WA Premier Roger Cook's core "Made in WA" election policy will be tested by his use of local content provisions to keep Chevron's WA engineers working in WA.
Maintaining social license for oil and gas keeps executives awake at night according to industry lobby group APPEA that is researching how to fix the problem
The owner of an oil vessel in the Timor Sea falling into liquidation may make the Federal Government very cautious about who ExxonMobil can sell its Bass Strait assets to.
Stephen Edwell, the independent chair of WA's energy transformation taskforce, has just a few years to stop a solar surge overwhelming the South West power grid.
WA is the only state in Australia with rising emissions on the back of new LNG projects that will make meeting Paris Agreement emissions reductions very dificult.
Chevron is preparing to shed about 400 employees from its WA business, just months after approving a new construction project and backing an LNG jobs initiative.
Two of the biggest players in WA’s gas-propelled economy, Woodside Petroleum and Alcoa, are starting to look to renewables to slash their gas use as doubts rise about how big a role the fossil fuel will play in the transition to clean energy.
In 2007 WA lost 30% of its gas supply, and Apache Energy workers were lucky not to lose their lives, after a corroded gas pipeline failed and produced a gigantic explosion.
Chevron has paid the Australian Taxation Office $US654 million ($866 million) under a partial settlement of its dispute with the tax office over intercompany loans and slashed the interest rate it charged its Australian subsidiary.
WA’s charge into the battery minerals industry is gathering pace, with Kidman Resources and Chilean lithium giant SQM looking to build Kwinana’s second lithium refinery.
