Energy & Natural Resources

The corporate regulator has filed proceedings seeking to wind up a company in the steel empire of billionaire Sanjeev Gupta for failure to lodge financial reports for four years. 

A court has rejected a bid to apportion costs by Downer after it found ICC arbitration proceedings the company brought against Squadron were invalidly commenced, saying the engineering company had lost on the core issue in dispute.

KHQ Lawyers has snagged a leading infrastructure and energy lawyer from Macpherson Kelley for its newly rebranded construction, infrastructure and energy practice.

Terramin Exploration can't seek judicial review of a decision that rejected its bid for a mining lease for its Bird in Hand gold project in the Adelaide Hills near Woodside in South Australia, but succeeded in having a reservation decision set aside. 

The High Court has been asked to undo a stay granted to gas giants Esso and Woodside in a lawsuit related to a project for extracting hydrocarbons in the Bass Strait.

King & Wood Mallesons has advised Wollemi Capital on a blended finance facility provided by not-for-profit Transition Accelerator for a carbon credit reforestation project in Western Australia.

Mineral Resources has won a bid for more documents in its fight with the Pilbara Ports Authority over the validity of a channel charge. 

The ACCC has narrowed the number of local sites in its sights as part of an assessment of Ampol's $1.1 billion acquisition of EG Australia, but the "metropolitan-wide" effects of the merger in four major cities are under the microscope.

Traditional land owners in the central Pilbara have filed a class action to force the removal of dumped asbestos waste, some 60 years after the Wittenoom asbestos mines closed and the town was struck from the map.

BP subsidiary Lightsource bp has announced the sale of five of its solar assets to Aula Energy, as part of a plan to shift its focus to hybrid projects.