WA Resource Development Services Directory 2004
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Bayu-Undan project achieves key milestones
Two significant milestones have been achieved at the Bayu-Undan project with the flowing of first gas from the Bayu-Undan gas and liquids field. The project has successfully opened two wells for production as part of the commissioning and start-up procedures for the Wellhead Platform Number 1. In ad...
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Mermaid Marine wins Santos contract
Mermaid Marine has been awarded a contract to provide logistics and supply base support to the upcoming Santos Mutineer / Exeter development, scheduled to commence in March 2004. This is a $480 million project in the Carnarvon Basin, expected to produce first oil by approximately mid 2005 with an es...
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Heads of agreement for Maleo gas field
Santos Limited has announced a Heads of Agreement (HoA) for the sale of the entire gas reserves of the Maleo field in East Java, Indonesia. The Maleo field is estimated to contain in between 213 and 315 billion cubic feet of recoverable gas. Santos, as operator for the Madura Offshore Production Sha...
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Oil discovery at Puma Well, Gulf of Mexico
BHP Billiton has completed drilling the Puma-1 exploration in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
The well encountered approximately 500 feet of net oil pay in Miocene sandstones, and two subsequent sidetrack bores also encountered oil in reservoir intervals of a similar age.
Drilling on Puma-1 began o...
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Corridor clears way for Burrup projects
A key item of infrastructure on the Burrup Peninsula has been completed, clearing the way for the construction of value-adding industries.The $14.5 million east-west service corridor, part of the State Government’s $186.3 million infrastructure package for the peninsula, has been completed on time a...
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BGC Contracting wins further work at Burrup Fertiliser
BGC Contracting has been awarded two further contracts for Burrup Fertiliser on their ammonia plant at Karratha.The two new contracts are for the Site Wide Concrete Works, involving approximately 20,000cm3 of concrete, and the Underground Pipework Package.These contracts add to the earlier completio...
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Iraq oil infrastructure contract awarded to Worley joint venture
Worley is part of a joint venture that has been awarded a contract for the restoration of Iraq oil infrastructure by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The value of the contract is for a minimum of US$500,000 to a maximum of US$800 million and is for support of the northern region. The actual a...
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Near mine exploration pays off
Conquest Mining has chosen the near mine path in its search for Australia’s next diamond mine. The company has now completed the first stage of the bulk gravel sampling program at Lower Smoke Creek, a site 26 km downstream from the Argyle diamond mine in the East Kimberley Region of WA. A terrace on...
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BMA to build new coal handling and processing plant
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance have announced plans to build a new coal handling and processing facility at the Blackwater coal mine in Central Queensland.The $234 million plant will have the capacity to process more than 14 million tonnes of high quality coking and thermal coal a year.Located adj...
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Henry Walker Eltin wins $226 million of new mining work
Contract extensions and new work with BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA), Portman, MPI Mines and Dominion Gold Operations have increased Henry Walker Eltin’s work on hand by $226 million to a total of over $1.7 billion as at January 2004, with a further $500 million of contracts under final nego...
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Accelerated exploration at Siana
Exploration at the Siana gold project in the Philippines has been accelerated with four drill rigs on site. The first hole of a 15-hole program below the open pit, designed to upgrade and extend the known resource has recorded a high grade intersection on 19 m at 7.9 glt Au from 275 m downhole. A ho...
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Maximising local benefits from major resources projects
The State Government will implement a protocol designed to maximise local benefits from future state agreements and major resources projects.The protocol is in the final stages of development and has been jointly developed by State Development Minister Clive Brown, the Department of Industry and Res...
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Reservoir to boost water storage capacity
Government Enterprises Minister Nick Griffiths has announced the construction of a new water reservoir at Kalgoorlie-Boulder, which will almost double the city’s water storage capacity to 880,000 kilolitres.The $40 million reservoir complex and associated facilities will be built on a 40 ha site in ...
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Earthworks start on Coral Bay contract
Earthworks have commenced on the site of Coral Bay’s new wastewater treatment plant.The Water Corporation has awarded a $4.3 million contract to construction company D M Civil to build a wastewater treatment plant, wastewater pumping station and reticulated sewerage system at Coral Bay.The work was ...
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Minister appoints consultant to construct Ord business case
The WA Government, after consultation with the NT Government, has commissioned Marsden Jacob Associates to prepare business cases for staged and full development scenarios for the Ord River Irrigation Area Stage 2 M2 area.Marsden Jacob Associates are economic and financial consultants specialising i...
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Bremer Bay power initiative
Western Power is investigating an innovative wind-diesel power station at Bremer Bay to improve the power supply to the small South Coast community.Acting general manager, regional, Ziggy Wilk said the availability of suitable locations in the town, the availability of Federal grants and the approva...
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State Government removes heavy industry component from Gingin draft plan
Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan has released the draft Gingin Coast Structure Plan that no longer includes an industrial area and port at Breton Bay.”The structure plan for the coastal portion of the Shire of Gingin has a 25-year planning horizon and will provide a sound regi...
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BlueScope Steel announces new Thailand investment
The Board of BlueScope Steel has approved the installation of a second metallic coating line at the Map Ta Phut plant, 150 km south of Bangkok. The total capital cost of the project is approximately $80 million. The investment will be undertaken by BlueScope Steel (Thailand), and will add capacity o...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar: New Events
The following events has been added to the REPS Industry Events Calendar that can be downloaded in the e-mail / on-line version of each REPS newsletter.Event - 7th Annual South Australia Power 2004Date - 16-18 February 2004- Adelaide24-26 February 2004- Melbourne Venue - Stamford Plaza- Adelaide Gra...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar
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