The agency bumped up the oil giant's rating one notch, citing a strong performance despite oil price volatility and greater fiscal clarity following its $26.5 billion settlement of the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.
The electricity market is bracing for significant change, with the risk that surging prices will force a number of smaller retailers to quit the market.
With a dizzying array of positions, how's anyone supposed to invest?
Well, it's not as though we couldn't see this one coming. Donald Trump was promising to pull the US out of the Paris Accord on climate change long before he took office.
Australians overwhelmingly want governments to favour renewable energy - even if it costs more, Lowy Institute poll finds.
On top of stricter emission controls and a move toward electric vehicles, Asia's diesel traders now have to worry about sea cucumbers off China's coast.
AGL Energy will spend $295 million on a 210 megawatt gas-fired power station alongside its 50-year-old Torrens Island plant in South Australia.
Sometimes, the lost desert wanderer does stumble into an oasis, replete with the proverbial date palms and life-saving waters.
The gas price may have doubled but it will take time for this to translate into higher gas supplies.
President Donald Trump just made good on his campaign vow to leave the Paris climate accord. Now, the hard part: making coal great again.
Some of the key point you need to know about Paris and a withdrawal of the US by President Trump
The climate genie, already out of the bottle, just got that bit harder to put back in.
Declining competition in gas markets, which is leaving consumers exposed to surging wholesale prices
Getting the green bank to invest in carbon reduction measures is not entirely mad.
The acceleration of electric vehicles could be driving Big Oil towards a crash.
Prospects for the controversial Adani coal mine have dimmed further with the Queensland government saying it wants no role in any federal loan to support the project.
If you can look past the fanfare, OPEC's weaknesses are glaring.
Production cuts were formally extended, though there appear to be more downside risks for the price of oil.
Rye Park wind farm near Boorowa has been approved, but with 17 fewer turbines.
On a small island off the southern coast of Singapore, a French energy company is experimenting with what it hopes will be the future of renewable power storage.
Households facing 'price spike' as industry regulator loses key legal case.
The White House plans to sell half of the nation's emergency oil stockpile and entire backup gasoline supply to pare debt.
BHP has hired Barclays to sell its US Fayetteville shale gas assets as the miner seeks to fend off activist funds.
Low gas prices has Woodside looking to cheap gasfield expansion options.
Oil prices rose to their highest levels in more than a month, on bets that top exporters would agree to extend supply curbs.
The Berejiklian government will issue warnings of potential threats to electricity supplies from this summer after its review of February's heatwave found the power sector to be vulnerable.
The government has quietly axed environmental conditions aimed at protecting turtle species set to be affected by Adani's proposed $3 billion coal terminal expansion.
Action needs to be taken now to avoid power blackouts this summer, government told
Queensland Investment Corp is seeking close to $1 billion in damages over claimed misrepresentations by power utility EnergyAustralia with the sale of the Iona underground gas facility
Businesses and households to be offered cash to use less electricity at peak times next summer.
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