Listed technology firm QRSciences has secured a deal with the Chinese Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) to develop a security screening system for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The announcement of preferred tenderers for the Western Australian government’s 10-year, $80 million shared service centres has created ructions within the local information and communications technology industry.
A recent compressor failure on the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline has highlighted the important contribution to the gas supply in the South West of developments driven by junior players such as ARC Energy.
The seaside towns of Dongara and Port Denison are booming. But developments in the oil and gas industry and an influx of new residents are putting pressure on local amenities, as Alison Birrane reports.
The latest quarterly reports from the oil and gas players with stakes in the highly prospective Perth Basin indicate strengthening prospects on the back of a rising oil price and planned joint venture activity.
Property prices in Dongara and Port Denison have risen significantly during the past 12 months as increasing numbers of retirees, and those in search of a sea change lifestyle, add to the towns’ already thriving industry and business sectors.
As greater accountability is demanded of business, so-called ‘triple-bottom-line’ reporting is become the norm. But are ‘green’, or sustainable, business practices delivering tangible benefits? Alison Birrane and Marsha Jacobs report.
Recently-listed Liquid Natural Gas Limited has announced that it has signed the latest in a string of LNG deals, this time for the supply of LNG from Tanzania to an unnamed South African company.
Only those individuals who have managed to fully infuse their ethics throughout their business, personal and family lives are the true leaders, according to mining industry leader Ron Manners.
The aggressive exploration program of recently listed Strike Oil is on track with the company set to drill three wells in the Carnarvon basin this month.
BHP Billiton has announced $US3.2 billion in additional sales contracts over the next 10 years and the formal signing of the agreement for the Wheelarra joint venture.
Oil junior Kimberley Oil has signed an option agreement with Canada’s Golden Dynasty Resources Ltd that could see up to $3 million spent on its Canning Basin projects and a further $500,000 on the development of its oil solidification technology.
The territory dispute over the Greater Sunrise gas fields in the Timor Sea has created a question mark over Woodside's $5 billion Sunrise joint venture. Alison Birrane repor
In giving the green light to the $1.8 billion expansion of its Gove refinery, Canadian alumina producer Alcan has cleared the way for a further $1 billion investment in the Northern Territory and Western Australia to move forward.
Telstra's current price control arrangements have been put under the microscope at a public hearing held by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in Perth last week.
