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Santos awards Jacobs development study contract in Cooper Basin, Australia
2013-01-11 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
US-based Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a contract from Australia-based domestic gas producer Santos, to provide the concept development study for its Cooper gas growth (CGG) satellite developments in South Australia.
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Australia: Weather watchers look to red-hot outback town to predict temperatures
2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: IT'S perhaps no accident the tiny outback town of Meekatharra is an early warning site for the Bureau of Meteorology's weather watchers as they plot what's ahead for Australia's great summer of heat. Believed to mean "place of little water" in the local indigenous language, Meekatharra has been a place of little relief when it comes to scorching temperatures. On Tuesday, the town in the mid-west region of Western Australia hit 47.1 degrees, smashing its previous maximum temperature by 1.4 degrees...
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Australia races to control fires as new heat wave looms
2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Fire crews are tackling dozens of bushfires in south-east Australia, as forecasters predict another spell of hot weather for the weekend. More than 100 separate fires are burning in New South Wales. Some 3,000 sq km of land has been razed. One of the fires is encroaching on a disused army range littered with unexploded bombs, though fire crews are confident they can tackle the blaze. Dozens of homes have been destroyed, but no-one is believed to have died. Wildfires plague Australia most...
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Trelleborg secures three contracts for LNG projects in Australia
2013-01-10 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Sweden-based Trelleborg has received three contracts to provide docking and mooring equipment and monitoring software to major LNG projects on on Curtis Island, Queensland, Australia.
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Australia: Climate confusion as bush burns
2013-01-09 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: I don't know about you, but the recent row about Met Office climate predictions and a slowdown in global warming has left me shrugging my shoulders. Yes, obviously the science is important and the issue is critical to our survival as species etc etc, but arguments about experimental models and degrees of difference seem really far removed from the concerns and interests of many people. Except perhaps in Australia right now, where temperatures are quite literally heading off the chart. The ongoing...
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