Pilbara Ports said it had cleared vessels and shut down operations at major minerals export centers Port Hedland and Port Dampier as well as the oil and gas shipping port of Varanus Island.

Dampier Port, which is used by Rio Tinto, and the Port of Varanus Island, which is used as a processing hub for oil and other fuel, would close on Thursday afternoon, Pilbara Ports said.

WA’s energy regulator has commenced legal proceedings against industry heavyweight Santos over the petroleum spill at its Varanus Island gas plant off the Pilbara coast. “The department will continue ...

This metal coating may reinforce each tooth, helping Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) safely tear through the flesh of deer or water buffalo. Iron teeth aren’t unique to these reptiles ...

“We believe it to be an Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) but are unable to definitively confirm identification based on this video,” FWC said in a statement. “Monitor lizards are ...

Halophila beccarii and Halophila nipponica. This was not the case in 2015 when she and her team of researchers from UPM started their research into the seagrass bed and the number of marine life ...

They comprise three Sunda pangolins (manis javanica), one northern pig-tailed macaque (jacaca leonina), one pygmy slow loris (jycticebus pygmaeus), one reticulated python (python reticulatus), and one ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Just days after a gas leak forced the closure of a Santos platform off the West Australian coast, the state’s safety regulator ...

The pipeline carries gas from the field to the Varanus Island onshore gas processing facilities, and from there gas is distributed to the domestic market. Santos said it has notified all relevant ...

Energy minister Bill Johnston says a gas leak at a pipeline off the coast of WA’s Pilbara region, which has reduced output at the Varanus Island processing facility, will not impact the state ...

Santos Ltd. has shut down John Brookes gas field offshore Western Australia following detection of a gas leak from a subsea flange on the main 50 km trunkline to the Varanus Island gas treatment ...