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BHP and Mineral Resources have become the latest big employers to make COVID vaccinations a condition of entry at all of their Australian workplaces, joining mining giant Rio Tinto.

A Supreme Court ruling has shed new light on contractual disputes on the mammoth Gorgon gas project as Chevron and contractor CKJV fight over $400 million in disputed payments.

Hall & Prior has given 100 per cent of its residential aged care workforce the first dose of the COVID-19 jab and reported 10 staff have resigned due to the vaccination requirement.

Worley will undertake engineering and construction management work at Chevron's Jansz-Io compression project, after announcing a contract win today.

Carbon capture and storage is one of several technologies we'll need to adopt to meet our emissions targets.

Ventia has won a roughly $1 billion, ten year, maintenance contract at Chevron's Gorgon LNG facility.

Chevron Australia has committed $3.45 million to Conservation Volunteers Australia over three years to support lower carbon projects.

Chevron will proceed with the $US4 billion Jansz-Io subsea compression project to supply the Gorgon facility, while Woodside recently secured JDAP approval for Pluto Train 2.

It would not be easy to replace the economic benefits China has brought WA, but reliance brings risk.

A new carbon target for Woodside's Pluto LNG has been approved; Chevron has invested in solar; and six carbon capture projects have been granted $50 million.

Woodside will take a loss of between $50 million and $80 million as it exits its 50 per cent share of the Kitimat project in Canada, after partner Chevron also left the development.

The biggest risk facing Australian LNG exporters is not trade threats from China, rather its the possibility of not having enough gas, a new report has found.

Property developers are undeterred by the trend towards working from home, with new plans for a 14-storey office the latest in a series of proposed CBD projects.

Failing to navigate the transition to a lower-emissions economy could have a disruptive impact on WA's standard of living.

WA-based construction engineering company AusGroup has secured a 10-year maintenance contract with Chevron Australia.

A decision on Chevron's Jansz-Io compression project is expected this year, while the company's Australian emissions fell 22 per cent thanks to carbon capture.

Integrated solutions specialist EnerMech will provide pipeline services to Chevron's oil and gas facilities in Western Australia under a new five-year contract.

Developing a technology road map and finding options for local recycling will be two initial projects of a new decommissioning centre for the oil and gas industry.

Decisions on two big gas projects are due, $12 billion of chemical projects are under consideration, and a decommissioning timebomb awaits.

Perth may have the highest office building vacancy rate nationally, but that's done little to dampen the confidence of investors, developers and real estate agents.

Singaporean business Pavilion has committed to buy 3 million tonnes of LNG from Chevron in a deal with strict carbon reporting requirements.

Some of Australia's largest corporations are digging deep to raise funds for those affected by the devastating fire in Perth's north-east.

As firefighters attempt to contain an out-of-control blaze in Perth's east, the state's peak resources body has established an initiative to raise much-needed funds.

The chief executives of ExxonMobil Corp and Chevron Corp reportedly held preliminary talks in early 2020 to explore combining the two largest US oil producers.

Chevron will finish the year with both its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects partly shut down due to safety concerns just as the LNG price soars to six times higher than its mid-year lows.

Australia should consider the importance of US investment alongside trade with China when weighing its economic relationships, according to Washington's top diplomat in Canberra.

Mark Hatfield has been appointed to lead Chevron Australia, replacing Al Williams who has been made global vice president of corporate affairs.

Multinational investment bank HSBC will shift its Perth headquarters from 190 St Georges Terrace to the 43-storey QV1 tower.

Chevron has restarted production at Gorgon's LNG Train 2, after welding issues in the heat exchangers were discovered in July.

Brookfield Properties has received development approval for its plans to build two mixed-use towers at Elizabeth Quay.

Expansion plans are in the works for some of WA's biggest exporters, but commodity prices and projects face uncertainty.

CIMIC Group has lost a four-year dispute against Chevron over work completed at its Gorgon natural gas project off the WA coast.

Woodside Petroleum is reportedly axing 300 direct staff following a similar decision last month by fellow oil and gas major Chevron.

Chevron intends to axe hundreds of its Western Australian workforce, as a low oil price washes over the industry.

Chevron has disclosed it will need extra time to complete repairs that have shut down one of the processing trains at its Gorgon gas project.

The shutdown of Shell's Prelude FLNG since February and planned phased shutdowns at Chevron's Gorgon could hit LNG exports by about $2 billion this year.

Chevron is planning a phased shutdown of the production trains at its Gorgon LNG plant after striking an agreement with state government safety regulators.

Chevron may need to temporarily halt production at its Gorgon gas plant after being ordered by government regulators to undertake further inspections and repairs.

Exploring the deepest reaches of the universe and mapping the human epigenome are among the research passions of the 2020 Premier's Science Awards finalists.

As the big offshore gas projects planned for WA's north face more delays and uncertainty, the prospects for developing onshore gas fields in the Perth Basin get better.