ChinaShell China E&P Co. Ltd. signed a production-sharing contract with China National Offshore Oil Corp. for Block 35/10 in the Yinggehai basin in the western South China Sea...
The US oil and natural gas industry increased by more than 162,000 jobs—a 40% increase—from the start of 2007 through yearend 2012, according to a recent report from the US Department...
Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd., Calgary, is testing two strategies to expand the combustion zone and raise production in a pioneering thermal heavy-oil project in Saskatchewan...
MarkWest Utica EMG formed a joint venture with Kinder Morgan to open a 1,100-mile natural gas liquids pipeline to the Gulf Coast, expand northern Ohio rich-gas processing capacity...
Transactions involving unconventional oil and gas assets remained a key driver for deal activity in the second quarter, and midstream shale assets values beat upstream shale deal...
Research by the US Geological Survey may begin to help public well water managers identify how vulnerable their systems are to contamination, but the study that USGS released ...
North Dakota's two US senators—John Hoeven (R) and Heidi Heitkamp (D)—welcomed US Sec. of the Interior Sally Jewell to the state for a 2-day visit on Aug. 6.
The US Department of State's Office of Inspector General is studying whether a conflict of interest was created when a consultant that had done work for oil companies was hired...
Completing the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline would not have a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions because other transportation routes used in its absence ...
Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto formally proposed a plan on Aug. 12 to reform the country's oil and gas sector as a way to stimulate foreign investment.
If the US can't act friendly with its neighbor to the north, it at least should refrain from outright hostility. Current US policy makes appeasement of extreme environmentalists...
Decades ago when I covered oil and gas for a Houston daily newspaper, some editor each spring would gas up his vehicle on the way to work and suddenly realize pump prices were...