The GAS and ENERGY sector has made a mad rush  for growth in the Australian economy  and the main benefactors are going to be the Australian economy 

GAS AND ENERGY SECTOR POISED FOR GROWTH

With many big mergers with the likes of British gas  , and more mergers with SA energy drilling companies and  now the biggest Energy project GORGON  poised to go ahead  in WA , Australia  will be reaping the rewards for long time to come.

Both gas and electricity transmission are recording unprecedented levels of capital expenditure under the regulatory regime and those who do make these investments are out performing other sectors of the economy

WOODSIDE PETROLUEM

Our second biggest energy explorer woodside petroluem has also been expanding capacity. Woodside Petroleum Ltd, Australia’s No.2 oil and gas producer, is looking to add four extra production trains at its Pluto gas project, more than earlier planned, to tap growing gas demand in the Asian Pacific region.

Woodside had previously given plans for up to three trains at the $12 billion Pluto project, on the northwest coast of Australia, with one unit with an annual capacity of 4.3 million tonnes currently under construction. First gas production is scheduled for 2010.

ENERGY SECTOR STOCKS Poised to benefit

With the expansion  and growth of the energy sector , there will be certain companies well positioned to benefit from this growth . With the new Gorgon project  and other energy projects which are mainly offshore  and  gas drilling related  Worley parsons  (WOR), Neptune marine services (NMS) , Mermaid marine services who specialize in thie field are poised to grow with the growth in the energy sector

NMS‎ – Neptune Marine Services Ltd (ASX)‎ – stock price 0.80

http://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/companyInfo.do?by=asxCode&asxCode=NMS

Neptune Marine Services Limited (Neptune) is engaged in providing integrated engineering solutions to the international oil and gas, marine and renewable energy industries.

The Company’s suite of engineering services includes subsea and pipeline engineering; commercial diving; specialist fabrication; inspection, repair and maintenance; pipeline stabilisation and grouting; subsea consultancy; remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and vessel supply

Worleyparsons Limited – $ 28.55

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WorleyParsons Limited (WorleyParsons) provides professional services through alliance and integrated service contracts to the energy, resource and complex process industries.

The Company provides its services to industrial sectors such as oil and gas refining, petrochemicals and chemicals, minerals and metals, power and water and industrial and infrastructure.

MERMAID MARINE AUSTRALIA LIMITED (MRM) –

Stock price MRM – 2.860

Internet Address
http://www.mma.com.au

Mermaid Marine Australia Limited (MRM) is Australia’s largest marine services provider to the offshore oil and gas industry.

The company has a range of supply bases and modern offshore vessels to provide clients with marine logistics services throughout all phases of the offshore and gas development cycle. There are two main operating divisions, Vessel Operations and Supply Base Operations.

ANZ Capital 79,198 Blue Energy shares from July 22 to August 26, increasing from 113,525,219 shares (20.07%) to 113,604,417 shares (18.07%).

STOCK CODE IS : BUL ( SPECULATIVE BUY  RECOMENDED )

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BUL:AU Blue Energy Ltd
Industry: Oil Comp-Explor&Prodtn

Blue Energy Limited is involved in the exploration, evaluation and development of conventional oil and gas and coal bed methane. Blue Energy Limited (BUL, formerly Energy Investments Ltd) is a diversified energy company that undertakes the appraisal and development of Coal Bed Methane gas, Natural Gas and Conventional Oil resources within eastern Australia. The company’s acreage consist of seven tenements across five productive basins in South Australia and Queensland, totalling approximately 33,000sqkm.

STOCK DASHBOARD: August 28, 2009

Blue Energy / Closing Price: 24.0c

Market capitalisation: $150.9 million

Turnover volume: 273,639.0

Volume Index (1 is average): 0.3

Value of $1,000 invested 1 year ago: $857

Blue energy news :

Blue Energy wants an order restraining both the receiver and ANZ from calling a meeting of shareholders or voting its Blue Energy shares without the consent of the Takeovers Panel.

Assets Acreage:
Acreage include: ATP813P, ATP814P, ATP859P, ATP817P, ATP818P, ATP819P, ATP896P, ATPA656, ATPA657, ATPA658, and ATPA660. These acreages are prospective for CBM gas and natural gas/oil.

