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New Gas Trunkline Construction Swings Into Action WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE June–August 2003 $3 (inc GST) New gas Trunkline Construction swings into action Iron ore New mine gets go-ahead Gold rint post approved PP 665002/00062 rint post approved Deposits among P world’s top ten WESTERN AUSTRALIAN OFFICES Department of Industry and Resources Mineral House • 100 Plain Street • EAST PERTH WA 6004 Tel: +61 8 9222 3333 • Fax: +61 8 9222 3430 www.doir.wa.gov.au Investment 168–170 St Georges Terrace • PERTH Western Australia 6000 FROM THE MINISTER Postal address: Box 7606 • Cloisters Square PERTH Western Australia 6850 estern Australia is committed to retaining its position Tel: +61 8 9327 5555 • Fax: +61 8 9222 3862 Email: [email protected] as a global supplier of mineral and petroleum INTERNATIONAL OFFICES commodities and an international destination for Europe W resources investment. Government of Western Australia European Office • 5th floor, Australia Centre The Western Australian resources sector, together with Corner of Strand and Melbourne Place Clive Brown, MLA LONDON WC2B 4LG • UNITED KINGDOM Government, is working to ensure this future. Minister for State Tel: +44 20 7240 2881 • Fax: +44 20 7240 6637 Development Email: [email protected] The State Government has responded to the need for economic, India — Mumbai social and environmental sustainability by releasing a draft State Western Australian Trade Office 93 Jolly Maker Chambers No 2 sustainability strategy. The draft strategy outlines Western 9th floor, Nariman Point • MUMBAI 400 021 INDIA Australia’s contribution to global sustainability and gives this Tel: +91 22 230 3973/74/78 • Fax: +91 22 230 3977 Email: [email protected] State a "sense of place" in the world. A part of the overall India — Chennai strategy deals with how Western Australia’s many resources can be developed in a way Western Australian Trade Office - Advisory Office that brings social and environmental benefits, as well as economic wellbeing, both 1 Doshi Regency • 876 Poonamallee High Road Kilpauk • Chennai 600 084 • INDIA locally and internationally. Tel: +91 44 640 0407 • Fax: +91 44 643 0064 E-mail: [email protected] The recent success of the Australian and International Hydrogen Energy Conference in Indonesia — Jakarta Broome has highlighted the important role Western Australia can play in the creation of Western Australia Trade Office alternative energy sources. The high attendance and international attention generated c/- Australian Trade Commission • Australian Embassy JI H R Rasuna Said Kav C15 - 16, Kuningan by the conference also reflects the global importance of the quest for sustainability. Jakarta 12940 • INDONESIA Tel: +62 21 2550 5331 • Fax: +62 21 522 7103 Western Australia is uniquely positioned to take the lead in the drive towards E-mail: [email protected] sustainability. Our rich resources endowment and international reputation for Indonesia — Surabaya innovation provide an excellent platform from which to ensure a sustainable future. Western Australian Trade Office 4th floor, World Trade Centre • Jalan Pemuda 27-31 Surabaya 60275 INDONESIA Tel: +62 31 531 9123 • Fax: +62 31 531 9118 Email: [email protected] Japan — Tokyo FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL Western Australian Government Office Australian Business Centre he role of the Department of Industry and Resources is to 28th floor, New Otani Garden Court 4-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-Ku • TOKYO 102-0094 JAPAN advance the responsible development of industry and Tel: +81 3 5214 0791 • Fax: +81 3 5214 0796 resources for the benefit of Western Australians. Our focus Email: [email protected] T is on creating jobs and prosperity through sustainable Japan — Kobe Western Australian Government Office development, broadening the State’s economic base and 6th floor, Golden Sun Building • 3-6 Nakayamate-dori protecting the community and the environment. 4-Chome Chuo-Ku • KOBE 650-0004 JAPAN Tel: +81 78 242 7705 • Fax: +81 78 242 7707 This focus is in keeping with a triple bottom line approach to Email: [email protected] Malaysia economic development, an approach that is shared across the Jim Limerick Western Australian Trade Office resources industry. Director General 4th floor, UBN Tower • 10 Jalan P Ramlee Department of Industry KUALA LUMPUR 50250 MALAYSIA In recent years the community’s view of how resource and Resources Tel: +60 3 2031 8175/6 • Fax: +60 3 2031 8177 Email: [email protected] development should take place has changed. Fortunately, the Middle East State’s resources sector is leading the way in the quest for Western Australian Trade Office • Emarat Atrium sustainability and the creation of new efficiencies. PO Box 58007 • Dubai • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Tel: +971 4 343 3226 • Fax: +971 4 343 3238 Many in the resources sector are re-working their processes to E-mail: [email protected] develop new and sustainable ways of