Energy

Several local councils are hoping the state’s assets privatisation program will give them control over one of their most significant expenses – the cost of operating street lights.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has awarded a front-end engineering and design contract to a consortium comprising two NYSE-listed companies, for its proposed Browse FLNG project.

Coogee Chemicals has started the new financial year with a freshly installed executive chairman in Tim Martin, and a new managing director in Grant Lukey.

Woodside Petroleum has stuck with its planned timetable for the Browse gas project, announcing today it has reached agreement with its joint venture partners to commence front-end engineering and design ahead of a final investment decision by the end of 2016.

WA has become a leader in wave energy, but commercial realities loom as a major constraint to rolling out the technology to the national electricity market.

The state government expects to reap inabout $1 billion in revenue after signing a development agreement with the Woodside Petroleum-led Browse consortium to supply 800 perajoules of gas to the domestic market.

Stonehenge Metals has entered into an agreement with Yanchep Beach joint venture for collaboration on the development of a wave farm off the state’s coast to potentially supply energy to the Two Rocks community.

THE launch this month of independent oil and gas producer Quadrant Energy has underlined the big role private equity investors play in Western Australia, owning more than a dozen major businesses acro

Pacific Energy has won a contract to build, own and maintain a 14 megawatt power station at Saracen Mineral Holding’s Thunderbox gold project near Leinster for an undisclosed sum.