Oil and Gas

Leading energy modellers forecast temperature rises will be kept within 2C of pre-industrial levels thanks to rapidly advancing clean technologies.

After NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles this week divested 169 shares in a gas company, the public must be wondering: should NT Parliament follow Canberra in barring politicians from having a portfolio?

Leaders in charge of Australia's response to climate change have told an energy summit the country can have "an even bigger impact" by helping the rest of the world decarbonise, as school students around the country fronted up for climate rallies.

Natasha Fyles says she has not done anything wrong, as her ownership of 169 shares in gas company Woodside attracted scrutiny from a federal senator earlier this week.

Chief Minister Natasha Fyles doubles down on her assertion that she has no conflict of interest in owning Woodside shares, despite the gas giant's links to projects in the Northern Territory.

A traditional owner has succeeded in his bid to stop energy giant Santos from starting work on an underwater pipeline near the Tiwi Islands — but work on another section has been allowed to resume.

Natasha Fyles defends her ownership of shares in Woodside, saying she has properly declared the holdings each year and that she has acted in line with financial disclosure rules.

Gas company Santos can now push ahead with plans for world's largest carbon capture and storage project. 

Raelene Cooper has again challenged Woodside's consultation with traditional owners as the mining giant launches a fresh application for seismic testing in the Pilbara.

More than 800 large companies paid no tax in 2021-22, an Australian Taxation Office (ATO) report reveals. Here's the full ATO list.

The gap between climate rhetoric and fossil fuel use is growing, according to a UN report that warns the world's carbon budget has almost been used up.

Drones have been used to deliver pizzas, snap photographs and fight crime. Now, new approvals could see them being used to a greater degree in Australia's lucrative mining industry.

As the next UN climate conference COP-28 draws closer, Germany's special envoy for climate diplomacy, Jennifer Morgan, is in Australia for meetings with key climate players.

Three dead dolphins turn up in an oil spill. The energy company says it's got nothing to do with it, but Alex, an insider, sets out to prove it wrong. Now, an ABC investigation has revealed mistakes were made.

An emergency injunction granted to a Tiwi Islands traditional owner by the Federal Court has halted construction of the project's underwater gas export pipeline for several weeks.

Energy analysts grow increasingly nervous about unrest in the Middle East with the World Bank warning that a spillover of hostilities in the region could send oil prices to record highs.

Beetaloo Basin's greenhouse gas emissions could be 45 per cent more than estimates in a crucial CSIRO report, which a climate institute has labelled "systemically biased".

Satellite data shows the massive explosion of rooftop solar from above, but the rest of Australia's energy transition is falling behind. Search for your suburb's rooftop solar count.

A major assessment of cultural heritage values by Santos, which is planning to build an underwater pipeline through Tiwi sea country, has ignored the concerns of traditional owners, the land council says.

In the murky realm of oil trading, the rise of the Russia-India trade has been astonishing. Involving two of the world's most powerful businessmen, it has potential implications for Australia's security.

Air gun testing critical to Western Australia's offshore oil, gas and energy ambitions is "dazing" the state's valuable western rock lobsters, a new study finds.

Farmers fighting Santos's Hunter Gas Pipeline suddenly noticed survey pegs along the route. A title search shows the surveyed land is now owned by the directors of the company negotiating land access for Santos.

As stone artefacts are pulled from waters around Australia, concerns are growing that "tens of thousands" of possible sites of archaeological significance are not being adequately protected. The latest concern is in the Top End, where a gas company is pushing ahead with a pipeline.

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock says the central bank "will not hesitate" to increase the cash rate over fears inflation could take longer to return to target than its current "late 2025" forecast.

Almost half of the world's power will come from "clean" technologies such as wind, solar and nuclear by 2030, but the International Energy Agency says it "may not be enough" to limit global warming.