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In June this year, the group Energy and Mines out of Toronto Canada held the Mines and Energy Conference in Perth, Western Australia. In light of the massive growth in Renewable energy in Australia generally, and the renewed surge in mining activity in this state, the conference was very timely, and drew together numbers...
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Earlier this year, the largest floating object ever built, the Shell owned PRELUDE floating LNG platform (technically not a ship as it does not propel itself), was towed by three large tugs from the Samsung Heavy Industries' Goeje Shipyard in South Korea, to it's operational resting site, 475 km north north east of...
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Much has been said and written in recent years about the need to dispense with Fossil fuels - particularly coal and oil - and move our power generation to the Renewable Energy products such as wind and solar. While most people agree we need to take better care of our environment, the issues of conversation to...
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The current LNG industry worldwide has for most of it's relatively short life, been developed around the concept of build huge gas extraction systems to draw gas from the underground or undersea reserves, and use giant high pressure " freezers " .... ..to cool the gas to - 170 degrees Celcius and then ship...
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Many years ago the author Lewis Carroll penned a poem as part of his book "Alice through the Looking Glass" and part of it went like this.... "..the time has come the Walrus said, to speak of many things - of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax- of cabbages and kings.." You may...
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Here at Business Maps Australia, part of our work involves a considerable amount of research to aquire data for the construction of different maps and packages for clients across a wide range of industries. Our sources include a wealth of company websites, key industry online forums, and high quality news outlets such as the Australian...
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A few days ago I posted an article titled Clean Energy and Our Shipping industry, outlining some of the large challenges facing the Global shipping industry as it attempts to shift into a cleaner fuel consumption status. I also stated that we would be publishing a regular stream of articles detailing current happenings and developments as...
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From the very beginning Australia has had a vital and ongoing connection with the sea. It brought the first colonists here in 1788; carried our first exports of wool back to Mother England.. and continues to this day bringing new " colonists" looking for a better life. As a modern country trading in the twenty first century, we...
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I have made the following comment many times in this forum; that we cannot transition too rapidly from our current fossil fuel power base to a clean energy set up, because there are a multitude of social and economic issues to be handled, and preferably without " blowing up the world " in one go. Well,...
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The simple task of changing a light bulb in my office last week (followed by two more in quick succession thanks to cheap bulbs) reminded me of some material I read recently concerning the task of creating Light ... ...in our modern environment. It's a simple, almost automatic thing for us, but not so...
