Volume 105, Issue 30

The front-month crude contract ended the trading week through Aug. 3 with a 2% loss after setting record highs in earlier sessions on the New York market.

The US House of Representatives passed a pair of energy bills Aug. 4 that Democrats said would greatly accelerate energy efficiency and alternative development efforts.

Money, they say, is the root of all evil, but these days a lot of evil is being committed in the name of oil.

Iran’s potentially destabilizing shortage of gasoline will ease by 2012, according to a veteran observer of the country’s oil industry.

The July 1 opening of gas and electricity markets in Europe jumped to 12 million from 680,000 the number of French customers who can select their gas suppliers, but the Energy...

BP PLC must improve its operational performance to boost its profits, said BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, at a press conference in London to present the company’s second-quarter...

US gasoline production and demand broke records during this year’s first half despite higher prices and several unplanned refinery breakdowns, the American Petroleum Institute...

There have been a couple of interesting divergences concerning the oil market recently.

Drilling and 3D seismic surveying are ramping up in the Arkoma basin Fayetteville shale gas play in Arkansas.

AlgeriaA group led by Repsol YPF SA has found gas in an Ordovician formation in the Reggane-6 (RG-6) appraisal well on block 351c and 352c in Algeria’s Sahara Desert.The well ...

Knowledge Systems Inc.Houston, has elected Jamey Webster as chief executive officer. Webster, who served as the company’s chief operating officer for the past four years, succeeds...

Why can’t movie stars at least try to live up to their on-screen heroism?

The Democrat-controlled House has given Republicans the chance to act once again as though they believe in the fundamentals of their party.

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