Santos builds its deep water acreage portfolio
Santos has expanded its deepwater acreage in the offshore Otway Basin having been awarded its sixth operated exploration permit in the area. Santos, in joint venture with independent US oil company Unocal, has been awarded exploration permit T/35P in the Tasmanian portion of the offshore Otway Basin...
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New Queensland Gas project underway
Arrow Energy has signed agreements with CS Energy for up to $12.03 million funding for commercial development of its first coal seam gas project at Kogan North in Queensland’s Surat Basin, 300 km north-west of Brisbane. The project, through wholly owned subsidiary Australian CBM (ACBM) Pty Ltd, shou...
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New offshore LNG facility proposed in US
Australia-based diversified natural resources company, BHP Billiton, has announced that following preliminary discussions it intends to file applications with the United States Coast Guard/Maritime Administration (MARAD) and the California State Lands Commission to construct and operate a liquefied ...
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Ministerial conditions set for poultry litter-fired power station
Environment Minister Judy Edwards has released the Ministerial conditions for the Muchea poultry litter-fired power station.The conditions ensure the fuel mix should be not less than 70 per cent poultry litter, with the remainder as clean biomass. The whole project was recommended for approval by th...
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Esperance Power Project update
Nine Mile Beach wind farm The new turbines at Nine Mile Beach wind farm are now operating. During August, Western Power will be concentrating on integrating the turbine control system so the Esperance power system will function as one unit. Transformer upgradesThe transformer upgrade work has progre...
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Pacific Hydro gains approval for SA wind farm
Pacific Hyrdro has announced plans for a wind farm at Clements Gap in SA of up to 67.5 megawatt (MW) capacity.Port Pirie Regional Council has unanimously supported the planning application. Construction is planned to start in mid 2004 on the $90 million project, situated 15 km south-west of Crystal ...
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ABN-AMRO to coordinate Port Pirie power station EOIs
Magnesium International Limited (MIL) has appointed ABN-AMRO to assist in the collection and review of expressions of interest (EOI) from parties for the development of a power station at Port Pirie in SA. MIL was granted a development approval for its SAMAG magnesium smelter in 2001.Under the terms...
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$2.4 million AusIndustry grant for WA Kaolin project
Minerals Corporation (MSC) has received an AusIndustry Research and Development grant for their WA Kaolin project. Phase one development has been approved for $659,000 with application for phase two funding predicted on the success of the phase one work program and prevailing policy guidelines. Now ...
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Significant new contracts for HWE in 2004
In the 2003 financial year, Simon Engineering - a wholly owned subsidiary of Henry Walker Eltin - increased its work on hand by more than 200 per cent (from $79 million to $250 million) and is set to further increase this figure with some significant new contracts in the 2004 financial year.Work on ...
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BHP Billiton to resume mining at Tintaya
BHP Billiton has announced that it will re-start sulphide mining operations at its Tintaya copper mine in southern Peru during August. This follows the approval of a new mine plan and a review of projected copper market conditions.Shipments of copper concentrates from Tintaya are expected to recomme...
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Government welcomes expansion of Goldfields Gas pipeline
State Development Minister Clive Brown welcomed an $11 million expansion of the 1,380 km Goldfields Gas Transmission pipeline.The pipeline - the state’s second largest - transports gas from the North West Shelf to Kalgoorlie and Kambalda, supplying gas to mineral processing projects throughout the P...
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Geraldton to North Eastern Goldfields Infrastructure Corridor
The Environmental Protection Authority has released its Section 16 advice to the Minister for the Environment on the WA Government’s concept for the Geraldton to North Eastern Goldfields Infrastructure Corridor between Compressor Station 7 on the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline and the Goldf...
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Government’s Burrup infrastructure package kicks off
Construction has begun on infrastructure to support more than $6 billion in gas processing projects on the Burrup Peninsula.The $137 million infrastructure package is being used to build water supply facilities, upgrade port facilities, and create service corridors and new roads.The $630 million Bur...
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ESE process to identify industrial development location
State Development Minister Clive Brown embarked on a two-day tour of the North West to brief local communities on the Government’s progress in identifying the best location for future downstream processing projects in the state’s North.The tour saw the Minister address community forums in both Karra...
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Water Corporation withdraws EPA submission
The Water Corporation has withdrawn its application to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to build the Mundaring water treatment plant and associated drying beds at Sawyers Valley hill. The Water Corporation’s application to the EPA to build up to three 50-megalitre water tanks remains act...
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Boral to invest in new brick kiln in WA
Boral Limited is proceeding with plans to build a new kiln at its WA-based Midland Brick business. Boral plans to invest $53 million in the construction of a new state-of-the-art brick kiln and associated plant to produce around 50 million bricks per annum. The new Kiln #11 will allow the closure of...
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$90 million Brisbane Port Seawall project begins
Leighton Contractors together with alliance partners, the Port of Brisbane Corporation, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Coffey Geosciences, and coastal engineering specialists WBM Oceanics have begun work on a $90 million project to construct 4.5 km of seawall at the Port of Brisbane.The Future Port Expansion...
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BHP Steel to invest in flat steel treatment facility
BHP Steel will invest $160 million to develop a new metallic coating and painting facility in the Bas Ria-Vung Tau province, following the granting of an investment licence by the Vietnamese Government. The facility will have an annual production capacity of approximately 125,000 tonnes of metallic ...
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Raytheon Australia wins major submarine contract
Raytheon Australia has signed a $54 million contract with the Commonwealth to design, develop and produce hardware and software to support the Collins Class submarines. The contract calls for support to the installation and systems integration of the new CCS Mk2 combat systems onboard the submarines...
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Australia’s bid to be JSF regional hub
BAE Systems Australia will spearhead a joint industry-government bid to establish Australia as the regional service hub for the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.BAE Systems Australia will lead the industry element of a task force developing and promoting Australia’s capability to support not only Austr...
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Australia-US Free Trade Agreement
CCI and the Curtin School of Business will be holding a conference on 29 August 2003 on the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA).This conference is designed to provide:a clearer understanding of recent developments in the ongoing FTA negotiationsan opportunity to ask questions of th...
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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/on-line version of each REPS newsletter.Event - Queensland Transport Infrastructure Conference Date - 29-30 October 2003Venue - Hilton, BrisbaneOrganisers - Informa Australia Tel - (02) 908...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar
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