ENEABBA Gas has announced its plans to build a 168mW coal-gas power plant to supply West Australia’s mind-west.
14/09/2009
WR CARPENTER has entered contracts with AE&E Australia to design and construct a co-generation power plant at Worsley Alumina’s refinery in Western Australia.
04/11/2008
ENERGY and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor has announced HRL’s decision to submit a planning application for a new Dual Gas Demonstration project near Morwell in the Latrobe Valley.
25/09/2009
A CONSORTIUM comprising GE Energy, Stanwell Corporation and Xstrata Coal has announced that it plans to open a 400 megawatt power plant incorporating carbon capture and storage in the Surat Basin.
30/07/2009
COUGAR Energy says that its Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) pilot project near Kingaroy in Queensland is on track to meet its 2009 target of a pre-production burn.
16/06/2009
THE NSW Government has approved a $200 million gas-fired peaking power station at Leafs Gully in south-west Sydney.
12/08/2009
VERVE Energy engineering services manager Andy Wearmouth says that the company is considering the use of dry cooling technology at its future Collie B.
28/08/2009
TWO New South Wales Government-owned power generators Macquarie and Delta want to greatly expand their output and are examining the option of both coal and gas power to achieve it.
23/07/2009
BJD Crushers has supplied six BJD Hammermills to pulverise coal at a new co-generation power plant being built at the Worsley Alumina refinery in Western Australia.
24/09/2009
HONEYWELL has signed an agreement with Australia-based Synengco under which Honeywell will license and sell SentientSystem a suite of advanced applications that optimise operations and provide sophisticated asset management for utility power customers.
09/09/2009
QUEENSLAND has taken an international lead in the commercialisation of low-emission electricity production with the announcement that two carbon capture and storage power plant projects have won pre-feasibility study funding.
09/12/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Coal Association Research Program is helping to fund research which will improve the efficiency of power station fine coal grinding circuits through the application of modelling and simulation technology.
19/03/2009
BHP Billiton has vetoed plans for a new smelter at its Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia.
20/10/2008
HATCH will work with Metorex to upgrade the Kinsenda copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
28/08/2008
JUBILEE Mines approached GR Engineering Services (GRES) to prepare a proposal for the construction of its Sinclair nickel deposit in Western Australia.
24/09/2009
ENERGY and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor has welcomed the 60th anniversary of the Altona Refinery.
21/10/2009
You wouldn’t think that magnets play an important role in the recycling, mining & quarrying industry, but they do.
07/12/2009
ABB has announced that it has won a three-year contract worth approximately $19 million for Vale Inco’s New Caledonia nickel and cobalt plant.
21/07/2009
OUTOTEC Australia Floatation Manager Dr Robert Coleman says that since the mining boom is over, is more important than ever to optimise current plant performance.
22/06/2009
One of the Asia-Pacific’s major producers of zinc for building industry products has achieved near zero downtime and breakdowns as a result of introducing a programmed maintenance agreement with the Konecranes group.
08/12/2009