Strike Energy's plan to build a $2.3 billion urea plant at Geraldton has firmed after the company today revealed it was heavily oversubscribed with offtake offers for its projected 1.4 million tonnes of annual production.
Two major contractors in the oil and gas sector, Technip Oceania and DOF Subsea, are facing legal action over their safety practices on the Wheatstone and Ichthys gas projects.
ConocoPhillips has awarded the first engineering contract for its Barossa offshore project to Technip Oceania for the supply of the subsea production system and associated installation support.
SPECIAL REPORT: Major new engineering contracts show momentum is building for $60 billion of oil and gas projects in WA, but the issue of carbon policy has once again created an obstacle.
Leasing success at The Quadrant on William Street has continued a trend of city fringe and suburban tenants moving to the Perth CBD, while options for firms with large space requirements have become increasingly scarce.
SPECIAL REPORT: With shipments at Shell's Prelude FLNG facility still to get under way, one Perth businessman is hoping to reignite use of the technology for stranded gas fields.
Demand for office space in West Perth has fluctuated widely with commodity prices and the mining sector's fortunes but the suburb is now attracting interest from diverse industry sectors.
ConocoPhillips has set up a design competition between two engineering groups led by Technip Oceania and MODEC for the key facilities at its Barossa gas project in the Timor Sea while WorleyParsons subsidiary Intecsea has been awarded a separate contract for subsea infrastructure.
Offshore oil & gas: Three international players are among those to have won work for Woodside Petroleum's Greater Enfield oil project since it was given the go ahead in the middle of last year.
MSP Engineering has established a new headquarters in West Perth to cater for a bigger workforce as it builds a $400 million lithium processing plant in Kwinana.
Perth-based Programmed Maintenance Services has won a contract to provide staffing and logistical support services at Shell's Prelude floating natural gas project in the Browse Basin.
France's Technip and South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries have been signed up as the lead engineering and construction contractors for the Browse floating LNG project, continuing similar work they have undertaken for the Prelude FLNG project.
Perth-based Pressure Dynamics has announced the appointment of Tim Dallas as business development manager - oil and gas, to round out the team that has been steadily developing since the buy-out of
GDF Suez and Santos have moved away from developing their Bonaparte joint venture project as a floating liquefied natural gas project, saying they will now consider other options, including helping expand Inpex's Icthys LNG project.
Mermaid Marine is a good barometer of activity in Western Australia's oil and gas sector and the company is looking for ways to diversify, including internationally.
Engineering firms exposed to mining are going through a tough patch but prospects are much better for those like Technip and Clough in the oil & gas sector.
The increased likelihood of the Browse gas project being developed as a ‘floater' takes to nine the number of floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plants under construction or being considered for
France-based oil and gas engineering company Technip has won a €210 million ($262 million) works deal at Inpex's Ichthys LNG project off the Western Australian coast.
Shell's development of a world-first floating LNG project off the Kimberley coast is likely to be a game changer for the industry, allowing extensive ‘stranded' gas assets to be developed.
THE major engineering companies in Western Australia cut employment by 15 per cent during the past 12 months, defining the impact of the global financial crisis on the sector.
Global oil and gas heavyweight Technip, through its Perth-based Australian operations, has been named the 'preferred contractor' for the Kupe joint venture oil and gas project in the Taranaki region of New Zealand's North island.
International oil and gas engineering/construction heavyweights Technip and Subsea 7 have formed a Perth-based joint venture to battle for lucrative subsea contracts in the Asia Pacific region.
