Peter Milne

Santos is battling blocked heat exchangers, failed subsea valves, and faulty safety doors 285km north of Darwin so it can reap the reward of high gas prices in Asia.

Alcoa acknowledged it destroyed the known habitat of protected species, including black cockatoos, quokkas and numbats. EXCLUSIVE

Pressure grows on Alcoa over strip-mining of Western Australian jarrah forest, which also threatens Perth’s water supply

Australia's most gas-dependent state can be well supplied for decades without drilling near Scott Reef or fracking the Kimberley, according to an exclusive analysis by Boiling Cold.

The Premier’s threat to frack the Kimberley if Woodside’s Browse is blocked is nonsense as he exempted it from his export ban.

The US company will have a monopoly over WA bauxite mining and alumina refining, which it plans to operate for 40 years.

INPEX bypassed equipment and ignored procedures agreed with the regulator that together were meant to keep the toxic metal contained.

Pilot Energy and Triangle Energy - two listed minnows with no revenue - may struggle to afford to decommission the Cliff Head platform off the WA coast.

The failure of Cliff Head's owners, Pilot Energy and Triangle Energy, to meet payroll does not bode well for their ability to pay the $200 million decommissioning cost.

The majority owner of the Cliff Head platform has called in administrators and other oil and gas producers will likely shoulder the cost.