Some arguments refute themselves with surface nonsense evident to anyone. A glittering example is the recurring argument that operators buy federal oil and gas leases in order to do nothing with them.
New job numbers, crackling with political context, suggest a potent move President Barack Obama might make in his bid for reelection—but almost certainly will not.
On its way down the proverbial slippery slope toward economic statism, Argentina has laid claim to oil and gas assets worth, oh, $18 billion or so.
Iran raised the stakes of an important meeting about its nuclear plans by insulting Arabs and picking a new fight over islands in the Strait of Hormuz.
If they were not in an election year, lawmakers might be fixing America’s fuel ethanol wreck instead of skewering consumers and hiding the damage.
An eternal mistake in the oil and gas business is believing some current trend will last forever. The ruinous mistake is betting money on it.
In service to the quality of discourse, the oil and gas industry should fall silent on energy independence and hope that others who converse about energy recognize the consequent boost to public enlightenment and do likewise.
Justifiably steaming over US inaction on the Keystone XL pipeline, members of Canada’s Conservative Party are counterattacking what they see as sovereignty incursions from the south.
When people are confident enough about their righteousness to make a public display of it, should they not also be right?
The oil sands industry of Canada has taken an important step toward refuting the “dirty oil” claims of environmental activism.
Political conflict over hydraulic fracturing turns on a semantic point crucial but perhaps not evident to the oil and gas industry.
As Congress begins its latest effort to choreograph energy choice, Americans should lock their cash drawers.
Perils linked to Iran are escalating so rapidly that an observer needs a scorecard to gauge market effects.
The trading in units of permission to emit carbon dioxide is supposed to be a market-based response to global warming. It’s really politics.
In battles over hydraulic fracturing and the Keystone XL pipeline, the oil and gas industry must never underestimate the resolve of its opponents. Groups hostile to oil and gas know they have much to lose.
Fidel Castro has raised his revolutionary voice against a well-completion method revolutionizing production of oil and natural gas.
Because the world needs renewable energy, renewable energy needs a new lifecycle.
The US needs an election before the next round of energy legislation. Congress, with its consumption mandates and production subsidies, has done enough damage already.
The European Union has forfeited credibility needed elsewhere with forays last month into drilling and diction.
So far, oil and gas companies have been strangely absent from Democratic Party explanations for why the congressional super committee failed.
National obsessions blocking work vital to US energy supply apply just as logically to struggles against crime on the US-Mexico border. It’s just a matter of spreading fear.
By definition, only one item on a list of bad attributes can be the worst.
As the US switches off Daylight Saving Time, Americans should wonder why Congress in 2005 didn’t just fiddle with clocks and call it a day. Lawmakers instead reshaped energy policy in ways that haven't been good for crude oil and natural gas.
