Australia is due for a second wave of LNG project development, despite spiraling costs that have hindered further progress in recent years, Santos Vice President of LNG Markets and Eastern Australia Commercial Peter Cleary said. Speaking ...
Tags: LNG Development, LNG Markets
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, international mining group Rio Tinto and Australian solar energy firm Ingenero have announced an agreement for the development of the Weipa ...
Tags: Solar, Ingenero, Diesel-PV Hybrid
Australian coal exploration company Stanmore Coal estimates that 40% of global seaborne-traded thermal coal production of roughly 800 million mt and 45% of internationally traded coking coal production of around 300 million mt is ...
Tags: coal exploration, thermal coal
Norco has completed a successful trial sending fresh milk to China Australian dairy co-operative Norco has announced it has completed a successful trial shipment of fresh milk to China which will take milk from Australian dairy farms ...
Tags: Fresh Milk, Norco
Scientists at Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials are turning by-products of wood and wool into biodegradable packaging to help slash global plastic consumption. Dr Nishar Hameed says humans consume more than 100 ...
Tags: Wood pulp, silk fibres
The Australian economy seems to be improving, with two recent reports from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) indicating that the economy has turned for the better. Retail turnover up, even if only slightly The latest ABS Retail ...
Brazil's Vale produced 1.785 million mt of coal during the first quarter, up 1.9% on the year to a record Q1 volume due to the ramp up of the Moatize mine in Mozambique, the diversified miner said in a production report published late ...
Tags: Vale, Coal Production, coal
A national tribunal is to consider minimum safety standards for Australian petrol tankers, after nationwide research revealed 1 in 4 tanker drivers were pressured to speed and 1 in 2 drivers reported inadequate brake inspections. ...
Anglo American said Thursday that it increased output of iron ore and metallurgical coal in the first quarter ended March 31, mainly due to a ramp-up in operations. Iron ore production rose 10% year on year to 11.3 million mt on increased ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Coal Output
BHP Billiton has lifted its production guidance for Western Australian iron ore to 217 million mt for the 12 months to June 30, up by 5 million mt from its earlier estimate, the Melbourne-based miner said Wednesday. The "relatively ...
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7-Eleven is expanding to Western Australia Convenience store group 7-Eleven has announced it will be expanding into Western Australia in 2014, marking the first time the company has entered a new market in 32 years. With Western ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Convenience store
Trimble Transport and Logistics ANZ has launched a new fatigue management screen that makes it easier for truck companies and drivers to remain compliant with the new Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL). The Heavy Vehicle National Law was ...
Tags: Truck Fatigue, Heavy Vehicle
Woolworths has announced new long-term milk supply contracts Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says "will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to ...
Tags: Milk, Agriculture, Food
In the week ended March 31, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 2.84 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 1.6 percent ...
Tags: Coal Exports, Newcastle Port
The recall process for therapeutic goods in the Australian healthcare sector is set to become streamlined with GS1 Recallnet Healthcare having gone live. Developed over four years by GS1 Australia in association with the National E-Health ...