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Trustee backs off from move on Palandri arm
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THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Business: Woodside Petroleum expects to find at least anther one trillion cubic feet of gas around its Pluto field this year, and possibly up to 3tcf, as it battles to secure enough reserves to justify the development of a second processing train for the key $12 billion project.
Fears that the credit crunch is threatening to claim another high-profile victim jolted financial markets yesterday, sending the Australian stockmarket plunging more than 100 points in the last two hours of trading.
Mutliplex's half share in Perth's BankWest tower is for sale for about $200 million in what is seen as a test of the strength of the Perth market since the global credit crunch.
The Queensland Public Trustee has backed off from putting receivers into Palandri's crippled financing arm as company-appointed administrators continued to sift through the tangled mess of financing arrangements.
Fast-growing engineering group MacMahon Holdings has put its acquisition aspirations on ice until financial markets settle and company valuations become clearer.
