Perth has an opportunity to become the best oil and gas technology centre in Asia by modelling itself on major hubs in Scotland and Norway. ...

Vietnam plans to import coal from Australia to help it meet rapidly growing energy needs that are being driven by economic growth averaging 7% over the past decade. ...

Six activists from Greenpeace have boarded a coal ship leaving Australian waters in a direct action aimed at curbing coal exports. ...

Exploration success offshore Australia has created a "robust gas portfolio" and paves the way for growth, Chevron Regional President Melody Meyer said. ...

Australia’s Woodside Petroleum has shelved plans for a $45 billion liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia, saying it would instead consider a floating L.N.G. plant after deciding the onshore development did not make economic sense. ...

Australian energy retailer Origin Energy Ltd. has agreed to buy natural gas from Beach Energy Ltd. in a deal that could be valued at more than US$1 billion, stoking concerns that an era of low gas prices for households and businesses on Australia's East Coast might be nearing an end. ...

Exxon Mobil and BHP Billiton are planning to build the world’s largest floating liquefied natural gas processing and export plant off the northwestern shore of Australia, despite growing concern about the cost competitiveness of the country’s liquefied natural gas projects. ...

With China’s slowdown, environmental concerns and the cyclical nature of the resource and energy industry, can the boom in the “wild west” endure? ...

Shale prospectors in Australia’s vast Outback are homing in on oil as the lucrative prize that is easier and cheaper to exploit than gas. Initial hopes had been to replicate a U.S. shale gas boom, but the economics of targeting oil rather than gas derived from shale formations, once considered a mere by-product, look increasingly compelling in Australia. ...

Environmental campaign group Greenpeace welcomed a new incarnation of their flagship Rainbow Warrior to Sydney, saying the vessel - whose sails cut its use of fossil fuels - will fight for the future of the Great Barrier Reef. ...