One of the overseers of Port Hedland's massive but politically sensitive expansion, port authority chairman Ian Williams, has stepped down, making him the third key person to leave a top job at the
Texas-based engineering and construction group Fluor Corporation has announced its joint venture with Sinclair Knight Merz has won additional contracts with BHP Billiton for the mining giant's 100
Perth's leasing market is the tightest in Australia, and with talk of a major new office tower, property analysts are warning tenants need to move now to take advantage of the city's next major construction cycle.
BHP Billiton says the cost of expanding its Worsley alumina refinery has increased by more than $US600 million due to its complexity of construction and broader inflationary pressures.
THE Barnett government's blueprint to transform Perth into a vibrant, contemporary city could prove to be the saviour of the local architecture sector, but the true potential of these once-in-a-generation projects reaches far beyond their financial impact
A joint venture between Texas-based engineering and construction group Fluor Corporation and Sinclair Knight Merz has extended its relationship with BHP Billiton, winning new contracts, primarily for the expansion of BHP's Jimblebar iron ore mine.
Clough Engineering's old base at 251 St Georges Terrace is up for sale, with Jones Lang La Salle and Burgess Rawson jointly appointed to manage the transaction.
BHP Billiton's Pilbara expansion plans have taken a major step forward, with the release of environmental reports required to obtain government approvals for its proposed Port Hedland outer harbour expansion.
UPDATE: Woodside Petroluem chief executive Don Voelte has echoed BHP Billiton in hosing down speculation that the multinational mining giant was about to embark on a takeover bid for the oil and gas producer.
Leighton Holdings subsidiary Thiess has won a $166 million contract to provide earthworks and infrastructure at BHP Billiton Iron Ore's Jimblebar mine near Newman.
BHP Billiton has announced it will spend $7.4 billion to expand its Western Australian iron ore operations' capacity to over 220 million tonnes per annum, and has invested another $2.6 billion on its Queensland coal operations.
BHP Billiton is budgeting to spend at least $US80 billion to expand its business over the next five years, after its booming WA iron ore business fuelled the biggest interim net profit ever delivered in Australia.
BHP Billiton says two of its natural gas projects in Victoria will cost the company about $1.1 billion more than expected, after mercury contamination and fabrication issues blew out production timelines.
Perth-based engineering firm LogiCamms has won a $10 milion contract to deliver a new process facility at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper, uranium and gold project in South Australia.
Australia's resources-led economic recovery has had a major impact on the pay of WA-based executives, with a big rise in the number of million dollar pay packets as share prices bounced back from GFC lows.
Premier Colin Barnett has introduced amended legislation into state parliament to implement the royalty agreement struck with BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto in June.
BHP Billiton has approved a further $US635 million of capital spending for two expansion projects it is proceeding with at its Pilbara iron ore operations.
Rising market intervention and resources nationalism by governments globally was an understandable trend in times of uncertainty, BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser said today.
The state government expects its royalties agreement with Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton to stand even if a proposed joint venture between the two companies doesn't go ahead.
BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said it had cleared the first US regulatory hurdle in its bid for Canadian company Potash Corp of Saskatchewan.
The royalty agreement reached by the state government with mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton has reduced BHP's underlying profit by US$126 million.
PERTH-BASED surveying and mapping firm McMullen Nolan says it will use the acquisition of mid-tier surveyor DM Gerloff & Associates to build its business outside of metropolitan land development and expand its capabilities of servicing mining and resource
MINING giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have scrapped plans for a single over-arching state agreement with the Western Australian government for their proposed $US116 billion iron ore joint venture in the Pilbara.
MINING giant BHP Billiton has quietly opened a second front in its battle to prevent other miners from accessing its Pilbara iron ore railways, putting it in direct confrontation with the state government.
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has won a contract with BHP Billiton subsidiary Nickel West to provide electrical and instrumentation at the Talc Redesign Project.
Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have reached a royalty agreement with the West Australian government for their iron ore operations in the state.
BHP Billiton has joined the debate surrounding the Labor party's use of an American university student's report in to the disparity between the tax payed by mining giants as Treasurer Wayne Swan took another swipe at the sector.
A who's who of Perth's business elite have appeared in a full-page advertisement against the resources super profit tax as BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser speaks out for the first time against the controversial tax.
International ratings agency Fitch has indicated that while the Commonwealth's proposed super profits tax on the nation's mining and resources outfits "isn't good news for Australian miners", it will not affect the ratings of these companies.
BHP Billiton has held urgent talks with Mines Minister Norman Moore after it launched an inquiry into the death of a 45-year-old man at its Leinster nickel mine.
