26 August 2026
The Coalition is signalling it will try to stop a $10bn-a-year trade deal from passing parliament, saying it’s the “worst deal ever”.
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26 August 2026
Mark Cameron is leaving Parliament after six years, kidney failure, acute heart failure, and his son's death had taken their toll.
26 August 2026
Torque finds nuggets at the Ritz while Nimy and Mount Ridley ready for global scandium and gallium leadership.
26 August 2026
Dolly Parton spent decades gifting books to millions of children. Following her death at 80, the Dollywood Foundation plans carry her mission with Imagination Library forward.
26 August 2026
…is here. In a nutshell: “In the second quarter, spot rates, as measured by the Curve, rose 32. 4% year-over-year, up from 16. 5% in the first quarter, marking the ninth consecutive inflationary reading. The index has not experienced this level of rate inflation since pandemic-era surges, with the second quarter hitting both the highest year-over-year reading and largest sequential increase since the second quarter of 2021.
26 August 2026
Energy technology company SLB has been selected as strategic reservoir partner for the Havstjerne carbon storage project in the Norwegian North Sea, providing technology and engineering services for the concept and front-end engineering and design (FEED) phases. The project is a large-scale offshore carbon storage development in Norway intended to serve industrial emitters across Europe, …
26 August 2026
Houston-headquartered energy services giant Halliburton has been awarded an integrated contract by supermajor BP for the first appraisal campaign in the deepwater Bumerangue field off Brazil. The award includes a comprehensive suite of services to fast-track the appraisal campaign for BP’s discovery, described as the company’s largest in 25 years. The contract includes an integrated …
26 August 2026
French-based engineering and technology company Technip Energies has been awarded a contract by the hydrocarbon business of Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) to provide detailed engineering services for a major ADNOC Offshore project in the United Arab Emirates. The project, recently awarded by ADNOC Offshore to a consortium led by L&T’s subsidiary LTEH …
