Unconventional gas from central Australia's Cooper Basin could be the answer to a looming supply shortage in the eastern state of New South Wales, according to Beach Energy Managing Director Reg Nelson. Beach has been among the ...
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A combination of new supply sources and rising costs at home could mean Australia's burgeoning LNG sector losing ground to new players, several speakers at an oil industry conference in Brisbane warned this week. On Sunday the chief ...
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Australian coalseam gas junior WestSide has decided to bring talks over a potential takeover to a conclusion in the "near term," the company said in a statement Tuesday. Westside announced in November 2012 that it had received an ...
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Korea Gas Corporation, the world's single-largest buyer of LNG, has stepped up efforts to sell part of its stake in Australia's Gladstone LNG project, a company official told Platts Friday. The South Korean state-owned company has ...
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Chinese majority-owned coal producer Yancoal has announced that its open-pit mines Yarrabee and Middlemount have been affected by the heavy rainfalls impacting Australia's Queensland region. Production from the mines is likely to be ...
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Exoma Energy has been forced into a rethink after a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned offshore company CNOOC failed to receive Beijing's approval for a planned subscription to a parcel of shares in the Australian coalseam gas junior. ...
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Rio Tinto Alcan announced the draft Commonwealth Environmental Impact Statement for the South of Embley Project. Mr Pat Fiore Rio president & CEO of Tinto Alcan, Bauxite and Alumina said that the project will extend bauxite mining ...
A mechanical failure at a central Queensland alumina refinery has released an unknown amount of chemical waste into a residential area of Gladstone. Queensland Alumina's refinery in Gladstone is the largest in the world. The refining ...
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China-based U & D Mining's proposed A$71 million ($73.5 million) takeover of Queensland coal explorer Endocoal has been cleared by Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board, Endocoal said in a statement Friday. A letter dated December 5 ...
UK gas giant BG Group is still looking to develop a third production train at its Queensland Curtis LNG project in eastern Australia, although the timing of the expansion is uncertain, according to a senior company executive. Martin ...
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US-based Gladstone Investment has announced an investment of $16.5m in Frontier Packaging, through a combination of debt and equity. Investment management company Gladstone provided the capital to purchase the business from its previous ...
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Boulder Steel is chomping at the bit to build a steel plant in the Gladstone region and says there will be benefits for everyone. The plant, if built, will become one of the region's biggest employers with 1800 permanent operational staff. ...
Rio Tinto Alcan released the draft Commonwealth Environmental Impact Statement for the South of Embley Project. Mr Pat Fiore Rio Tinto Alcan president and CEO Bauxite and Alumina said that the project will extend bauxite mining operations ...
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Qantas will deploy wide-body Airbus A330s on all weekday Sydney-Perth and Melbourne-Perth services. A new Qantas A330, which landed in Sydney this week from the Airbus factory in Toulouse, will become the ninth A330 flying on the Qantas ...