Germany tightens rules over fracking
Germany has rejected genetically modified crops, nuclear power and magnetic levitation trains. Now, the country is adding fracking to the list of innovations it's wary of.
Germany has rejected genetically modified crops, nuclear power and magnetic levitation trains. Now, the country is adding fracking to the list of innovations it's wary of.
Plans by Norwegian oil giant Statoil to explore off the Northland coast are moving closer with the visit of a top executive to the area this week.
The oil and gas industry is suddenly brimming with upstart millennials after decades of failing to attract and retain new entrants.
China has signed a long-awaited deal for Russian natural gas, giving China a new energy source and Russia a diplomatic boost.
China is stockpiling oil for its strategic petroleum reserve at a record pace, intervening on a scale large enough to send a powerful pulse through the world crude market.
A hopelessly one-sided conflict will be renewed in Ruakaka, Northland, on Thursday.
Cheniere Energy's Charif Souki emerged as the highest paid US executive in 2013, receiving $142 million.
Last week, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell was visiting Putin's residence, saying, "We are very keen to grow our position in the Russian Federation."
Z Energy's boss says petrol consumption is falling in relation to increasing availability of broadband, which means people aren't popping in their cars for visits anymore.
The fog was just beginning to lift on the Houston Ship Channel on March 22 as a bulk carrier and a fuel barge found themselves on a crash course.
A power company is offering the chance to pay all household costs in one bill - but consumer groups warn the convenience may come at a cost.
In 1945 Jan Arps published a formula, which has become one of the most widely used measures, to predict how much crude oil a well will produce.
The government has opened eight new areas for oil and gas exploration in its 2014 Block Offer, unveiled by Energy Minister Simon Bridges.
An attempt to have the Court of Appeal order the liquidation of Greymouth Petroleum was described by one of the judges hearing the appeal as a tactic to "extort."
A long-running and acrimonious dispute between two rich-lister shareholders of Greymouth Petroleum and their former colleague at the oil and gas company is heading back to court.
Oil company Anadarko won't confirm claims its exploration off the Otago coast has been unsuccessful.
Campaigners are out to hit the fossil fuel industry where it hurts, by making it an unacceptable place to invest. Peter Huck reports
In the socialist state of Venezuela that is home to the world's largest oil and gas reserves, petrol is cheaper than water. But not for much longer.
United States oil company Anadarko says its first New Zealand deep sea exploration well failed to find commercial quantities of oil or natural gas.
American oil company Anadarko says its maiden New Zealand deep sea exploration well failed to find commercial quantities of oil or natural gas.
West Texas Intermediate sustained its biggest weekly gain of the year as freezing temperatures in the US boosted demand for heating oil.
Labour's Shane Jones has used the rat-cunning skills that got him to the top of Maori fishing politics to manoeuvre his boss, David Cunliffe, into adopting new realism on offshore oil and gas exploration.
Protesters against deep sea oil exploration attached a banner to an Anadarko exploratory vessel in Wellington this morning.
Labour is looking at the Norwegian model for regulating the oil and gas industry, including stronger environmental safeguards and steeper taxes.
Big international oil and gas recruitment company Air Energi is moving into New Zealand in what is being described as a vote of confidence in the sector here.