California's legislature might vote soon to authorize the first new oil activity off Santa Barbara in 40 years as a way to help resolve the state's budget crisis.
Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (Gasco) has awarded more than $9 billion in lump-sum turnkey contracts for engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of its integrated...
A well recently drilled off Mexico, Bolontiku 43, provides an example of numerous drilling problems encountered when drilling tectonically active zones that included extensive...
Four consecutive weeks of smaller-than-expected injections of natural gas into US storage triggered a 12% price jump for the front-month contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange...
Geoservices Group,Paris, has acquired Petrospec Technologies Inc., Conroe, Tex., and Kuala Lumpur. Terms were not disclosed. Geoservices has appointed Petrospec Pres. and CEO ...
New high pressure, high temperature packer elementA new high pressure, high temperature packer element, featuring newly formulated AFLAS compound, is capable of holding pressures...
General Interest — Quick TakesIHS: Global upstream M&A activity rebounded in 2QGlobal upstream mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals nearly doubled in the second quarter, up from...
The Indonesian government, seeking international investment to boost the country's falling output of oil, has released 24 new oil and gas blocks for exploration and production...
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has let a $350 million engineering, procurement, and construction contract to Petrofac Ltd. for the Kauther gas-condensate field depletion-compression...
Ghana has formally approved the first development phase of giant Jubilee oil field, which will tap 300 million bbl and is to begin producing in the second half of 2010.
Testing of LNG regasification packages for floating installations is taking place this summer in advance of commissioning off Brazil, Boston, and Dubai.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has readjusted the borders of Sudan's oil-rich Abyei region, effectively awarding control of key oil facilities in the area to ...
A subcommittee of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee was told that growing demand for oil and gas is one of the main drivers of increasing "friction and tension" over maritime...
The European Biodiesel Board (EBB), representing the major biofuels producing industry in the European Union, praised the European Council for approving what it called "definitive...
Contradictions of energy policy emerge so spontaneously these days in the US that it's rare to have the chance to warn of one before it has fully developed and begun gorging itself...
Far from learning any lessons from their ill-conceived foray into biofuels through the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), Congress and the Obama administration...
The US government should be ready to engage local and state governments overseas in addition to national officials as it tries to secure foreign oil and gas supplies, a US senate...