The US list of latter-day energy anxieties has a new item: labor. With Americans losing jobs faster than at any time in decades, the Obama administration proposes to make work...
Libya may nationalize its oil industry to control production as oil prices have plummeted over 70% over the past year, said Muammar Qadhafi, the country’s leader.
In an unprecedented economic and financial crisis where “all reference marks have disappeared,” the president of the Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP), Olivier Appert, ventured...
Madagascar’s oil and gas industry received a blow last week when thousands of demonstrators, demanding a new government, hit the streets and set fire to an oil depot.
In their effort to access hydrocarbons, international oil companies (IOCs) face a major challenge: convincing national oil companies (NOCs) and host governments that they provide...
Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), eyeing continued depletion at its main oil field, said the country’s oil production declined by 9.2% in 2008 to just under 2.8 million b/...
US President Barack H. Obama signed memorandums on Jan. 26 granting California and other states the right to raise air quality standards above the national level and ordering ...
General Interest Quick TakesFERC issues first ROE order incorporating MLPsThe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a Kern River Gas Transmission Co. settlement on Jan...
Energy security must be an important and integrated element of US foreign policy, US Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton said as the Senate considered her nomination.
Proved US oil reserves rose by 345 million bbl, or 2%, during 2007 to 21.32 billion bbl from 20.97 billion bbl at the beginning of the year, reported the US Energy Information...
The newly formed North Caspian Operating Co. BV (NCOC), as part of earlier agreement, has replaced the Agip KCO consortium as operator of Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field development...
Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, started gas sales in December 2008 from Pennsylvanian Gothic shale in the Paradox basin, where the company plans to run one rig in 2009.
There is no doubt that while sea surface temperatures are rising and glaciers around the world are receding, as far as the global economy is concerned, we are in for a big chill...
There are “ample signs” that the US states and federal government will take a bigger tax bite from both upstream and downstream oil and gas operations to cover pending financial...
Global Industries Ltd.,BorjaClick here to enlarge imageHouston, has appointed two executives to lead the company’s commercial growth strategies, marketing, and business development...
Solution gases and reservoir pressure can allow operation of offshore transmission pipelines carrying high pour point, paraffinic crude without pour point depressant (PPD), even...
Partnership offers seismic interpretation Seismic Micro-Technology Inc. (SMT), Houston, has become an independent software vendor (ISV) partner with Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co...
The French government awarded two 5-year exploration permits to midsized oil companies to explore offshore Juan de Nova, a tiny island possession in the Mozambique Channel between...
Seneca Resources Corp., third largest acreage holder in the Devonian Marcellus shale gas play, plans to emerge as an operator of record this year even as it continues a joint ...
The Tamar rank wildcat well in the eastern Mediterranean off northern Israel has discovered a resource at least equal to the predrill estimate of more than 3 tcf of gas, said ...
