One-time environmental activist turned face of the Colorado oil and gas industry in says the road to winning the public over is a long and "boring" one.

Oil bobbing around the US$50 mark was the "the elephant in the room" at the Advantage New Zealand Petroleum Summit but veteran oil man Sean P Flanagan says he's seen it all before.

Fliway Group shares slipped below their $1.20 offer price yesterday after the freight and logistics operator made its sharemarket debut in the first NZX listing of the year.

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to buy BG Group for about 47 billion ($92.4 billion) in cash and shares - the oil and gas industry's biggest deal in at least a decade.

Is "parity" worth a party? As our dollar approached equal value with Australia's on Monday, it was not hard to find party poopers.

Dulux took a $15.2m provision to settle its tax dispute with the IRD over subsidiary Alesco NZ's use of optional convertible notes.

The New Zealand dollar is continuing its record-breaking run against the Australian dollar in recent weeks and was last night closing in on parity.

The New Zealand dollar has moved another step closer to parity with the Australian dollar this morning hitting another post float high of 99.65c in New York trading.

Fonterra's half-year result was a disappointment for farmers and investors in the co-operative's listed shareholders' fund.

New Zealand's next energy game changer could be the "super resource" of gas hydrates, says Shell New Zealand chairman Rob Jager.

Invivo Wines has become the first company in New Zealand to raise the maximum amount allowed through an equity crowdfunding campaign.

Synlait Milk's share price has tumbled after the Canterbury-based specialised milk powder manufacturer reported a $6.4 million net loss for the six months to January.

A publicly-owned entity must pay Mobil almost $1m in courts costs for its failed attempt to get the oil company to pay for the clean-up of Auckland's tank farm.

NZX dairy futures drop sharply in response to co-op’s plan to put more product up for auction.

Panasonic's shares jumped after the company forecast profit will climb 23 per cent next fiscal year to the highest since 2008 on demand for housing and car information and entertainment systems.

Forrest raised alarm bells for the watchdog after telling a business dinner in Shanghai that he would be happy to cap Fortescue's iron ore production at 180 million tonnes a year.

Pumpkin Patch shares came off the boil yesterday, ending a three-day rally that had been prompted by the struggling retailer's flagging of the potential for a takeover.

A think tank report into unlocking planning obstacles faced by miners says central government needs to fund local councils for handling complex resource applications.

Shares in children’s clothing retailer soar after ‘third parties’ show an interest.

Petromac, has evolved a disruptive technology that lets oil and gas companies get better data from wireline logging of oil wells.

Auckland-based Salt Funds Management has been appointed as the external manager of AMP Capital's $690 million active New Zealand equities portfolios.

Fast-growing wine company Invivo Wines raised more than $1 million in the space of a few hours after its equity crowdfunding campaign opened yesterday.

A recovery in oil prices which began in February is not justified by fundamentals as there remains a supply glut in the market, oil cartel Opec says in its monthly report.

Could 2015 go down in history as the year of the boring sharemarket listings?