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Nine WA-linked resources businesses are ranked among the country's top 20 corporate taxpayers, despite a widespread perception the industry does not pay its way.

Drilling on phase two of the Julimar-Brunello gas development will begin this quarter as part of a US$4 billion ($5.8 billion) capital expenditure drive by Woodside Petroleum in 2020.

Businesses are facing a challenge locking in gas contracts for major projects in Western Australia, including Coogee's planned $1 billion Burrup Peninsula methanol plant, which the company is now pursuing without partner Wesfarmers.

A strong focus on developing and sustaining corporate partnerships is one factor behind Western Australia's oldest theatre company, Barking Gecko Theatre, notching up its 30th birthday.

What Christmas gave to Australian retailers, the bushfires are taking away, but there could be worse to come for shopkeepers and shopping centre owners when the latest international trends wash up here.

Woodside Petroleum is set to begin drilling for oil off the coast of Senegal, executing key contracts to begin the first phase of its $US4.2 billion ($6 billion) Sangomar project.

OPINION: WA again stands to be the beneficiary of trouble elsewhere, with local producers of lithium, gold, iron ore and hydrocarbons the likely winners.

The West African nation of Senegal has authorised its first oil development, the $US4.2 billion Sangomar offshore oil project, operator Woodside Petroleum has announced.

A $180 million project to house up to 2,500 fly-in, fly-out workers for the expansion of Woodside Petroleum's Pluto LNG plant was approved by the local joint development assessment panel in December.

An emerging battle for the future of WA's energy industry and efforts to revive Perth's street precincts have been among the defining themes of 2019.

Woodside Petroleum and power contractor EDL will team up for a 27-megawatt gas and renewable microgrid to be built at Strandline Resource's Coburn mineral sands project, which will include trucked LNG.

Our board moves wrap includes Mark Syropoulo, Cathy Moises, Kate Stoney, Bradley Marwood, Peter Bewick, Henko Vos, Abby Siew, Grant Mooney, Les Davis, Doron Nevo, Michael Soucik, Dan Smith, Swee Chen Goh, Osagie Imasogie, Lisa Gray, Oludare Odumosu, Harry Karelis, Mara Gordon, and Stewart Washer.

Our comprehensive annual survey of chief executive remuneration shows wide variation across companies.

The state government today announced it will provide $30 million in funding over five years to the The Clontarf Foundation, allowing the sports academy to operate in 30 Western Australian schools as of 2020.

A move to use lasers to perfectly load rail cars is worth about $300 million to BHP and is an example of how the area around the town of Newman is world class in applying technology to resources.

OPINION: A better year is in prospect for WA's resources-led economy but much has to go right on the international and local fronts.

Woodside Petroleum has laid out plans to triple its gas and oil reserve base which will come from more than $US36 billion worth of projects in Australia, Senegal and Myanmar over the next seven years.

A price has been set for processing Scarborough field gas at the Pluto LNG facility, Woodside Petroleum and BHP announced today, the second boost for the $15 billion project in recent weeks.

WA is uniquely equipped to become a global leader in the space industry, according to the state's scientist of the year.

Quantum computing is the next technology frontier for gas producer Woodside Petroleum, with the Perth-based business today becoming the first in Australia to join IBM's Q Network.

The Scarborough gasfields appear set to be at the heart of a development versus environment showdown that will have major political implications.

Australian Gas Infrastructure Group has been awarded a contract by Woodside Petroleum to build a gas pipeline connecting the Pluto LNG plant with the North West Shelf venture's nearby Karratha gas plant.

Woodside Petroleum said today its Scarborough gas project had a strengthened case for development after the company raised its reserves estimate by 52 per cent.

A focus on safety and efficiency has helped Tensa Equipment spin-off Roborigger win an unprecedented three of four sponsored platinum awards at this year's Innovator of the Year ceremony, including the Business News ‘Great for the State' award.

The West Australian Ballet has announced it will tour China with a performance of ‘Giselle' in October of next year, as part of the company's recently announced 2020 season.

A $1 billion fund to subsidise grid reliability and an expert panel to review Australia's emissions abatement program are signs the federal government might be rethinking its approach to climate policy.

Western Australia's two biggest charity events, Telethon and the MACA Cancer 200 Ride for Research, raised a collective $47.4 million for medical research over the weekend.

Premier Mark McGowan has firmly urged BHP and Chevron to reach agreements with Woodside Petroleum so the giant Browse and Scarborough gas projects can proceed.

Woodside Petroleum is priming itself to begin design work on its $30 billion Browse LNG project by the end of the year, and has reiterated its intention for a final decision on construction during the first half of 2021.

Click through to read Business News's annual list of WA's 20 biggest exporters, with data on companies such as Chevron, Roy Hill, Gold Corporation and Glencore.

Telstra and Dutch multinational Fugro have opened a remote operations centre in Gnangara, which the partners hope could be used to service industries beyond oil and gas.

The emissions reduction policy proposed by the Environmental Protection Authority in March was misaligned with the Paris Agreement, would lead to lower abatements for a given cost, and potentially even send emissions overseas, according to Woodside Petroleum.

WA's resources industry has business and community benefits that reach far beyond the export dollars they earn.

Woodside Petroleum has signed a preliminary agreement to supply liquefied natural gas to German utility Uniper for 13 years starting in 2021, contingent on Woodside developing its Scarborough gas project.

OPINION: Every cloud has a silver lining, even the attacks on the Saudi Arabian oil industry, because they could provide the incentive for customers to seek more liquefied natural gas from Western Australia.

Joondalup-based Sapien Cyber, which was recently backed by Woodside Petroleum, has announced four high-profile board appointments as the company looks to move into the US market.

Woodside Petroleum will invest in Subiaco-based Blue Ocean Monitoring to create autonomous mini-submarines in a bid to make gathering seismic data from the ocean floor cheaper and safer.

Alaska is a long way from Western Australia, but what's just happened in the oil industry there could have a significant effect on plans to expand this state's liquefied natural gas industry.

Woodside Petroleum expects to reduce its stakes in Australia's Scarborough gas field and Canada's Kitimat liquefied natural gas project, which would help it reduce its capital expenditure, its chief executive told Reuters.

A unique mobile service for homeless people will benefit from a recent injection of funding.