• Potash

How the Rich Invest: Gina Rinehart

The $400 million fertiliser investment mining billionaire Gina Rinehart made last year is already paying off.

• Updated May 11, 2017
• John Stensholt

• Opinion
• Gas

Victoria wipes away liability for drilling bans

In banning onshore gas exploration, the Victorian government has made a retrograde and unscientific decision.

• Updated Nov 23, 2016
• Matthew Stevens

• Iron ore

How the Rich Invest: Gina Rinehart's small miners still waiting for payday

Gina Rinehart has had mixed success investing in listed media and mining stocks

• Updated Oct 12, 2016
• John Stensholt

• Opinion
• Opinion

Mongolia calls IMF but WA still Rio Tinto's risk No.1

Mongolia's request for financial rescue has done nothing to alter the debt-burdened mining frontier's standing on the Rio Tinto rankings of sovereign risk.

• Updated Oct 3, 2016
• Matthew Stevens

• Opinion
• Opinion

Lakes Oil must seek legal remedy for Victoria's drilling bans

Lakes Oil's past and future have been trashed by Victoria's rejection of conventional petroleum drilling technologies.

• Updated Aug 31, 2016
• Matthew Stevens

Victoria not ready to lift gas moratorium, says Auditor-General

Victoria is not equipped to lift the moratorium on unconventional gas, a report from the state's financial watchdog has found.

• Updated Aug 19, 2015
• Lucille Keen

Victorian coal-seam gas inquiry starts

The controversial moratorium on Victoria’s coal seam gas industry will remain in place at least until mid 2016 despite those in the industry claiming the delay is neglectful.

• Jan 28, 2015
• Lucille Keen

Ban on onshore exploration obstacle to cheaper gas

Victoria’s moratorium on onshore gas exploration is standing in the way of affordable gas that could help struggling manufacturers keep more jobs in Australia, developers and customers said.

• Nov 27, 2014
• Ben Potter

Dow Chemical hits out at Victoria, NSW politicians for gas bans

The local chief of one of the world’s largest chemical companies has criticised the Victorian and NSW governments for standing in the way of gas supplies needed to avert a supply squeeze while they wait to get elections out of the way.

• Updated Sep 18, 2014
• Ben Potter and Lucille Keen

Opposition to energy projects could push up bills

Delays to energy projects caused by opposition from farmers and activists are driving up costs and could push energy bills higher, energy experts say.

• Updated Jun 2, 2014
• Ben Potter

Industry furious at Victorian Liberals for gas ban extension

The Victorian government has expanded a moratorium on coal seam gas exploration to all onshore gas projects, shifting the goal posts on the gas industry for a second time in two years.

• Updated May 28, 2014
• Ben Potter

• Construction

Israel offers wealth of potential for services sector

Origin Energy chairman Kevin McCann, who is heading an Australian oil and gas mission to Israel, sees a wealth of opportunities in the region for Australian oil and gas services providers.

• Updated Jun 13, 2013
• Angela Macdonald-Smith

MinRes’s Wade sees no rift despite Rinehart sale

Mineral Resources chairman Peter Wade believes Gina Rinehart’s decision to sell out of the mining services company was purely commercial and insists there is no rift between the two parties.

• Updated Jan 30, 2013
• Luke Forrestal

Lakes slumps after Victoria bans fracking

Exploration minnow Lakes Oil has born the brunt of Victoria’s sudden ban on hydraulic fracturing, losing as much as half of its value after the shares returned from a trading halt.

• Updated Aug 28, 2012
• Angela Macdonald-Smith

• Gas

Gas explorers blast Victoria’s fracking ban

Natural gas explorers in Victoria have slammed a sudden moratorium on the controversial hydraulic fracturing process, saying it will set back a bid to stop prices doubling in the eastern states.

• Updated Aug 26, 2012
• Angela Macdonald-Smith | Mathew Dunckley