Volume 106, Issue 29

Indonesia, in a bid to exercise greater control over contract holders, will allow upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas to assign officials to work as vice-president within internation...

Expectations that supplies will continue to dwindle while demand keeps growing have pushed crude oil prices dramatically higher since the beginning of 2008, two leading energy...

The US Bureau of Land Management issued a record of decision that sets the stage for a major lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska’s northeast portion.

Several members of Congress may try to minimize it. But experts say that a basic force behind dramatically higher oil and gas prices is more expensive exploration and production...

The US and Mexico are reported to have begun talks on how to conduct oil exploration operations in the Gulf of Mexico beginning in 2011 when a 10-year moratorium expires.

Indonesia’s state-owned PT Pertamina will raise its fuel imports by 60% for about a month to compensate for a drop in production at its Cilacap refinery in Central Java.

Chakib Khelil, president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, while acknowledging that Indonesia has played an important role since joining the organization in...

US oil demand dropped 3% in 2008’s first 6 months as gasoline deliveries fell 1.7% in their first significant 6-month decrease since 1991, the American Petroleum Institute reported...

The United States has 2,247 tcf of natural gas reserves, enough to last 118 years at 2007 demand levels, a new study has said.

Most of the Arctic, especially offshore, is essentially unexplored with respect to petroleum.

The biggest ever work-week fall of crude prices dropped a total $16.20 July 14-18 to $128.88/bbl, “below key price points that bulls may have needed to hold onto to continue their...

Most Americans base their distaste for foreign oil on presumed instability in the Middle East.

Field data capture system offers updated versionField data capture system eVIN has released its latest version—eVIN 2008.The company says its mobile application for oil fields...

After years of neglect, US energy politics at last considers supply. The attention is skewed by the politics of a grueling election year.

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Offshore exploration and appraisal drilling in UK waters in the first 6 months of 2008 kept pace with 2007’s level, said the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory...