The international stage has helped this year's local business and political leaders stand out from the pack – including our Person of the Year, Richard Goyder.
Woodside Petroleum has substantially reshaped its project portfolio after buying a minority interest in Chevron's half-built Wheatstone LNG plant, postponing its planned Browse LNG project and acquiring a stake in a Canadian LNG development.
The tougher business climate has prompted some WA companies to cut executive salaries, but most have held the line and some have even awarded pay rises.
The Woodside Petroleum-led North West Shelf venture has agreed to proceed with its $1.2 billion Persephone gas project off the Western Australian coast.
Woodside Petroleum has finalised an agreement with Noble Energy and Glencore International to farm in to the Tilapia Production Sharing Contract off the coast of Cameroon.
Woodside Petroleum has turned the threat of cheap liquefied natural gas exports from the US into an opportunity for the producer to resell some of that LNG at a higher price.
Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman has urged the company's shareholders to be patient, as it works through multiple challenges affecting its growth projects and its operating costs in Australia.
Woodside Petroleum has signed a sales and purchase agreement with Korea Gas Corporation for up to 2.2 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas over three years.
Woodside Petroleum has inked a deal to supply about 1.5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas over three years to Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power.
Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman and chairman Michael Chaney have paid tribute to company founder Geoff Donaldson, who passed away last week aged 99.
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 near certainty of a Coalition government being elected in September, and the single-handed control of state leader Colin Barnett, have reshaped Western Australia's 2013 Most Influential list –
WOODSIDE managing director Peter Coleman has called for a major rethink of the way engineering contractors and resources companies approach the development of new projects.
The shale gas industry doesn't stack up commercially and companies that have invested in the sector are following a herd mentality, Woodside managing director Peter Coleman said today.
Woodside Petroleum has held out the hope of proceeding with an alternative gas project in the Kimberley after spiralling costs forced it to terminate plans for a gas processing plant at James Price
Woodside Petroleum managing director Peter Coleman and executive director Rob Cole have been allocated shares at no cost under the company's executive incentive plan.
If any further evidence were needed that the commodities boom is over, management changes at some of the world's biggest resources companies seals the deal.
AS the world enters its fifth year of economic turbulence and even the best-insulated businesses in Western Australia are being affected, the factors that determine business influence in this state
Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman has taken the first tangible step towards his strategy of diversifying beyond the company's big growth projects in Western Australia.
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.
THREE trends stand out when the salary packages of newly appointed chief executives at Western Australian companies are examined.First,the bigger the company the higher the salary.
Western Australia's business leaders, including Woodside's Peter Coleman, said today the state needs to focus on meeting its own skilled labour needs, as Queensland Premier Anna Bligh swooped on th
Woodside Petroleum says talks with other gas owners about buying volumes to underpin an expansion of its Pluto liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia are edging closer to completion.
Incoming Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman said today he would focus on delivering on the company's established strategy, including work on its three major growth projects Pluto, Browse and Sunrise.