doing business, and, in People’s Republic of China — Shanghai Western Australian Trade & Investment Promotion doing so, are often generating new market opportunities. Shanghai Representative Office • Room 2208, CITIC Square 1168 Nanjing Road West • Shanghai 200041 In this edition, Prospect examines the many aspects of sustainability and how it has been THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Tel: +86 21 5292 5899 • Fax: +86 21 5292 5889 embraced by the business community and society as a whole. Email: [email protected] Prospect highlights how sustainable development is achieving long-term prosperity for People’s Republic of China — Hangzhou Western Australian Trade & Investment Promotion Western Australia, and how the State Government and resource companies are working Hangzhou Representative Office together to achieve this common goal. Room 910 • World Trade Office Plaza Zhejiang World Trade Centre I trust you will find some interesting ideas and information from the range of issues and 15 Shuguang Road • Hangzhou 310007 PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA case studies covered in this edition of Prospect. Tel: +86 571 8795 0296 • Fax: +86 571 8795 0295 E-mail: [email protected] Taiwan WA Business Development Manager Australian Commerce & Industry Office Australian Business Centre Suite 2606, International Trade Building #333 Keelung Road Section 1 • TAIPEI 110 TAIWAN Tel: +886 2 8725 4280 • Fax: +886 2 2757 6707 Thailand WA Business Development Manager Australian Trade Commission • Australian Embassy 37 South Sathorn Road • BANGKOK 10120 • THAILAND Tel: +662 287 2680 Ext 3307 • Fax: +662 287 2589 E-mail: [email protected] in this issue Picture courtesy TiWest 2 GAS TRUNKLINE 23 PETROLEUM Pipe laying begins on a second gas trunkline for the North A string of recent oil discoveries in the northern Perth Basin West Shelf project. on Western Australia’s Mid-West coast has aroused considerable interest within the Australian petroleum industry. 4IRON ORE The go-ahead is given for the development of a new iron 24 CORE LIBRARY ore mine, at Tallering Peak, in the State’s Mid West. First The Department of Industry and Resources opens a new drill production is expected in July 2003. core library in the Perth suburb of Carlisle. 5 GOLD 24 CHINA Western Australia boasts two of the world’s top ten Western Australian exports to China have increased undeveloped gold resources. substantially over the last decade — and are set to get bigger in the years ahead. 6 AUSTRALIAN MARINE COMPLEX First jobs arrive for a major new infrastructure facility at 36 RESOURCES MAP Cockburn Sound, in support of Western Australia’s A subscription form appears on page 35 resources sector. Front cover: Pipe for the North West Prospect ISSN 1037-4590 Shelf project’s second Western Australian Prospect magazine is published quarterly by the Western Australian Government’s Department of Industry and offshore gas trunkline Resources (DoIR) and Ray Burns Media. being loaded aboard the Editorial management: John Terrell, DoIR Promotions & Marketing Branch. Tel: (08) 9327 5555 • Fax: (08) 9327 5500. lay-barge Semac 1 prior to Advertising management: Ray Burns Media, PO Box 1230, South Perth Westerm Australia 6951 Tel: (08) 9474 3288 • Mobile: 0408 474 328 • Email: [email protected] welding and despatch to Prospect has been compiled in good faith by the Department of Industry and Resources from information and data gathered in the the seafloor. course of the magazine’s production. Opinions expressed in Prospect are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Department of Industry and Resources. No person or organisation should act on the basis of any matter contained in this publication without considering, and if necessary taking, Department of appropriate professional advice from other sources. The Department of Industry and Industry and Resources Resources, its employees and contracted personnel undertake no responsibility to any person or organisation in respect of this publication. www.doir.wa.gov.au ABN: 69 410 335 356 Prospect June–August 2003 1 New gas trunkline will be firmly secured to seabed Top weight: Resembling the shape of horse saddles, these 32-tonne concrete gravity anchors will be used to keep the second trunkline for the North West Shelf project firmly in place on the seabed off Dampier. ome of the heaviest concrete ever to be for most of its length and be weighed down The design is similar to that used for the batched in Western Australia will soon using gravity anchors and rock armour in harsh conditions of the North Sea. Sfind a new home on the seabed off the other places. During the design process, consideration State’s northwest coast. Resembling horse saddles, the tapered was given to trawlers and other fishing vessels Comprising a mixture of Hamersley iron anchors have a 45 degree face and a 70 degree that may come in contact with the anchors in ore, Burrup Peninsula granophyre (similar to slope on the sides.
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