Apache Energy has awarded a $US170 million ($A195 million) contract to a Norwegian and Malaysian joint venture for works at its Devil Creek gas project offshore Western Australia.
Shares in the Tony Sage-led International Goldfields have been placed in a trading halt pending an announcement relating to an acquisition of an oil and gas project.
Heron Resources says the first tranche of a project joint venture deal with Ningbo Shanshan has been completed, with the Chinese entity injecting $2.7 million into the West Perth-based explorer.
Troy Resources chairman John Dow has fired the side's first shot at dissident shareholder, former chairman John Jones, who is trying to stop a dilutive capital raising.
Takeover target Polaris Metals says there could be another takeover offer in the wings as first bidder Minerals Resources lifts its interest to 22.3 per cent.
Timber company Gunns has put itself into the bidder's circle for Great Southern's assets, a day after it lost its bid for Timbercorp's forestry assets to a US-based company.
The number of Western Australian business rated as a high risk of failure has risen from a year ago despite signs suggesting the economy is on the mend, new analysis shows.
The Russell Barnett-chaired pharmaceutical company Freedom Eye is set to become a uranium player after it agreed to acquire a project near Meekatharra from Empire Resources.
Jameson Resources will divest its Ora Banda gold assets near Kalgoorlie to Subiaco-based Winchester Resources, which is planning a $2 million initial public offer.
Perth-based Pacific Energy has signed a deal with OM Holdings to acquire and boost capacity of an existing power station at the latter's Bootu Creek manganese mine in the Northern Territory.
Less than four months after dropping a takeover proposal for Buru Energy, director Eric Streitberg is set to take the helm of the company as former Western Australian minister Peter Jones joins the board.
Shares in Lynas Corporation have slumped after emerging from a trading halt that was implemented to conduct the $285 million institutional component of its planned $450 million capital raising.
The global economic downturn coupled with two major acquisitions has pushed the bottom line of Patersons Securities into the red, with the Perth stockbroking firm recording a net loss of $389,238 for the 2009 financial year.
THE corporate watchdog has agreed to fund an investigation into the collapse of failed white goods business Kleenmaid that could pave the way for criminal charges to be laid against the company's directors.
The building watchdog has thrown its support behind CBI Constructors in legal action against more than 100 workers who went on an eight-day strike last year at the North West Shelf expansion project.
Magellan Metals says it has exported its first sealed shipments of lead carbonate through the Fremantle port, with the cargo destined for a Yunnan Metallurgical Group smelter in China.
Discount retailer The Reject Shop will open a further four new stores in Western Australia by November as part of a broader state plan to open a record 22 stores in the first half of 2009/10.
The environmental watchdog has given its go-ahead for the construction of a new 500 boat capacity marina at Rockingham, saying it was unlikely to impact on the local environment.
West Perth-based Polaris Metals has confirmed it has held talks with its largest shareholder but has not received or is aware of any takeover proposal that may be launched.
Global company Nystar will pay $6.6 million to buy a major stake in Subiaco-based Ironbark Gold, and has agreed to a life-of mine offtake deal for the latter's Citronen lead-zinc project.
Leederville-based Cazaly Resources has failed to wrest control of the Rhodes Ridge tenements, which contain billion of dollars of iron ore, from mining giant Rio Tinto.
The second legal showdown between Murchison Metals and Chameleon Mining is due to start tomorrow over key Mid West iron ore tenements valued at up to $1.5 billion.
Perth companies Vulcan Resources and Universal Resources have agreed to merge through a scheme of arrangement, nearly one month after both explorers flagged a friendly merger.
Mining company OMH Holdings has secured a $294 million deal to acquire a majority stake in a South African manganese project, and will welcome Brian Gilbertson onto its board.
Michael Minosora has resigned as the chief financial officer of Fortescue Metals Group to take up the managing director position at little known West Perth-based explorer, Atlantic.
The former chairman of West Perth-based Troy Resources, John Jones, has launched a bid to remove three of the explorer's directors, including chief executive Paul Benson.
