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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.

The Bradfield Scheme is back on the agenda.

The first plan was drafted by Queensland engineer John Bradfield in 1938 with the aim to capture water from north Queensland rivers and irrigate areas west of the Great Dividing Range.

New interest partly in supplying gas for the domestic market is being matched with exploration opportunities in Queensland.

Australia already has more LNG production capacity than former leader Qatar and has actually shipped more LNG on occasional months over the past year.

Queensland’s oil and gas industry contributed approximately $54.5 billion to the state’s economy in the past seven years, according to a report.

The ramp-up of North-West Queensland’s Dugald River mine has continued successfully, with a record 47,296 tonnes of zinc in zinc concentrate produced last quarter, MMG says.

The natural gas industry contributed about $55 billion to Queensland’s economy over a seven year period, according to a new report.

Gas and oil giant Santos will pay more than $2 billion to acquire ConocoPhillips’ northern Australia business.

Senex Energy has achieved first gas production at Project Atlas in the Surat Basin. The Project Atlas drilling campaign commenced in August 2019 and Senex says 11 wells are complete out of about 60 planned wells.

A zinc upsurge in North West Queensland and the continued climb in Australian gold prices are among the highlights of the latest resources industry report card.