Volume 107, Issue 40

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On Oct. 14, the front-month crude contract closed above $75/bbl on the New York Mercantile Exchange for the first time since the same date in 2008, ending a long period when intraday...

US oil and gas workers have extra reason to find interesting the Congressional Budget Office's confirmation that cap-and-trade legislation passed by the House of Representatives...

Publishing Oil & Gas Journal magazine and web site has always been a challenging and rewarding task for the small group of people whose names you see on the masthead.

A 2005 National Energy Policy Act (NEPACT) provision designed to facilitate onshore drilling permit processing remains a target of advocates for far-reaching US oil and gas leasing...

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a second round of federal oil shale leases on Oct. 20 with substantially different terms than the first round.

Economic uncertainty, volatile oil and gas prices, and frozen capital markets, combined with growing reservoir complexity, are having a significant effect on oil and gas exploration...

The US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will begin 3 days of hearings on Oct. 27 on the global climate-change bill that its chairwoman, Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), ...

A US House subcommittee passed chemical security legislation Oct. 14 that critics said would change federal regulations that have not been fully implemented.

Holly Corp. has entered a definitive agreement to purchase Sinclair Oil Corp.'s 75,000-b/d refinery in Tulsa and will integrate the facility with its 85,000-b/d refinery 2 miles...

The timing of oil and natural gas development in the Arctic, estimated to hold 22% of the world's undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources, has grown less predictable with...

The threat to US refining from misguided climate-change legislation has become chillingly clear.

As if the oil and gas industry didn't already have enough problems on its hands, bombers struck a train in Georgia this week and reawakened memories of the conflict that occurred...

Canadian oil sands development represents a potential economic boon that could lead to more than 342,000 new US jobs, concluded a Canadian Energy Research Institute study commissioned...

US energy production and consumption cost an estimated $120 billion, primarily from motor vehicle and electric power plant emissions, beyond market prices in 2005, the National...

The US Minerals Management Service approved Shell Offshore Inc.'s exploration plan for two Beaufort Sea leases with stringent conditions, the US Department of the Interior agency...