Alcoa flags 'pretty aggressive' cost cuts at alumina refineries
Alcoa chief executive Bill Oplinger told Wall Street the US aluminium specialist could take strong action to boost profits from alumina, most of which it refines in Western Australia.
BP has stood down contractors working on its biofuel plant just weeks before discovering if its adjacent green hydrogen project will win $1 billion of government backing.
Carbon storage has gone from "high-risk" to the preferred option at the controversial gas export mega-project.
A massive oil spill and allegations of a cover-up have resulted in just a $10,000 fine for the $22 billion company.
The Parron wind farm could slash the carbon pollution from generating WA's power by one million tonnes a year.
Woodside will buy Chevron's one-sixth stake in the North West Shelf project and relinquish its stake in the Wheatstone LNG project to the US major.
A struggling deal between two companies will determine if an unused oil platform off the WA coast is used for carbon storage or needs to be decommissioned.
The Japanese energy giant is cherry-picking data to justify its gas growth plans.
The ten-year forecast stops short of when gas could become very scarce and expensive in Australia's most gas-dependent state.
Australia's largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace will test technology that could secure the future of Australia's largest export.
Nuclear energy is shaping up as an election fig leaf like no other.
The US firm is cleaning up caustic liquid after a power loss and working to restore full production at its largest alumina refinery.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is set to unveil the cost of a controversial nuclear power plan should the coalition come to power at the federal election.
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