Angela Macdonald-Smith writes on energy specialising in gas, oil, electricity. Based in our Sydney newsroom, Angela is chief of staff for resources and energy.
Origin Energy has revealed data that suggests it could be sitting on a gas resource in the Northern Territory several times the size of the North West Shelf, able to keep the energy-short eastern states market well supplied or feed LNG export plants in Darwin.
Central Petroleum has fended off a spirited attempt to spill the board, securing the ongoing leadership of chief executive Richard Cottee.
Origin Energy has turned to Silicon Valley to beef up the cutting-edge skills and technology it needs to prosper in the rapidly changing energy sector.
Explorers sitting on vast quantities of undeveloped gas in the Northern Territory are cautiously optimistic that the territory may relax its moratorium on fracking after the release of an interim report on the controversial technology.
An sharp jump in export earnings from resources and commodities in 2016-17 is set to be abruptly stopped in its tracks.
The normally boring June quarter for electricity markets has been turned on its head with wholesale prices breaking records to an extent tha...
Australia's "crazy high" power prices should play into the hands of home battery provider Sonnen, which will cut retailers out of the equati...
The Esso-BHP Billiton joint venture is understood to have received keen interest in natural gas they have put up for sale from the Bass Stra...
Queensland has fast become the east coast's mainstay for electricity after the closure of the Hazelwood generator in March.
The Northern Territory government will retain a 20 per cent interest in Darwin port, keeping the stake in public hands rather than selling i...
Gas buyers expect the government to trigger new powers to limit exports at the earliest opportunity to bring an end to the "disastrous" situ...
A move by Japan to outlaw restrictions on destinations in long-term LNG sales contracts has shifted the balance of power in the oversupplied...
For an operator in the typically mundane utilities space, AGL Energy has been getting investors' hearts racing, but the market is split on w...
Gas production from the south-eastern states' most significant source is slowly ramping back up to capacity after a disruption to production...
Shell has marked a milestone in its ground-breaking Prelude floating LNG project, but it's not all good news for the project.
Gas production from the south-eastern states' most significant source remains curtailed after a Bass Strait platform was hit by an electrica...
Woodside Petroleum has scored a coup in bringing giant LNG buyer Korea Gas Corporation into its Port Arthur LNG export project planned with ...
A destructive wave of energy bill hikes is poised to sweep across businesses and households from July 1.
Central Petroleum shareholders have blocked the $87 million takeover deal by Macquarie Group, leaving the cash-strapped gas explorer facing ...
NSW energy minister Don Harwin has rejected state intervention in the sector that has been seen in South Australia, calling for "lean" measu...
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