The prospect of Australia's coal seam gas industry developing large-scale export projects has received a major boost with BG Group (formerly British Gas) agreeing to invest $664 million in Queensland Gas Company.
Independent Practitioner Network Ltd today completed the $32 million acquisition of Fremantle-based medical services company Gemini Administration Services Pty Ltd.
Italian-owned ENI Australia Ltd shut down production at its Woollybutt joint venture with Tap Oil Ltd and Mobil after a safety incident forced the evacuation of personnel.
Hillcrest Litigation Services Ltd has announced that it could receive up to $1 million after a Federal Court success in funding a legal case involving Meadow Springs Fairway Resort Ltd and finance group Knightsbridge Managed Funds Ltd.
The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia data released today show a fall of almost three per cent on the median house price for the March quarter, pulling it down from $470,000 at the end of last year to around $457,000 currently.
Tiger Resources Ltd has issued shares at $0.45 to raise $22.7 million pursuant to the underwriting agreements with RBC capital Markets and Tolhurst Ltd in respect of the shortfall of options that expired on 31 March 2008.
Brumby Resources Ltd has today advised that its underwritten 1-for-2 pro-rata non-renounceable entitlements issue to shareholders was taken up by shareholders represented 59% of the entitlements issue.
Woodside Energy has appointed the Australian Institute of Marine Science to undertake a $25 million environmental study of Scott Reef, in the midst of the gas-rich Browse Basin off Western Australia's Kimberley coast.
Woodside Energy and BHP Billiton Petroleum are the winners in the annual safety awards presented by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) for 2008.
Consolidated Minerals Ltd managing director Rod Baxter resigned today, three months after Ukrainian group Palmary Enterprises completed a hotly contested takeover of the diversified mining company.
Global energy company, Chevron, has selected the University of Western Australia to join its three year $6.9 million global university partnership program.
PharmAust Ltd has announced that the pending legal action instituted by Chimaera Capital Ltd in September 2007 will be discontinued by an agreement between the parties reached yesterday.
The trend towards more liberal retail trading hours in WA is gaining momentum with the state government approving extended trading throughout December and the City of Bunbury backing deregulation of trading through the year.
Western Metals Ltd has signed a Term Sheet to acquire 100% of the advanced Parys Mountain copper-zinc project on the island of Anglesey in North Wales from Anglesey Mining plc, a UK based mining company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The state government has launched a $7.7 million North West Shelf environmental study today, to help planners better manage Australia's marine ecosystems.
Western Power has today signed a five year alliance agreement with Transfield Services, worth approximately $100 million in revenue in its first year of operation.
Perth-based CO2 Group Ltd has announced the company's 100% owned subsidiary CO2 Australia Ltd has reached agreement with Inpex Browse Ltd on a biosequestration assessment project to assess its potential in respect of the Ichthys field development.
The three major farming organisations representing rural water users in Western Australia, are estatic with the news that the second set of water licence fee regulations have been knocked back.
West Perth-based Territory Resources Ltd announced today it has committed to spend $25 million over the next two years to substantially expand its resource base at the Frances Creek iron ore project in the Northern Territory.
The Western Australian Farmers Federation and independent grains manager, Emerald have formed an alliance to help WA farmers take more control of their wheat marketing in the wake of Australian market deregulation.
Leederville-based uranium development company Bannerman Resources has today confirmed that the majority of its Opes Prime related holding has been sold.
Relations between Perth-based Crescent Gold Ltd and its former contractor Bemex Corporation Pty Ltd have soured as the companies head to court to resolve a $3 million dispute.
Osborne Park-based technology developer, Structural Monitoring Systems Plc has announced the successful trial installation of its comparative vacuum monitoring system (CVM) on a Boeing commercial aircraft.
Perth-based gold and copper explorer Sierra Mining Ltd has informed Medusa Mining Ltd that it has been unable to approve a planned joint venture agreement.
West Perth-based iron ore miner Murchison Metals Ltd has acquired two tenements from Austral Gold Ltd and Joytell Pty Ltd, to be known as the Rocklea Project, in the Pilbara iron ore region for a total cash consideration of $9 million.
West Perth-based Moly Mines Ltd has announced the completion of the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract with WorleyParsons for its 20 million tonne per annum Spinifex Ridge Molybdenum Project.
Gindalbie Metals Ltd has moved to substantially expand the scope of its iron ore business with the commencement of a feasibility study on increasing the start-up production rate of the Karara Magnetite Project from 8mt/annum to 12mt/annum.
West Perth-based clean coal technology developer Metex Resources Ltd, through its Joint Venture with CSIRO and Carbon Energy Pty Ltd (CEPL), has announced today that it had received all necessary approvals to proceed with a large-scale A$20 million Underg
