The imprudence over which Van Jones lost his job should not divert attention from the conviction that had propelled him into the administration of US President Barack Obama.
A four-session natural gas rally from a 7-year low culminated with a 15% jump past $3/MMbtu Sept. 10—the largest 1-day gain in almost 5 years in the New York market.
Among the myriad falsehoods that attach themselves to oil and gas in politics, one of the most persistent is also one that should be easy to see through.
Oil & Gas Journal's survey of the 100 leading oil and gas producers based outside the US shows that most of these firms posted improved financial results from a year earlier.
US President Barack Obama's administration is studying whether to propose repeals of tax breaks for other industries besides oil and gas, a US Department of the Treasury official told a US Senate subcommittee on Sept. 10.
American Petroleum Institute Pres. Jack N. Gerard expressed surprise at an Obama administration official's apparent attempt on Sept. 10 to justify proposals to repeal oil and gas tax incentives by saying that it is looking at other industries' tax breaks too.
Responding to US House Natural Resources Committee Republican complaints that the Outer Continental Shelf bill he cosponsored with US Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) didn't go far enough, Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Ha.) said bipartisan compromises would be more productive than extreme positions.
US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee members appeared ready to consider cap-and-trade alternatives as they began their 2009 climate-change hearings on Sept. 15.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission expects to actively participate in any federal carbon cap-and-trade regulation, CFTC Chairman Gary G. Gensler told a US Senate committee on Sept. 9.
The US Minerals Management Service may be forfeiting millions of dollars in natural gas royalties under its royalty-in-kind (RIK) program because it apparently isn't identifying and collecting on imbalances, the Government Accountability Office said.
Romania's oil and gas industry is beginning to turn some heads these days, with an international energy conference scheduled for Sept. 30-Oct. 2 and new production commencing offshore.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, standing by an earlier forecast, predicted that world oil demand will decline slightly in 2009 but will resume growing in 2010.
3Legs Resources PLC unit Lane Energy Poland has signed an agreement with ConocoPhillips for joint evaluation of Lane's six Baltic basin licenses covering 4,000 sq km in Poland.
Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, has established more than 30 million bbl of recoverable oil worth a commercial development on 510,000-acre Block 16/05 east-southeast of Hong Kong in the Pearl River Mouth basin off China and sees several years of active drilling.
A 30-day public scoping period for a large natural gas infill project proposed by EOG Resources Inc., Houston, in eastern Utah began on Sept. 9, the US Bureau of Land Management's Vernal, Utah, field office announced.
A new correlation accurately predicts the flue-gas sulfuric-acid dewpoints to mitigate corrosion problems in process equipments and heat-recovery systems.
China's strategic petroleum reserves capacity will have doubled by 2011-12. This rapid expansion of Chinese petroleum storage capability, coupled with robust growth in oil demand, will only see China's demand for imports—particularly of crude oil—grow.
