Wandoo oil off WA gives Vermilion a profit-free decade
No profit, falling production, inadequate maintenance, a safety plan in limbo and a big clean-up if exploration fails: challenges aplenty at the Canadian company's only offshore facility.
In WA, the east coast power utility AGL retails gas and owns the gas-fired Kwinana Swift power station.
The 250 MW station is set to open in 2029, when coal-fired generation ends in South West WA, but new gas turbines are increasingly hard to get.
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