Latest Contract Award News

Element 25 has moved its Butcherbird expansion further into delivery, combining early site works with a binding manganese offtake and a potential AU$50 million project finance package. The project still needs financial close, approvals and major construction contracts before the plan becomes an operating mine.

Service Stream has reported higher margins, earnings and dividends for FY26, while its newly mobilised Defence operations are positioned to contribute more meaningfully in FY27. The company enters the new year with $8.2 billion of work in hand, a net cash balance sheet and a positive but non-specific growth outlook.

Deep Yellow has withdrawn its target for a fourth-quarter 2026 Final Investment Decision on the Tumas uranium project, citing weak equity market conditions and constrained funding options. Construction continues, but the company has not provided a revised FID date or funding structure.

Kinetiko Energy is preparing to submit a permit that could allow limited gas sales from its Brakfontein project in early 2027, while engineering, procurement and drilling plans advance in parallel. The company has also shortlisted three candidates for its next chief executive.

Cobre has outlined a three-stage plan to lift Sierra Atacama’s copper cathode capacity from its existing configuration to 18,000 tonnes per annum, then 25,000 tonnes, with a larger 50,000-tonne case under consideration. The targets depend on refurbishment, permitting, further drilling and resource modelling.

Boom Logistics has secured an expected $18 million, 35-week contract to provide crane services for Neoen’s 179 MW Narrogin Wind Farm in Western Australia. The award gives its FY27 wind division an early revenue platform, although the announcement does not disclose margins or earnings contribution.

Finder Energy is targeting a final investment decision for its Kuda Tasi-Jahal oil project by 30 November, with approvals and engineering largely complete. The decisive hurdles now sit in financing and contract awards, including the rig, shipyard and EPCI packages.

SKS Technologies has secured another $38 million of electrical infrastructure and fit-out work at Built’s MEL2 data centre in Melbourne, taking the project’s total value to $66 million. The award lifts SKS’s current work on hand to $270 million, although the announcement does not disclose margins or delivery timing.

Finder Energy has extended the Kuda Tasi and Jahal project’s Final Investment Decision deadline to 30 November, after widening its international EPCI tender process. The company says debt financing is nearing its final stages, but the delay adds another checkpoint before its late-2027 drilling target.

Parkway Corporate Limited (ASX:PWN) delivered a sharp revenue increase in FY26 and generated positive operating cash flow, but slipped into a statutory loss and flagged significant uncertainty around its ability to continue as a going concern. Key approvals for its Queensland brine project and a new $2 million mining contract offer commercial progress, while funding remains the central test.

Avenira has pushed its first Wonarah phosphate shipment target into the first half of 2027, while its auditor warned that funding remains critical to the company’s survival. The annual report records project progress, but also a $3.34 million loss, $759,415 in year-end cash and a proposed $49 million rights issue.

Lycopodium has won an approximately A$42.9 million engineering and procurement contract for Endeavour Mining’s Assafo-Dibibango gold project in Côte d’Ivoire. Work has begun, but continued execution and full implementation remain conditional on Endeavour approving its final investment decision, expected before the end of 2026.