WA drives Alcoa $US4.1b buy of South32 aluminium business
The US company will have a monopoly over WA bauxite mining and alumina refining, which it plans to operate for 40 years.
Woodside is confident it will not have to pipe gas to WA from its giant Pluto project despite the company’s five-year reprieve from the State’s domestic gas policy ending in May 2017.
Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman hopes the ramp-up of Wheatstone goes well as the Perth-based group braces for a big reduction in its domestic gas sales in 2017
Chevron’s budget and schedule for the Wheatstone LNG project face questions from significant unplanned work underway on the project’s offshore platform.
The cost of Chevron's Wheatstone LNG project has jumped $US5B a week after minor partner Woodside said it expected no changes.
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