Author: isoadmin

Australia looks set to increase its oil and gas production this year, according to data and analytics company GlobalData.

Investors are showing renewed confidence in Australia’s resources and energy sector, with some $1150 million raised in the December quarter.

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has welcomed 56 new local apprentices at a ceremony at the Coalfield Training Excellence Centre in Moranbah.

Shell Australia has announced an industrial-scale solar project near Wandoan, expected to create up to 200 new jobs during construction.

The Queensland Government has released new blocks of land in the Bowen and Surat Basins for petroleum and gas exploration.

UGL has won a number of maintenance, turnarounds and project services contracts for its Western Australian and Victorian clients within the oil and gas sector.

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance’s (BMA) Caval Ridge Mine in the Bowen Basin now holds the title of the world’s largest electronic blast completed using Dyno Nobel DigiShot technology.

A construction, maintenance and asset management company has won multiple contracts for part of two gas developments worth a combined $125 billion.

An independent statutory body will not be allowed to use an environmental theory to prevent new mining projects from proceeding, if new laws are approved.

Blue Energy is investigating the feasibility of developing a gas-fired power station on its Bowen Basin tenements near Nebo.

Nineteen new first-year apprentices have walked through the gates of Rio Tinto‘s three Gladstone plants – QAL, Boyne Smelters and Yarwun – to begin careers in the aluminum industry.

Saunders International has won a $30 million-plus maintenance contract at Rio Tinto’s Yarwun alumina refinery at Gladstone.

UGL – a CIMIC Group company – has secured approximately $180 million worth of contracts for works in the mining sector in Western Australia and Queensland.

Stanwell Corporation Limited has re-appointed Downer EDI as contractor for the Meandu coal mine in the South Burnett region in Queensland with a new five-year mining services contract award valued at approximately $600 million.

Senex Energy is now producing 20 TJ/d of natural gas from its projects in the Surat Basin, Queensland.

A pioneer in mining and metals is countering a downturn in iron ore by increasing production at its $2.6 billion metal development in Far North Queensland.

New Century Resources is continuing its march towards becoming a Top 10 global producer, with a seven per cent lift in zinc production last quarter.

Monadelphous has announced that it has recently been awarded multiple new and extension contracts with a total value of $110 million for construction and maintenance works in the resources and energy industries.

Senex Energy’s Project Atlas near Wandoan has started selling gas ahead of schedule, with Queensland power generator CleanCo among the first customers.

Santos lifted its 2025 production target further to 120mn barrels of oil equivalent, more than double 2018’s output. The new target, up from 100mn boe set in 2018, represents a cumulative annual growth rate in production of over 8% to 2025.

Rio Tinto, the Western Australian Government and South Metropolitan TAFE have partnered to launch an Australian-first qualification in automation, the Certificate IV in Autonomous Control and Remote Operations.

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A planned $415 million battery chemicals plant in Townsville will be powered by gas from the Bowen Basin under an agreement announced today.

Capricorn Copper is keen to add cobalt to its product line after modelling proving the extent of the resource at its copper operation, 125km north of Mount Isa.