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substantial holder notice in relation to shares in Blue Energy.

Blue Energy also wants ANZ to sell down its interest in the company to below 5 per cent in the next year. Read more

Blue Energy Limited
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Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006
Phone: (08) 9225 9800
Fax: (08) 9227 8655
Email: info@chieftain.net.au
Web Site: http://www.blueenergy.com.au

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I think few records professionals would argue that their profession has largely been dominated by the compliance agenda over the past decade or so, especially here in the UK with first the Data Protection Act and then FOI. Having compliance based arguments to rely upon was great. After decades of records professionals trying to get the message out that records management was important we now had far more powerful voices (government, regulators, auditors etc) saying the same thing. Okay, so none of these Acts explicitly mandated the need for ‘good records management’ (whatever that may mean) but it was certainly clear from reading the Act and from the guidance that surrounded them that it would be very difficult to demonstrate compliance without it.

This certainly helped simplify the business cases for records management we presented to management: “we have to because the law says so”. It also helped simplify how to sell records management to users: “you have to because the law says so”. Okay, so this is a deliberate over simplification but even so is probably not a million miles wide of the mark. If the number of new records management posts within public authorities over this period is anything to go by we also shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss its effectiveness as a strategy. But we should also be aware of the limitations and risks implicit in an over reliance on any one message – particularly one dominated by legal and regulatory compliance, namely:

• The ‘big stick’ approach rarely results in the kind of positive and constructive buy-in from users that records management requires
• Managers will understandably be reluctant to spend anymore than the bear minimum to ensure compliance
• And may even decide against the bear minimum, preferring to favour instead more ‘positive’ investments – especially if the perceived risk of detection or subsequent punishment appears low.

This is not to say that compliance-based arguments have no place in our professional repertoire as clearly they do (and to a degree that will vary according to the sector and appetite for risk in question; but does serve to remind us that putting all your professional eggs in one basket is always a risky tactic, especially if the basket in question is not necessarily a particularly attractive one in the first place. This would be true in times of economic plenty but becomes even more so in periods of economic downturn where budget cuts mean much harder investment decisions and a necessarily more hard-nosed attitude to risk.

‘Impact’, ‘return on investment’ and ‘business benefit’ are now the order of the day. Organisations need to know not only that they will get ‘bang for their buck’, but also how big the bang will be and for how many bucks. This is not new territory for many records managers, but at the same time it is not necessarily where we are most comfortable – not least because so many of the benefits we have previously prided ourselves on delivering (compliance, maintenance of the ‘corporate memory’ etc) have all been largely ‘intangible’ in nature and therefore, by definition, virtually impossible to measure.

But I doubt there are few records professionals who have not also made claims at some point in their careers of the more tangible benefits to be had: reduced overheads, increased efficiency, more productive use of staff time etc and have found figures to support these claims. Indeed open any industry whitepaper or article in the professional literature and you are likely to come across all manner of statistics confirming how long senior managers waste looking for information or how much time can be saved by digitising your entire physical record collection. But how reliable are such sources? How was the data gathered? Who gathered it and why? (And, indeed, in one or two notable cases – does it even exist??).

If records management is to be able to survive and thrive in difficult economic conditions it is essential that is has confidence in the evidence base supporting the claims that it makes, but is this currently the case? JISC infoNet today launches the first deliverable from its ‘Measuring the Impact of Records Management’ project – a selective literature review which aims to look at the extent of evidence available to support claims of efficiency savings made by the records management. This literature review is the prelude to an ‘Impact Calculator’ to be released in November which will provide a framework for organisations to be able to address these apparent shortcomings for themselves and to establish their own empirical evidence demonstrating the costs and return on investment associated with whatever record or information management initiative they are undertaking. Further information on both is now available from our newly revamped Record & Information Management Portal Page, also launched today, which also provides links to all our other resources in this area.

The findings from the literature review confirm that there is both a growing appetite for and a current shortage of ‘impact evidence’ in relation to records management. Hopefully this project will help address both of these.