Volume 107, Issue 13

Meeting specifications for renewable fuels in the US requires rapid growth in the use of 85-15 ethanol-gasoline blends (E85) and, if the ethanol industry has its way, relaxation...

Economic pain will shape how the US addresses climate change—if not the question whether it responds at all.

US House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman released a draft of clean energy legislation on Mar. 30.

Calling it an “extraordinary piece of legislation,” US President Barack H. Obama signed a far-reaching public lands bill into law on Mar. 30.

USRep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) was ready to give Ken Salazar the benefit of the doubt.

More shipments of LNG will come to the US this year, whether the market needs them or not.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission closed the so-called “Enron Loophole” on Mar. 23 as it approved final rules and amendments increasing its oversight of exempt commercial...

Iraq is considering offering exploration blocks under production-sharing agreements (PSA) this year for its second licensing round, according to Oil Minister Hussain Al-Shahristani...

Suncor Energy Inc. and Petro-Canada, both of Calgary, have agreed to merge the two companies in a $19.3 billion (Can.) transaction. The resulting company, Suncor, will have 7....

For anyone in the oil and gas industry, the spectacle of an American president sacking the head of General Motors should be chilling.

Brazil’s President Luiz Lula da Silva, apparently reversing earlier decisions, said his government is again considering an invitation to join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting...

A recent survey has found that while oil and gas industry professionals may view certain social media tools—such as networking web sites, instant messaging, text messaging, wikis...

Chevron Corp. has promoted John S. Watson to vice-chairman. Currently serving as executive vice-president, strategy and development, Watson succeeds Peter J. Robertson, who is...

The international oil and gas industry—as well as Russia’s—is watching with incredulity as prosecutors bring a new case against former OAO Yukos Chief Executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky...

As an oil executive and an American, I also find the course being pursued in Washington, DC, to be energy suicide (OGJ, Mar. 9, 2009, p. 68). I think it’s time for Atlas to shrug...

In the final days of March, market analysts saw some indications that the economic crisis might be nearing bottom and could perhaps rebound in the second half of this year.

In case anyone finds the difference between war and larceny puzzling, US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar Offers help.

New industry visualization toolTime Chart, a new web visualization tool, expands the capabilities of the PetroTrek tool kit of web parts and services.The new tool allows users...

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