Volume 108, Issue 2

Total Exploration & Production France on Jan. 11 inaugurated a carbon capture, transportation, and storage pilot project at the Lacq natural gas processing plant and industrial...

Continental Resources Inc., Enid, Okla., said an initial test of a horizontally drilled section of Scallion limestone in west-central North Dakota produced at an uneconomic 7-...

Venezuela's Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and Italy's Eni SPA agreed to establish two joint ventures to produce and refine oil from the Junin 5 block in the Orinoco belt.

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced onshore federal oil and gas leasing reform which he said would provide producers greater certainty but which oil and gas groups argued...

A year ago, we were watching Madagascar's oil and gas industry, and the signs were not promising as demonstrators rampaged in the streets and set fire to an oil depot (OGJ, Feb...

Global oil demand declined a second consecutive year in 2009 for the first time since 1983, the US Energy Information Administration said.

An oil state US House Democrat strongly criticized Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for his characterizations of the oil and gas industry during a teleconference last week with ...

US policymakers need to consider the unintended consequences of federal subsidies and tariffs that go to domestic ethanol producers, concluded a study from Rice University's Baker...

Indonesia unveiled a long-term oil and gas management plan to attract $32 billion in investments for oil and gas facilities in 2010-14.

If you think stability has returned to the oil market, two Rice University researchers have a message that should slosh your coffee: The crisis isn't over.

The second-worst part of land management under US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar is duplicity. The worst part is a systematic slowdown in development of oil and gas resources.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. announced a $2.25 billion joint venture agreement with Total E&P USA Inc. in which Total will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake's upstream Barnett shale...

At first glance, the Jan. 6 letter to three key federal energy and environment policymakers from 14 trade associations about possible early approval of a higher ethanol content...

The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed the strictest federal standards yet for ground-level ozone, commonly known as smog.

As writers, journalists become products of accumulated correction.

St. Augustine said it best: "Faith is to believe what we cannot see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe," in this particular case, the deleterious effects ...

Drillbit offers stabilization, new cutter designThe new Hughes Christensen Quantec Force line of polycrystalline diamond compact drillbits features newly engineered stabilization...

Colder weather across much of the northern hemisphere in late December and early January accelerated the burn-off of a global distillate fuel surplus.