will be held in Abu Dhabi in early 2004.‘Roadex 2004’ will be held at the Abu Dhabi International Exhibition Centre from 14-17 March 2004 and will run concurrently with the second Gulf Road Conference.Over the past few decades, the Gulf re...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar
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