Northern Endeavour oil vessel without power for weeks in Timor Sea
The blackout is another problem in a clean-up effort of an ex-Woodside vessel that will cost Australia's oil and gas producers well over $1 billion.
Costly, complex, and with old technology, the 60-year-old alumina refinery that had employed 800 workers is unlikely to reopen.
The 2022 incident is one of many at Alcoa's three refineries that are under an increased level of surveillance from the work safety regulator.
The two projects will be "recycled" amid BP's concerns about costs and government policy.
The cost of managing water where it stores 140 million tonnes of caustic red mud has doubled.
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.
Australia's largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace will test technology that could secure the future of Australia's largest export.
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