Dampier-Bunbury Pipeline Privatisation
The State Government will sell the 1,530 kilometre Dampier-to-Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP) to Epic Energy Australia for $2.4 billion.
Epic Energy Australia owns about 2,080 kilometres of pipeline in Australia.
This includes its recently announced acquisition of the Pilbara Energy Pipeline ...
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Oakajee Deepwater Port
The State Government will call for expressions of interest for companies to build, own and operate an independent deepwater port at Oakajee, north of Geraldton.
Resources Development Minister Colin Barnett said the economic, technical and environmental feasibility of the deepwater port had been det...
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Mount Margaret Nickel Project
Anaconda Nickel has announced a resource estimate for its Marshall Pool tenements in excess of 100 million tonnes grading 0.8 per cent nickel and 0.4 per cent cobalt.
The requisite cut-off grade has been lowered from 0.8 per cent to 0.5 per cent as testwork commenced on ore from these tenements has...
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Wool-Scouring Plant
The State Government has announced a $40 million world-class, advanced wool scouring plant is planned for construction at East Rockingham.
Commerce and Trade Minister Hendy Cowan said Western Australia''s only wool scour operator, CIL, together with Standard Wool Australia, has agreed to construct ...
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Albany Woodchip Mill Project
Bunnings Forest Products, together with Oji Paper Company and Itochu Corporation, is currently undertaking a feasibility study of the processing and infrastructure options for blue gum plantations in the Albany region.
Costing an estimated $20 million, a three million tonne capacity woodchip mill t...
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Lexia Groundwater Scheme Project
Kinhill Engineers has been awarded the contract to carry out detailed design work for the Water Corporation''s Lexia groundwater scheme project.
Water Corporation Project Manager Peter Harding said Kinhill was expected to complete the work in four months, after which calls to tender for the project...
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Perth International Airport
A Preliminary Draft Master Plan (PDMP) has been prepared by Bechtel Australia for Westralia Airports Corporation.
It indicates the facilities needed to accommodate the growth in airport operations by 2018 as well as its ultimate development.
It also identifies the potential for developing commerc...
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Prospects for Timor Sea Gas Report
The Northern Territory Government has launched the Northern Territory Infrastructure Development: Prospects for Timor Sea Gas in the Australian Market report, which it hopes will encourage gas-driven projects to be established in the Territory.
Minister for Resource Development Eric Poole said Timo...
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Bayu-Undan Upstream Project, NT
Information kits were handed out to attendees at the recent forum on the Bayu-Undan Upstream project.
Following is a brief summary of the main features of the development project.
The Bayu-Undan field, located in the Timor Sea about 500 kilometres from Darwin, is a single gas/condensate resource w...
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Buffalo Oil Project, NT
BHP Petroleum Senior External Affairs Advisor Rob Millhouse said final project approval for the Buffalo oil field has slipped back from March 1998 and is now expected before the end of the calendar year.
It is, however, still intended that the field be in production by late 1999.
Mr Millhouse said...
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Maud Creek Gold Project, NT
Resource Estimate
Following the completion of a drilling campaign during the December 1997 quarter, Kilkenny Gold has announced a 116 per cent increase to the Maud Creek gold deposit''s global mineral resource to 11.828 million tonnes grading 2.38 g/t for 905,060 ounces of gold.
The high-grade res...
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