Middle Arm Industrial Precinct Business

GAS HUB BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE

The vision has three elements – gas production going ahead at Beetaloo Basin, the development of manufacturing precinct on the outskirts of Darwin and the laying of a 1000-kilometre utilities corridor across the Territory Outback. It is being seen as one of the most exciting economic development plans in Territory history. Financial...

SANTOS Business

SANTOS TO POWER THE NORTH

Santos Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Gallagher recently outlined Santos’ 2021 Northern Territory plans at Chief Minister Michael Gunner’s 2021 Year Ahead speech. The Year Ahead event, held at the Darwin Convention Centre, included presentations from the Territory Government and leading Top End businesses and offered...

Business

MINE GIVEN GO AHEAD

In a significant boost for the NT economy and prospects for local jobs, the Territory Government has granted final approval to Core Lithium to commence development of its new mine in the Top End. The Finniss project, 35 kilometres west of Berry Springs, is a proposed open-cut lithium mine. It is the first lithium mine to be approved outside...

McArthur River Mining Pty Ltd Business

CREATING JOBS FOR LOCAL PEOPLE

Growing up in remote mining towns in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, McArthur River Mining’s Carrie Bendeich has always had a deep connection to the local communities she’s lived in. It comes as no surprise that she chose a career path that would see her working with similarly culture-rich communities in regional and remote...

INPEX Business

INPEX’S PLAN FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

INPEX’s investments in Australia – which include the massive Ichthys LNG facilities – are the largest of their kind by any Japanese company globally. In parallel with building trust with its stakeholders through consultation and engagement, INPEX is committed to providing benefits to the communities in which it operates and contributing...

INPEX Business

CREATING CAREERS AT INPEX

INPEX is keen to attract, train and develop people who want to make their mark. A vibrant company committed to discovering and delivering global energy solutions, INPEX is operating the world-class Ichthys LNG development. With 40 years of Ichthys LNG operations and new ventures ahead, the company is attracting determined and passionate people...

Winnellie Hydraulics Business

GAS POWERED GROWTH

Winnellie Hydraulics is a textbook example of how a good local firm can expand because of the presence of global resources companies. Fitter and turner Richard Nicholson started the business in a small workshop in Darwin in 1983. He probably doesn’t remember the turnover in that year – but it wasn’t much. Today, the company enjoys...

Origin Business

KYALLA: A STORY OF FIRSTS

Thirty-five kilometres east of the Stuart Highway and about 70 kilometres south-east of Daly Waters as the cocky flies, stands Origin’s Kyalla 117 gas well. It’s in the heart of the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin, the first of five such geological areas of strategic significance, identified by the Federal Government as having the...

Department of Trade, Business, and Innovation Business

HEART OF THE MATTER

The very heart of the Northern Territory will be top of the agenda at the NT’s premier mineral and petroleum exploration conference. New geological survey data for the Barkly Tablelands and exciting drill results from the Beetaloo sub-basin will be detailed at the Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar in Alice Springs from April...

Department of Trade, Business, and Innovation Business

UNLOCKING THE BEETALOO

The Beetaloo Sub-basin’s resource potential is a significant opportunity for the economic recovery of the Northern Territory (NT) and Australia. Industry analysis projects that Beetaloo development could produce 6,000 jobs by 2040. Economic activity could increase between $18.0 billion and $36.8 billion over the same period.  The...

Jemena Business

JEMENA’S MAN BUILDING TRUST

Jemena’s new NT Corporate Development Manager has lived and worked in regional Australia for more than three decades and if the job was not based in Darwin, he was prepared to watch the opportunity pass by. So passionate about the decentralisation of governance to regional areas, Brendan Bourke, made the decision to leave Western Australia...

Energy Club NT Business

PERFECTLY PLACED

As a regional jurisdiction, the experience of the Northern Territory supply chain is often underestimated.  While our size and population may be deceiving, this understated capability may just be our trump card in the race to attract investment. While capacity has been through ebbs and flows with fluctuating demand, the truth is, there...