Energy NZ spends a morning at the MetService head quarters in Wellington, which, along with its international commercial subsidiary Metra, is a global leader in providing services to the energy industry.
The very foundations of NIWA’s global warming data are facing an unprecedented assault, legal no less than scientific.
The commissioning of Meridian Energy’s 5MW solar PV station in California this year represented a major milestone in the company’s new solar energy programme.
The 2010 New Zealand Petroleum Conference was probably the best yet held in terms of positive outlooks for the industry.
The country has good potential for further significant oil and gas discoveries, despite negative implications generated by the Government’s wider policy programme, says the head of the country’s largest listed explorer.
The health of our upstream petroleum sector is an order of magnitude better than it was five years ago, says McDouall Stuart Securities research head John Kidd.
United States investor manager William Buechler suggests New Zealand is “floating on a sea of oil”.
Although the Government has no direct ownership of oil and gas production, it can learn from Norway in producing a world-class petroleum system and reaping any economic benefits.
New Zealand’s second largest private energy company, Greymouth Petroleum, believes there are “vast undiscovered” deep gas resources in the Taranaki Basin becoming economic to develop.
Energy NZ talks to Brian Souness on the eve of his joining engineering consultancy Beca after a decade at the helm of the country’s most mature engineering cluster group.
Reality – fossilised plant matter, or coal, remains an important source of energy around the world and will continue to do so for some decades, and the reason why there is a desperate drive to find cleaner ways to convert it into energy.
In a farm paddock behind a pine shelterbelt near Huntly a whole new gas energy industry may about to be born.
The chief executive of state-owned coal miner Solid Energy, Don Elder, used the 2010 Petroleum Conference in Auckland to push the company’s vast coal deposits as the answer to the nation’s energy future.
Talk of emission controls in recent years isn’t new, writes David Burke Kennedy.
After 25 years of laissez-faire government involvement in the development of our hydrocarbon resources should the state be reviewing its involvement?
Laurice Avery and Phillipa MacDonald of Kensington Swan Lawyers look at what’s driving the emergence of the solar power energy industry.
Humour columnist Jim Hopkins dishes out awards to the energy industry.
View from the weather room
One degree of truth
Here comes the sun
Celebrating a petroleum transformation
Talking up oil and gas
The changing industry gene pool
Floating on an oil sea
Lesson from Norway
Taranaki holds more
The networker
Giving coal a better name
New gas industry in its infancy
Energy from lignite draws near
Emission control in the bag
A case for state intervention
Solar power snapshot
2010 Energetic Awards