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Executive Risk Solutions has finalised a contract worth double its annual turnover, signing a $30 million, two-year deal to provide emergency response and security at the Roy Hill iron ore project.

Institutional investor New Forests has increased its forestry holdings stake in Western Australia and nationally by buying a 21,000 hectare estate.

Gina Rinehart has virtually ensured her family's long-held dream of operating its own iron ore mine, securing final funding for her massive Roy Hill project.

Forge Group employees could be waiting up to six months to access $50 million owed to them and business creditors could be facing an even longer wait, according to Ferrier Hodgson.

The issue of electricity prices not surprisingly has emerged as a hot topic of discussion following the government’s recent announcement of a statewide review of the electricity market.

Surveyor Fugro Spatial Solutions has been awarded a contract to carry out dimensional control surveys at Inpex’s Ichthys LNG project near Darwin.

A partnership between oil and gas heavyweights Woodside Petroleum and Chevron, and the University of Western Australia is changing the design of offshore pipelines and cutting construction costs for the expensive infrastructure.

Uranium explorer Peninsula Energy has raised $5 million in a share placement to asset manager JP Morgan.

Mining and engineering contractors were the biggest losers today when the S&P Dow Jones rebalanced all of its Australian indices, with RCR Tomlinson one of the few to buck the trend.