25 February 2014 ABC News The Northern Territory Government has approved its first onshore petroleum licence in more than 30 years. The Surprise oil field in the Amadeus Basin was discovered two […]
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Article – BGC wins $60m Roy Hill iron ore contract
26 February 2014 Cole Latimer Ferret BGC Contracting has won a $60 million contract to supply ballast for Roy Hill’s railway system. The contract will see BGC provide more than one million […]
Read moreArticle – Australia's Rinehart nears $7.8 bln mine finance deal
26 February 2014 Sharon Klyne, Joyce Lee and Prakash Chakravarti Reuters Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill iron ore project is close to finalising a $7.8 billion financing deal, sources said, a […]
Read moreThe “Long Boom” Begins: Northern Development in 1950’s Australia
21 February 2014 Kerriann Lock The 1949 election of Robert Menzies as Prime Minister ushered in the “long boom” – over two decades of development, economic growth, low unemployment rates, and rising […]
Read moreArticle – Rinehart tying up finance as Roy Hill gets head of steam
15 February 2014 Sarah-Jane Tasker The Australian GINA Rinehart reaches the final stages of securing a debt package for her $10 billion Roy Hill project. Market jitters, a gloomy outlook for mining […]
Read moreArticle – Roy Hill close to $7b debt deal
10 February 2014 Nick Evans The West Australian The news comes as Roy Hill’s equity partners – including Mrs Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting, Marubeni, Korean conglomerate POSCO and Taiwanese steelmaker China Steel Corporation […]
Read moreArticle – Fortescue announces new WA gas pipeline, transportation agreement
30 January 2014 Pipelines International Fortescue Metals Group has signed a long-term gas-transportation agreement for the delivery of gas to reduce operating costs at its Pilbara operations in Western Australia. Gas will […]
Read moreArticle – Gas hits a cost wall
22 January 2014 Angela Macdonald-Smith Australian Financial Review “The crazy thing is that four or five years ago everyone was talking about a flood of ramp-up gas.” – Mark Samter, Credit Suisse […]
Read moreArticle – An Arrow into our High Costs
22 January 2014 Australian Financial Review The feared scrapping of a planned $20 billion stand-alone LNG production train at Gladstone by the Shell-led Arrow Energy venture marks the final turning of the […]
Read moreArticle – Mining states continue to lead economy
20 January 2014 Melanie Timbrell Commonwealth Bank of Australia The resource rich states of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland continued as frontrunners in CommSec’s quarterly State of the States report. WA […]
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