Raytheon asks for registrations of interest (19 Oct 04)
Raytheon Australia are asking for registrations of interest from WA businesses as suppliers or partners for some of the new Defence projects that Raytheon are bidding for, including the $2 billion bid for the contract with the Australian Navy.
Raytheon Australia is also pursuing significant progra...
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New $300 million ammonium nitrate complex for WA (19 Oct 04)
Deepak Fertilisers are examining the feasibility of developing a new $300 million ammonium nitrate complex on the Burrup Industrial Estate in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
The complex will produce 300,000 tonnes per annum (t/a) of ammonium nitrate, 270,000 t/a of nitric acid and 150,000 t/a of am...
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EoI for additional power supply generation capacity (19 Oct 04)
As part of the Government’s electricity reform program, the Office of Energy is calling for Expressions of Interest to provide additional power generation capacity for the South West electricity grid, over and above the baseload plant planned for 2008.
To enable the EoI process to start, Energy Min...
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WA’s biggest biomass co-firing operation for Collie (19 Oct 04)
WA’s biggest biomass co-firing operation will be located in Collie, with pine pallet manufacturer Pinetec Ltd confirming that it will build a new sawmilling and manufacturing centre adjacent to Western Power’s Muja Power Station.
The centre will create up to 50 jobs and result in 78,000 tonnes of p...
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Portman approves Koolyanobbing expansion (19 Oct 04)
Portman Limited has announced the board approval for a $55 million expansion of its 100 per cent owned Koolyanobbing operations in WA to increase production from 5 million tonnes to 8 million tonnes per annum.
The new long-term production rate is expected to be achieved by the last quarter of 2005,...
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Fortescue announces second sales contract (19 Oct 04)
Fortescue Metals Group Limited has announced its second binding contract within a week to supply China with iron ore from the company’s emerging Pilbara Iron Ore and Infrastructure Project in WA. Provisions in the contract provide a capital injection of $35 million into Fortescue Metals, more than h...
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Go-ahead announced for Victorian gas project (19 Oct 04)
Santos Ltd (Santos), Australia Worldwide Exploration Limited (AWE) and Mitsui & Co, Ltd (Mitsui) have announced the formal go-ahead for the development of a new gas field – the Casino project in the offshore Otway Basin, Victoria.
The $200 million development approval follows the granting of th...
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Oilex and Kimberly agreement (19 Oct 04)
Oilex NL and Kimberly Oil NL have entered into a Farm-in Agreement covering EP 390 in the Canning Basin, WA. The agreement entitles Oilex to earn 80 per cent interest in the permit by undertaking reprocessing and reinterpretation of seismic data covering approximately 35 km, and the drilling of an e...
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Bounty adds second well (19 Oct 04)
Bounty Oil & Gas NL has advised that the WA-327-P joint venture has agreed to include a well at the Flying Foam prospect as part of a multi-well campaign in adjoining Offshore Perth Basin permits WA-325-P and WA-327-P.
Drilling is scheduled to commence in January 2005, although the joint ventu...
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Gindalbie Gold plans further exploration and development (19 Oct 04)
Gindalbie Gold NL has announced a comprehensive update on exploration and development activities at its WA iron ore and gold projects, with drilling programs set to commence at three projects over the next two months, including an economic scoping study on the Mt Karara magnetite deposit.
With a s...
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LionOre offer for MPI (19 Oct 04)
LionOre Mining International has announced a $285 million takeover offer for MPI Mines Limited, and plans to accelerate feasibility studies into the development of the Honeymoon Well Nickel Project and assess the project’s commercialisation using hydrometallurical processing technology.
The offer,...
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Avoca signs JV deal with WMC (19 Oct 04)
Avoca Resources Limited has announced it has signed a Heads of Agreement for a farm-in and joint venture agreement with WMC Resources Ltd to explore Avoca’s West Bangemall Ni-Cu-PGE project, located approximately 60 km south of Paraburdoo, WA.
Avoca holds approximately 1,000km2 of exploration licen...
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New discovery at RAV 8 (19 Oct 04)
Tectonic Resources NL has announced the discovery of a new shoot of nickel ore at its 100 per cent owned and operated RAV 8 Nickel Mine.
As a result of Tectonic’s ongoing exploration both to the east and west of current mine workings a new shoot has been intersected to the east.
The new discovery ...
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Churchman prospective for nickel (19 Oct 04)
Prosperity Resources has announced the substantiation of historic nickel results previously observed by past nickel explorers in the 1970s at the Churchman Project, WA. Initially pegged for gold following interpretation of new aeromagnetic data in the region, the company reviewed the historic explor...
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Queensland’s success story - the Peter Beattie formula (19 Oct 04)
As Queensland Labor Premier for the past six years, Peter Beattie has overseen a period of exceptional economic growth and development in his state. Over the past decade the Queensland economy has grown faster than any other Australian state or territory.
Just what is the secret of this success? Wh...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar: New Events (19 Oct 04)
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: Sydney Oil ForumDate: 2 December 2004Venue: Four Points by Sheraton Sydney, NSW...
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