In hydro comparisons, Mokihinui will be to the West Coast what Wairau is to Marlborough. Hugh de Lacy looks at the challenges Meridian faces with its hydro project in a very under-powered region of the country.
Steve Lowe visits the Chatham Islands to review the community’s generation and discovered the country’s highest electricity bills and a desperate bid to improve security of supply and keep residents from leaving.
For the financial year ended June 30, 2009, New Zealand Oil and Gas recorded a net profit after tax of $53.2 million from total operating revenue of $138.7 million.
Potential big gas discoveries in Taranaki could give the region’s idle methanol plants a new lease of life.
After a surge of publicity last year around Solid Energy’s test well in the Waikato, coal seam gas exploration fell off the front pages. Now L&M Petroleum has picked up the pace with exciting news in Southland.
The Electricity Technical Advisory Group Ministry of Economic Development received 128 submissions from energy companies on its electricity review discussion paper called ‘Improving Electricity Market Performance’ – the first Government review of the market since 2001. Here’s a small taste of what some of those submissions said.
Transpower needs business support for its plans to upgrade the national electricity grid over the next five or six years.
We are a country obsessed with its overseas image. As we declare ourselves a leader on ‘climate change’, Alan Titchall recounts the number of times we have rushed to the frontline in world conflicts to do more than our fair share.
A group of the country’s most powerful business groups have pleaded with the Government to take a cautionary approach to committing the country to any emission scheme we can’t afford. By Greenhouse Policy Coalition executive director Catherine Beard.
The use of concrete in deep-sea offshore energy projects is becoming more common as explorers are forced into harsher ocean environments.
Since the setting up of the Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER), closer economic relations have been a key focus for both governments, which has also opened new opportunities for our oil and gas sector.
The Government is finally in touch with the energy and resources sector, says John Pfahlert, the executive officer of the Petroleum Exploration and Production Association.
Someone has to give a dam
Between a rock and a dark place
NZOG war chest for exploration
A train in want of gas
L&M ups its CSG stakes
Advice from within
Grid upgrade seeks support
Unto the breach once more
ETS - Don't rush in
Concrete paves the way at sea
Hands across the Tasman
Finally in touch