MINES and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore has announced two significant milestones in the State Government’s drive to improve Western Australia’s approvals processes.
24/06/2009
AUSTRALIA’s coal seam gas (CSG) sector has reported record production for 2007/8, while petroleum trade has continued to soar.
10/09/2008
MINES and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore has announced a new study examining the potential for carbon capture and storage in the Western Australia.
10/06/2009
BOW Energy has entered into an irrevocable binding agreement to sell its interest in ATP 574P, located in Queensland’s Surat Basin, to Victoria Petroleum.
05/11/2009
INNAMINCKA Petroleum says AGL Energy, operator of the coal seam gas program for PEL 103 and PEL 103A joint ventures located in the Cooper Basin, has concluded drilling on the Merninie 2 coal seam gas exploration well.This was the first well in a three well programme.
06/11/2009
ANGLO Coal is cashing in on the recent wave of coal seam gas (CSM) consolidation with the sale of its Dawson Seamgas business plant in Queensland.
09/01/2009
ENERGY and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor is calling for nominations from the earth resource industry for the 2009 Strzelecki Awards.
19/03/2009
THE CSIRO has released a brochure on the benefits and capabilities of its CO2Well model which predicts carbon dioxide flow in injection wells for the subsurface storage of carbon dioxide.
18/09/2009
THE NORTHERN Territory Chief Minister Paul Henderson has told attendees at NT Resources Week that the future of the Northern Territory is one of growth, expansion and optimism.
11/09/2009
DISPUTES in the Bowen Basin coalfields have prompted moves by lobby groups to reform relationships between miners and farmers.
04/09/2008
THE Victorian Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has completed an inquiry into the Yallourn Coal Mine collapse which cut the mine’s power supply and forced it to close in November 2007.
21/01/2009
NORTHERN Territory Minister for Resources, Kon Vatskalis has travelled to China leading a delegation of local businesses to take part in a number of high level meetings and investment seminars aimed at fostering Chinese investment.
11/05/2009
BHP Billiton is making some improvements following the release of its environmental assessment.
19/05/2009
BLUE Energy says drilling at the Itude 3 well in the Walloon Coal Measures was stalled by a drill rig string failure but now an alternative coring string has been sourced and operations have recommenced.
11/08/2009
BLUE Energy spud its Oakey Power 1 coal seam gas (CSG) well on 6 October 2009.
09/10/2009
BOW Energy has announced the near tripling of the certified 2P coal seam gas (CSG) reserves on the Don Juan Project to 101 petajoules (PJ).
21/10/2009
MINES and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore has announced that the State Government has taken the unprecedented step of ordering stop work notices for any breach of workplace conditions related to BHP Billiton sites until the problem is fixed.
01/04/2009
WESTSIDE Corporation is hoping to secure two petroleum exploration tenements in the coal-rich Galilee Basin, Queensland.
04/09/2009
MINISTER for Mineral Resources Ian Macdonald has announced that the NSW Government, in conjunction with the University of Newcastle, will establish a NSW Institute for Frontier Geoscience at the university.
22/06/2009
WA Mines and Petroleum Minister Norman Moore has welcomed the inclusion of a local project examining carbon capture and storage in Western Australia’s South-West for a share in a $2 billion Federal Government program.
08/12/2009