Volume 105, Issue 40

As the director of statistics at the American Petroleum Institute, I read with great interest the recent articles about estimating drilling costs.

The chairmen of a US House committee and one of its subcommittees are seeking more information about a recent oil exploration contract that Hunt Oil Co. signed with the Kurdistan...

Western leaders, mistrustful of the intentions of Russia as a supplier of energy, want to ensure that other sources of oil and gas are available.

The White House has notified US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that President George W. Bush would veto any energy bill that reduced instead of increased domestic production...

Small building and contracting businesses potentially would benefit from energy efficiency provisions in legislation that the US House passed earlier this year, three witnesses...

Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, following his recent public criticism of the country’s oil and gas output, is said to be planning changes in the industry’s ...

Two LNG projects in Western Australia have passed through certain approval stages, moving them closer to reaching completion.

Trade association Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) has launched a new framework agreement to help operators clarify decommissioning liabilities for infrastructure on the UK continental shelf...

Does an $80/bbl oil price pose a threat the economy? Not necessarily, according to the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Simply crossing the street from hotel side to beach side on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana unveils any number of unique cultural attributes.

The US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasts this winter will be 2.8% warmer than the 30-year norm for the US in December through February but still 1...

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PCWashington, DC, has announced that Scott L. Campbell has joined the firm’s headquarters office. Campbell is an internationally...

Saudi Arabia has been limiting production to raise oil prices while blaming the effects on speculation and US refining problems, a London think-tank says.

Papua New GuineaAustral Pacific Energy Ltd., Wellington, NZ, will appraise the remote Stanley gas-condensate discovery in far western Papua New Guinea.The 1999 discovery well,...

It would have been naive to hope energy bills passed by the House and Senate might die because no one got around to reconciling them.

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India’s Petroleum Ministry has asked state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp. to review its existing mechanism for developing marginal fields, in order to ensure more attractive fiscal...

Royalite Petroleum Co. Inc., an Austin independent that owns 100% working interest in more than 67,000 acres in Central Utah’s Hingeline trend, also hopes to explore near recent...