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...

Darwin Innovation Hub Business

HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY

The world is on a mission towards decarbonisation and looking towards Australia as the source of imports. New hydrogen technologies and our natural advantages have the potential to place the Northern Territory in a globally competitive position to be a leading exporter of renewable energy. In early 2020, National Energy Resources Australia...

Department of Trade, Business and Innovation Business

CAPTURING POWER

The Northern Territory is ready to play a key part in the development of innovative energy technology in Australia. An innovative scientific and engineering trial has the potential to lead to the development of a  green hydrogen energy industry in the Northern Territory. The trial follows the NT being included in a new nationwide...

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...

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...

McArthur River Mining Issue 31

JERVOIS MINE APPROVED

In a huge win for local jobs, the mining management plan for the Jervois base metal project in Central Australia has officially been given the green light by the Territory Government. The project, 380 kilometres north east of Alice Springs, has the potential to create 350 jobs during peak production.  Government approval allows Kentor...

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...

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...