Solid Energy says that gas produced from burning coal deep underground in Waikato will help boost our energy security.

Is the attention New Zealand is getting from foreign oil prospectors accelerating?

Kabul/Houston - British Prime Minister David Cameron offered on Thursday to help deal with BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying he would take it up with US President Barack Obama, as the beleaguered company's shares rebounded from 14-year lows.

BP is done and dusted in the US, for a generation at least.

Oil giant ExxonMobil says new rules to curb drilling should be held off until the lessons from the Gulf of Mexico disaster are fully understood.

Senior BP directors want their chairman sacked over his mishandling of the Gulf catastrophe.

Louisiana's governor has blasted BP's CEO for making "idiotic" statements about the Gulf of Mexico oil-slick.

Opponents say there is no place for oil exploration in New Zealand, but the government is sticking by its deal with oil giant Petrobras.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the worst environmental catastrophe that the US has ever faced

BP says it has made progress in quelling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico but the US says the leak rate may have been five times greater than feared.

NZ recorded its first annual trade surplus in nearly eight years in the year to April, Statistics NZ says.