Tag: Australia

Sandvik to build manufacturing facility

Sandvik Mining and Construction has begun the process of building, in Australia, what will be one of the company’s largest manufacturing, assembly and repair centres in the world.

Sumitomo acquires

Sumitomo Corp. has announced that it has acquired a 70% stake in the project company which owns and operates the Kwinana power plant in Australia.

Stainless for grain-to-ethanol refinery

In Queensland, Australia the first grain-to-ethanol refinery in the country has begun production, with an expected output of more than 80 million litres a year.

Australia: nickel refinery at Gladstone

The Queensland state government has approved plans for Australia's largest nickel refinery to be built in Gladstone.

Titanium-rich discovery in Australia

Diversified explorer TNG Ltd has announce a new discovery of vanadium and titanium-rich magnetite mineralisation at its 100% owned Mt Peake Project, located 200km north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.

China: Dalian LNG terminal

China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) (Beijing) has begun construction on its Dalian LNG terminal to receive LNG from Australia and Qatar.

Australia: Kipper Project

Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, has awarded the key engineering contracts for the construction and development of the Kipper Gas Project in Bass Strait off SE Australia.

Australia: pre-FEED award for Gladstone LNG

Santos has awarded Foster Wheeler and Bechtel pre-FEED contracts for the estimated USD 6 billion Gladstone LNG project in Queensland, Australia.

LNG project in Australia

Foster Wheeler Ltd has announced that Woodside Burrup Pty Ltd has awarded the joint venture led by a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group for the onshore portion of Woodside's Pluto LNG Project in Western Australia.

Australia: subsea systems contract

Cameron has been awarded a contract worth USD 110 million to provide 13 subsea trees, manifolds and related equipment for BHP Billiton's Pyrenees project offshore NW Australia.