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Gas pipelines in urgent review of defences after Colonial hack
May 14, 2021 – 2.41pm
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Gas pipeline owners in Australia are intently scrutinising the devastating ransomware attack that brought the United States’ biggest pipelines for petrol and diesel to a near-week-long standstill, with the intention of beefing up their already extensive cyber-security precautions and improving “plan B”-type fall-back measures.
Pipeline industry sources say operators already have extensive back-up measures and redundancies in place to try to ensure supply is maintained in the event of a cyber-attack, given the risk to critical infrastructure from malicious actors has been evident for many years.
Central Petroleum Limited (ASX:CTP) Range Pilot Update - Coal Thickness & Permeability Confirmed
Range Pilot Update - Coal Thickness & Permeability ConfirmedBrisbane, May 13, 2021 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Central Petroleum Limited (
OTCMKTS:CNPTF) advises that all three wells comprising the Range Pilot Programme have been drilled successfully and surface equipment will now be installed prior to the installation of down-hole pumps.
The three Range pilot wells, Range-6, Range-7 and Range-8 were drilled to depths of between 675m and 685m and confirmed net coal of between 26m and 28m across the three coal seams of Walloon Coal Measures. Permeability testing of the Range-6 well confirmed that the coals have permeability levels consistent with the strong results from the four exploration wells drilled across ATP 2031 in mid-2019.
Reformed iron ore miners tipped to pay $65b dividend
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Rio Tinto and BHP are tipped to pass 95 per cent of the iron ore boom back to shareholders through dividends, as Anglo American and Hong Kongâs Cheung Kong became the lastest multinationals to flirt with the idea of building a new iron ore province in Australiaâs mid-west.
Iron ore prices have surged 20 per cent above the 2011 record over the past fortnight and are dragging Australiaâs biggest exporter, Rio, into a net cash position just 13 years after it was crippled with debt on the back of the disastrous $US38 billion Alcan acquisition.