US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar announced plans to develop a federal onshore oil and gas drilling permit system that potentially could reduce the application review period to as ...
As the US Senate moved toward its Mar. 29 vote on legislation that would have raised the nation's five largest oil companies' federal taxes, four experts reminded the Energy and...
The US Environmental Protection Agency's deadline for issuing New Source Performance Standards to reduce air pollution from oil and gas drilling and production was extended from...
The US Environmental Protection Agency raised the allowable limit of ethanol in gasoline to 15% on Apr. 2 as it approved the first registration applications to supply the additive...
Memo to the people of France: With reference to the fear to which Parliament sacrificed your energy and economic interests last year, please disregard.
New management system measures chemical usageThe new economy liquid inventory management system (ELIMS) helps measure oil field chemical usage. It's designed for the inventory...
Living in the US, one could be forgiven for believing that continued development of global fossil fuel resources and infrastructure must come at the expense of alternative energies...
The US Senate procedurally rejected Robert Menendez's (D-NJ) bill that would have ended several federal tax deductions for the five largest US oil companies and redirect the money...
The US Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn an administrative order issued to Range Resources Corp. and Range Production Co. on Dec. 7, 2010, that alleged Range polluted...
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement approved Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.'s oil spill response plan (OSRP) for the Beaufort Sea on Mar. 28.
Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc. and Nexen Inc. have demonstrated a contingent recoverable resource of 215 million bbl of oil equivalent in the Jurassic Norphlet formation in the northeast...
The US Department of the Interior has strengthened oversight of the offshore oil and gas industry's ability to respond to a subsea well blowout, and industry has responded by ...
A flare on the Elgin platform in the UK North Sea extinguished itself Mar. 31, and Total SA outlined plans to stop the gas leak by boarding the platform to control the well while...