Wellington, Feb 22 NZPA - The New Zealand sharemarket opened the week on a positive note today. The benchmark NZX50 index was up 9.182 points, or 0.3 percent, to 3116.27 in the opening 15 minutes today with a handful of stocks improving.

By Kent Atkinson of NZPA Wellington, Feb 11 NZPA - Fonterra farmers critical of regulations which compel them to supply 4 percent of the cooperative's raw milk to processing rivals at cost price say they want higher prices to be charged from June 1.

Wellington, Jan 29 NZPA - New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) says commissioning of its Kupe oil field off the coast of Taranaki is progressing well and it hopes to have permanent production up and running by March.

Wellington, Jan 15 NZPA - The first shipment of light crude oil from the Kupe project is due to leave Port Taranaki next week.

Wellington, Nov 24 NZPA - Canterbury dairy company Synlait Milk Ltd has admitted it can't get enough support from investors for its planned $150 million float.

Wellington, July 15 NZPA - Two container shipping services between New Zealand and North Asia are being combined and the shipping lines concerned say it is because of a deteriorating market situation.

Wellington, June 12 NZPA - The first raw gas from the Kupe field, off the south Taranaki coast, is expected to be brought ashore in the fourth quarter of this calendar year.

Wellington, March 20 NZPA - New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) and its joint venture partners from the successful Tui oil fields development have been awarded a new exploration permit in the offshore Taranaki Basin.

Wellington, Jan 8 NZPA - The 20 millionth barrel of oil has been produced from the Tui area oilfields in offshore Taranaki. And for the first time a shipment of Tui oil is to be sent to the Marsden Pt refinery, near Whangarei, to be refined in this country .

Wellington, June 20 NZPA - Reserves in the offshore Taranaki Tui oilfield have been lifted again, with publicly-listed New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) putting the gross value of its share of the increase at around $70 million.