Energy & Natural Resources

A shareholder class action against KPMG and ex-Arrium directors says the company's accounts were infected by "chronic and systemic overoptimism", with the former operator of Whyalla Steelworks portraying as viable a business that was impaired up to $2.8 billion.

Monadelphous Group subsidiary Kerman has secured a $165 million Rio Tinto contract for the design and construction of facilities at the mining giant's Brockman Syncline 1 project in the Pilbara.

Clyde & Co has recruited a disputes partner with extensive experience in complex litigation in the infrastructure and energy and resources sectors.

The High Court has agreed on an early November hearing date in a dispute over Bass Strait hydrocarbon royalties, despite a plea to the heavens by counsel for Esso and Woodside.

Testing lab ALS must hand over almost all of a McGrathNicol report into allegedly exaggerated coal testing results, after a judge found last year the company had waived privileged over parts of the report by referring to its findings in an ASX statement.

The information of 900,000 current and former Origin Energy customers was accessed during a recent cyberattack, the company has revealed.

Renewable energy company Neoen has won two 15-year contracts in South Australia’s first energy reliability tender and will double the size of its Goyder Battery at its flagship energy hub to fulfill the mandate.

The NSW Crime Commission is seeking to freeze more assets of convicted criminal and former state Labor politician Eddie Obeid, after securing over $30 million in property in March. 

Australian renewables company Goldwind has taken engineer Zenviron to court, alleging it's on the hook for $2.6 million in road rectification payments related to the construction of the Moorabool wind farm in Victoria.

The Albanese government is weighing the development of a new large-scale oil refinery in Western Australia amid the Middle East conflict, the first new refinery since the 1960s.