Gas is flowing at Woodside Petroleum's Greater Western Flank-2 project, an extension of the North West Shelf Venture, with the company saying costs came in 30 per cent under budget.
Global technology company Cisco is changing the way it operates in Asia and is positive about opportunities in Australia, its regional president told a Business News breakfast today.
SPECIAL REPORT: Gold Corporation, Alcoa, Roy Hill and Chevron have all posted higher revenue numbers in Business News' annual analysis of WA's biggest exporters.
Woodside Petroleum has signed a cooperation agreement with Chinese gas company ENN, while it is continuing work on the Scarborough, Browse and Pluto projects.
Woodside Petroleum has reported around a 25 per cent jump in third-quarter revenue, underpinned by rising output at the Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project and higher oil and LNG prices.
Woodside Petroleum has picked Texas-based Bechtel as the most likely contractor to build a new LNG train at its Pluto facility near Karratha, but has hit a hurdle in approvals for an associated fly-in fly-out camp.
A strong run over the past month from listed companies Mineral Resources, Woodside Petroleum and Seven Group Holdings has helped push Business News' index of 30 local stocks to a record high this week.
The government of East Timor has struck a deal to buy a 30 per cent stake in the Woodside Petroleum-operated Sunrise gas project, as it continues pressing for development of an LNG plant on its own territory.
Real estate investment trust Dexus has filled more than half of 240 St Georges Terrace – the Woodside Petroleum building – with Macquarie Bank and engineering group Wood plc committing to about 22,870 square metres of space at the tower.
Chevron's Clio and Acme gas fields could provide backfill supply for an existing LNG plant, most likely North West Shelf Venture's Karratha facility, under a plan to be unveiled by the company's Australian managing director Nigel Hearne this afternoon.
The state government has formally commenced seeking a UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Burrup Peninsula, which is home to some of WA's largest industrial facilities and signalled any new projects will need to meet the highest environmental standards.
International real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed as facility manager of the new Woodside headquarters in Perth, with former Knight Frank director Bret Madden brought on to lead the on-site team.
Woodside Petroleum has further fleshed out its plans for the Scarborough and Browse LNG developments, as it reported a 6.7 per cent lift in half yearly profit.
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Woodside Petroleum has signed up engineering company Wood to prepare development plans for the Scarborough gas field, with the work to be split between offices in Houston and Perth.
The science-fiction comedy Skylab will premiere in Perth this August in a production that marks a first-time collaboration between Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre Company.
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.
The much anticipated Browse LNG project has taken a step forward with partners arriving at an early stage agreement on pricing to pipe gas through an existing Karratha plant, while a proposed second train at Pluto LNG now looks likely to be much larger.
A doubling of production at Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant has helped boost national exports of the fuel 38 per cent to $30.8 billion in the year to June 2018, according to consultancy Energy Quest.
Mining services contractor Ausdrill has continued its board renewal, including the appointment of its first female director, just weeks after company founder Ron Sayers retired.
SPECIAL REPORT: Battery metals businesses such as Pilbara Minerals, Altura Mining, and Western Areas have joined AusCann Holdings, Buru Energy and OM Holdings among the best-performing stocks in the year to June.
The state government has backed plans for a 700-bed workers camp at Karratha, despite opposition from the local community, after Woodside Petroleum launched a website that is meant to boost local employment on future gas projects.
The background of WA Labor's latest candidate for Darling Range has been extensively scrutinised, the premier says, after the party's last MP and a parliamentary hopeful for the state seat proved to be embarrassments.
Perth company GLX Holdings, which has attracted more than 40 of the world's largest LNG buyers and sellers to its online trading platform, has recorded a notable milestone via Malaysian petroleum giant Petronas.
Cystic Fibrosis WA is calling on volunteers and businesses across the state to help the charity raise $75,000 this Friday as part of its annual '65 Roses Day'.
Chevron Australia managing director Nigel Hearne has proposed a major shift in the development of WA's offshore gas reserves, suggesting the industry should collaborate to build a multi-user pipeline to be shared by multiple LNG producers.
Opinion: The current banking royal commission and global shift to downsizing are raising questions as to whether any institution or business is too big to fail, or at least be broken up.
Aboriginal communities in Western Australia's Kimberley region have had their native title rights recognised over 12,050 square kilometre of land on the Dampier Peninsula, including James Price Point.
Long-running plans by Vikas Rambal's Perdaman Industries to build a multi-billion dollar urea manufacturing plant in Western Australia have received a fillip, with his group signing a gas supply agreement with Woodside Petroleum.
Consulting group Energy Quest has cast doubt over the long-held expectation that Australia will overtake Qatar as the world's largest LNG producer, in part because of the anticipated decline in production at Woodside Petroleum's North West Shelf project.
Woodside Petroleum chairman Michael Chaney has said there's a risk that major energy players may be dissuaded from investing into Western Australia if company tax reform is stalled, as the business closes in on a tolling deal for gas from the Browse field.
