Volume 108, Issue 20

A sharp improvement in energy-security risk in the US last year coincided with economic crisis and doesn't represent the start of a trend, according to an assessment by the Institute...

A team of scientists and government officials reviewing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico came up with flow rate estimates of 12,000-25,000 b/d, depending on the methodology...

The Macondo blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is prompting groups in other countries to review offshore regulations and procedures.

The US Department of Justice has opened civil and criminal investigations into the Apr. 20 Gulf of Mexico deepwater well blowout and rig explosion that killed 11 people and set...

The US Department of the Interior began to implement new safety requirements for offshore oil and gas activities in response to President Barack Obama's May 27 order.

A bitter consequence of an offshore tragedy is the political excuse it supplies for a process capable of ravaging the oil and gas industry, taxpayers, and energy consumers.

Three reports from the National Academies of Science on May 19 are giving climate-change legislation advocates new ammunition in their battle to have Congress enact a bill.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said his country will increase its oil production by 300,000 b/d toward yearend, but did not detail which fields the additional supplies would...

It is possible that the Deepwater Horizon debacle will have the same kind of damper effect on offshore oil output that Three Mile Island and Chornobyl did on nuclear energy.

When an elected government wants to commandeer economic decision-making, people should have the chance to vote on its plans.

After intraday trading as low as $67.15/bbl earlier in the week, the July contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes rebounded to $74.55/bbl May 27 on the New York Mercantile...

Of all the concerns raised by the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, imprecision of the flow rate should rank low on a scale of urgency.

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Commercial development of shale gas with directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing is for the present almost entirely restricted to North America.

Commercial development of shale gas with directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing is for the present almost entirely restricted to North America.

Rig owners face financial jolts and business adjustments after the shutdown of deepwater drilling in response to the Apr. 20 Transocean Deepwater Horizon tragedy and continuing...