Oil importer, refiner and marketer Caltex has benefited from the continued swing towards premium fuel purchases, which has helped offset a decline in refiner margins and adverse currency swings over the past 12 months.
There is no excuse for any employer to underpay or exploit their employees.
Caltex Australia has been fined $400,000 and ordered to pay court costs for an uncontrolled fuel discharge at its Port Botany terminal.
BlueScope has warned Australia faces heavy job losses unless there is an overhaul of the country's energy policy.
After years of failed promises, Victoria is on the cusp of getting its first large-scale solar power stations.
Rising oil prices and cost cutting helped limit the rising tide of red ink at Santos, following heavy write-offs
OPEC could extend its oil output pact with non-members or cut deeper if global inventories fail to drop as intended.
The electricity market operator should be given additional power so it can intervene directly in the energy market, the head of Origin Energy has said.
Labor's climate change spokesman Mark Butler has dismissed as "rubbish" widely circulating claims that Federal ALP had dropped its goal of achieving half of the nation's electricity will be supplied by renewable sources by 2030.
South 32, the spin-out of orphan assets from BHP Billiton, has benefited handsomely from the surge in metal prices in the latter part of 2016, but has opted to hang on to a large chunk of its cash.
The heavy write-down of assets disclosed earlier in the week pushed Origin Energy's earnings into the red, with the improved performance of its energy utility business overwhelmed by asset valuation adjustments.
The fall in the oil price has prompted Origin Energy to slash $1.9 billion off the value of its assets, primarily for its gas export project in Queensland.
Unusually warm sea temperatures and the prospect for more to come have reef scientists worried that the Great Barrier Reef may experience another major coral bleaching event. And Sydney is also under threat.
The noisy parliamentary battle over renewable energy rages on
The booming market for home storage could be thrown into disarray if proposed safety guidelines force owners to move their battery units outside.
Consumers are voters and they won't forget who is to blame if there's a meltdown in our nation's energy supplies.
Tomago Aluminium, Australia's largest smelter and the state's largest electricity user, has been ordered to dramatically reduce power consumption for a second day as a record heatwave strains NSW's power sector.
Pointing our solar panels in the wrong direction is only one quirk in our strained energy system.
Oil rose on a report that OPEC has achieved a record 90 per cent initial compliance with a production cut accord.
Rio Tinto has appointed three former senior managers from the energy industry to its board as non-executive directors, including Shell's departing CFO Simon Henry.
Authorities are pleading for public help to avoid blackouts and limit fire risks as a record-breaking heatwave sets in across eastern Australia.
Sydney has sweltered through another record-breaking day in summer of peak heat, with hospitals remaining on alert, power cuts hitting businesses and sports competitions scrambling to cancel weekend events.
NSW faces biggest test of the summer, with soaring temperatures set to bring "catastrophic" fire conditions to some areas.
Victoria and NSW have been warned they could follow South Australia in being hit by electricity blackouts in years ahead unless Canberra comes up with a bipartisan national plan to deal with energy and climate change.
A little over a decade after it lost hundreds of millions of dollars on an ill-judged foray into New Zealand, energy utility AGL is again planning to expand abroad, although it is tight lipped on details.
NSW faces potential power shortages during the coming heatwave, prompting the electricity market operator to demand additional supply.
Rising wholesale power prices have helped energy utility AGL lift earnings and dividends
Oil advanced after government data showed that US gasoline supplies unexpectedly fell.
Oil dropped to the lowest in more than two weeks amid estimates that US crude and gasoline inventories continue to climb.
Investors are betting big that OPEC's cuts are real.
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