POSITIONING the firm for an elevated profile, the board of local stockbroking and corporate services group DJ Carmichael & Co has voted in a new managing director, its second in a year.
ANDERSEN Australia had barely moved in with Ernst & Young this week when well-known former Andersen tax partner, Keith Johns, opened his doors in West Perth.
AS WA-registered Aquarius Platinum makes final preparations to present its South African interests to the Alternative Investment Market in London, Perth-based Platinum Australia is nearly ready to start up a suburban pilot plant.
BUSINESS appears to have had a win with the WA Government announcing that it will not continue with its controversial plan to drag employee-like contractors into the payroll tax net.
PHILLIPS Petroleum’s consolidation of its Perth staff into a new West Perth building at the end of the year highlights Perth’s attraction as a major Australian oil and gas service centre.
DESPITE no previous serious exploration on its 1,000 square kilometre territory in the West Musgrave region, West Musgrave Mining has wasted no time in seeking to prove up its holdings.
January is the month of new beginnings in the Western world.The investment world was no exception this year, with five new ASX listings in a range of industries coming out of WA between January 17 and 31.
Several smaller WA gold and nickel explorers have been busy striking deals with larger international producers in recent weeks, to gain territory and advance exploration.
INDUSTRY players insist the main barrier to achieving agreement on the Greater Sunrise project in the Timor Sea has very little to do with Australia and a great deal to do with the opportune North American west coast market,
WA produces 70 per cent of Australia’s gold and all of the nation’s LNG, but while recent consolidation in the international gold industry has had a significant effect on WA, the same cannot be said for oil and gas.
RECENT oil discoveries in the Perth Basin have highlighted remaining opportunities in the WA oil and gas sector, in particular those for small players.
A GAS discovery is not the same as an oil discovery. Oil means immediate dollars, but any potential gas recovery first requires market creation, which means someone else wanting to use more gas over a comparatively long period of time.
AUSTRALIA LNG, marketing arm of North West Shelf LNG, is now entering a waiting period of up to five months, having put the finishing touches on its bid to gain one of the industry’s most significant supply contracts.
Curtin University of Technology is to support an initiative bringing together the leaders of ten WA companies to share experiences in implementing changes in corporate practice.
DISENCHANTMENT with the service, resentment at the fees, laments about never being heard. Research into banks and their customers often ends up as an exposé of the grief felt by customers, repeated by commentators and felt by employees.
The Perth office of an international science and engineering consulting firm is proving a vital link between the Chinese mining community and international investment and mining communities wanting a share of emerging opportunities in China.
The extended wait for a decision on tariffs for Epic Energy’s Dampier to Bunbury pipeline is having a negative effect on the State’s investment climate, as Susan Bower reports.
LAST week’s trade mission to Perth by the Northern Offshore Federation’s Export Club underscored the growing international profile of WA’s petroleum industry.
Evidence of global trade in oil and gas industry services was not difficult to find in the world’s most geographically isolated capital city over the past week, nor were the comparisons and contrasts between world regions.
Ernst & Young’s newest recruit for its Perth office, Rod Willers, views the rationale for his recent workplace move in the same terms as the work he does for clients.
YOU become acutely aware you are perceived as doing something different from the rest when the doorbell won’t stop ringing and the requests are all the same: “Can we join in?”
SIX groups looking to pioneer an Australian gas-to-liquids industry are poised to get a much better idea of the climate in which they may be operating.
A new era dawned for the financial sector this week with the implementation of the Financial Services Reform Act 2001, but some of those most affected may not yet have woken to this.
It would appear negotiations towards providing the long-term power needs of Esperance and surrounding areas have not proceeded as smoothly as first hoped.
