ESE review released for proposed Gorgon Gas Development
ChevronTexaco, operator of the Gorgon joint venture, has released an environmental, social and economic review on its proposal to develop the Gorgon gas reserves offshore from Dampier. The Gorgon joint venture is seeking in-principle approval from the WA Government for the restricted use of Barrow I...
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Tui-1: an oil discovery
Australian Worldwide Exploration has announced that the Tui-1 well in the offshore Taranaki Basin, New Zealand is a small oil field discovery. Tui-1 has reached it total depth of 3,903 m and is running wireline logs. At the completion of logging the well will be plugged and abandoned as planned. ...
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Technip-Coflexip wins Block B sub sea development contract
Technip-Coflexip’s Indonesian entity has been awarded an EPIC contract by ConocoPhillips Indonesia for the Block B sub sea development (BBSD) gas project. The contract - worth around US$82 million - involves the sub sea tie back of approximately 14 sub sea well to existing platforms in Block B of ...
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BHP Billiton extends oil and gas find in Gulf of Mexico
BHP Billiton have announced the results of appraisal well Atlantis-6 and approved the full funding for the development. The Atlantis-6 well confirms the presence of hydrocarbons in the previously unexplored northern part of the structure. Additional drilling will be necessary to further appraise ...
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SDS wins major oil and gas order
SDS corporation has received a further order from US company Precision Drilling for the manufacture of components for well monitoring equipment. The value of the order if $US3.7 million and is to be supplied over the next six to eight months. This follows an initial contract of $500,000 awarded by...
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Methanol project receives key environmental approval
Methanol Australia has received environmental approval from the Commonwealth Government allowing it to proceed with the proposed $2 billion Tassie Shoal Methanol Project off the coast of Darwin. Construction of the Tassie Shoal Methanol Project is proposed to commence in 2004 with first production...
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Indcor to raise $35 million to launch ethanol production network
Indcor Limited have announced that it plans to raise up to $35 million in the next few months to fund the acquisition and raise the required equity to develop a Queensland based ethanol business, with the capacity to produce 80 million litres of ethanol per year. Indcor would use the funds to acqu...
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Green light for Geraldton’s southern transport corridor
The tender process for Stage One of Geraldton’s Southern Transport Corridor project is moving ahead with requests for proposal to be released within the next month. Barclay Mowlem Macmahon Contractors joint venture, GTC Consortium, Leighton Downer Geraldton joint venture and Thiess Pty Ltd will be...
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Cockburn central given go ahead
The development of a new regional centre to be known as Cockburn Central is now formally included in the Metropolitan Region Scheme. The State Government has approved amendments to the MRS, to enable development at Thompson Lake to serve one of Perth’s fastest growing areas. The land will be chang...
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Fremantle container rail on track for 50 per cent boost
The State Government’s plan to move more port freight on to rail is already working according to Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan. Ms MacTiernan said container numbers carried between Fremantle’s Inner Harbour and Kewdale has increased substantially, since new management arr...
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United Group signs OSC contract exceeding $150 million
United Group Limited has confirmed that it has signed a contract with the NSW State Rail Authority for the design and construction of passenger railcars to service the Sydney outer suburban rail network. Stage one of the contract is for 41 new railcars with a value in excess of $150 million. The c...
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Titan trebles nickel resources at Widgiemooltha Project
Titan Resources have announced a major upgrade to treble its nickel resources at it wholly-owned Widgiemooltha North property located 80 km south of Kalgoorlie. The company has lifted its previously announced inferred resources, from 1,776,800 tonnes at 1.8 per cent for 31,950 tonnes of nickel met...
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Commencement of 2003 LEJV exploration programs
Metex Resources have announced that the first phase of the 2003 exploration program has commenced on the Laverton Exploration joint venture (LEJV). LEJV partners Metex Resources and Granny Smith Mines have agreed to the first of an extensive range of drilling programs to be undertaken during 2003....
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Helix commences drilling programs
Helix Resources Limited have announced the commencement of drilling at two of its exploration projects. At the Loongana Project on the Nullarbor Plain of WA, the second diamond drill hole into a recently identified layered ultramafic intrusion complex is underway. The first drill hole intersected...
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Joint venture to explore the new Bulong project
Yilgarn Gold Limited (YGL) and Central Kalgoorlie Gold Mine (CKG) have entered into a Heads of Agreement to form a joint venture to explore 20 tenements covering 62 square km at Bulong, 30 km east of Kalgoorlie in the eastern Goldfields of WA. The new Bulong project covers a contiguous strike leng...
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Power generation to expand at Cannington Mine, Qld
Energy Developments Limited (ENE) has been selected as the preferred supplier by BHP Billiton to expand the 24 MW natural gas fired co-generation power plant (owned by ENE) at the Cannington silver-lead zinc mine in north-west Queensland. ENE originally built generating units totalling 20MW at Can...
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New BHP Billiton joint venture
BHP Billiton has agreed to enter into joint venture with Minotaur Resources on the Mingary Exploration Licence, located approximately 80 km west of Broken Hill. The tenement exhibits geochemical, geophysical and geological similarities to those at Broken Hill and is considered prospective for the ...
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Alkane Exploration plans major drilling program in NSW
The Wyoming prospect is located about 12 km north of the company’s gold operations at Peak Hill in the central west of NSW. Wyoming is one of several prospects within the larger Tomingley Gold Project, which extends for 25km north and south of Peak Hill. Recent drilling has concentrated on Wyoming ...
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Commencement of drilling at Kingston gold project, Vic
Range River Gold has received permission from the Minister for Sustainability and Environment to carry out a RC drilling program at its Kingston Gold Project in the Morri Morri State Forest 220 km north-west of Melbourne. The proposed program of 25 holes for 3,300m is designed to test the historic...
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Global energy research alliance formed
The global oil and gas industry will benefit from the establishment of a world-class energy technology research alliance signed recently in WA. The new alliance will provide additional premium quality research and development and services, aimed at developing technology-based solutions for the glo...
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State’s Mid West may open window to universe
WA’s Mid West region has been short-listed as a location for one of the world’s most radio sensitive radio telescopes. Premier and Science Minister Geoff Gallop has met with a group of international scientists who consider the Mid West an ideal region for the new $80 million radio telescope becaus...
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ESI wins water contract in WA
Environmental Solutions International (ESI) has been awarded the contract for the design, construction and commissioning of Dalyellup Water Treatment Plant Stage 2 in WA. The contract, awarded by the Water Corporation, is valued at approximately $2.6 million. The new 6 ML/day plant will provide ...
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REPS Industry Events Calendar:New events
The following events have been added to the REPS Industry Events Calendar List that can be downloaded in the e-mail / on-line version of each REPS newsletter. Event - AustralAsian Oil and Gas Exhibition Date - 19- 21 March 2003Venue - Langley Park, PerthOrganiser - Swan ExhibitionsPh - (08) 9443 3...
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