BHP Billiton recorded a nine per cent increase in overall production and also achieved output records at 12 operations in the last 2013-14 financial year. On release of the company’s...
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A share of Glencore’s NCA coal project, which includes the Newlands and Collinsville mines in Central Queensland, are up for sale as Japanese investors, Itochu and Sumitomo, look to reduce...
Election of new Indonesian president encouraging for foreign investment in energy and mining sectors
Joko Widodo’s victory over opponent Prawbowo Subianto in the Indonesian presidential election yesterday could mean increased activity in Indonesia’s oil and gas sector with the new...
The proposed Hawsons Iron Project joint venture, 60km southwest of Broken Hill, has secured port access for up to 12 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of iron ore concentrate through the existing...
The head of Queensland’s Resources Council has accused green groups of deliberately misleading the public about the number of coal ships projected to pass through the Great Barrier Reef by 2020...
Resources and energy contractors, WorleyParsons, announced last week that they had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Wison Offshore & Marine under which the companies will jointly...
Safe Work Australia is currently reviewing workplace blood lead removal levels, i.e. the levels at which a worker must be removed from lead risk work, and the associated workplace exposure standard...
The Department of Mines and Petroleum has charged Crushing Services International Pty Ltd (CSI) in relation to the death of a Pilbara mine worker in August last year. Electrician Kurt Williams died...
On the same day Parliament repealed the carbon tax, the Government announced it will inject $1billion into renewable energy projects being developed by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)...
Australia’s peak oil and gas body has told the Labor Party to, “take a step back and make a clear-eyed assessment of what will be jeopardised if it fails to support the use of Maritime...
