Statoil ASA has wrapped up its 2013-14 exploration program in the Barents Sea-one that included a notable disturbance from environmental activists-with fewer commercial discoveries...
Production in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a new peak of 1.9 million boe/d in 2016, according to the latest outlook from consultancy group Wood Mackenzie ...
Oil producers in North Dakota's Bakken and Three Forks formations could be required to strip gases from crude oil showing high vapor pressure before transporting the oil under...
Hess Corp. plans to increase its production growth rate forecast by 6-10%/year during 2013-18, assuming $90-100/bbl Brent, anchored by production in the Bakken shale and deepwater...
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has received permission to commission units at its Abreu e Lima refinery (Rnest) at the port of Suape, near Recife, the capital of Pernambuco...
Mexico is moving quickly to implement its aggressive energy reforms, two officials of its government told a conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars....
The biggest issue this winter could be electricity generation in New England because of pipeline constraints rather than a drawdown of stored natural gas as happened last winter...
The US Senate finally debated a bill authorizing construction of the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline on Nov. 18 before rejecting the measure by a single vote. Republicans...
Amid growing energy supply geopolitics, Greece is a stable anchor within a rapidly destabilizing region, Yannis Maniatis, its Environment, Energy, and Climate Change Minister,...
More oil and gas executives are growing increasingly confident that the US will be self-sufficient in oil in 5-10 years, said a Deloitte survey titled, "2014 Oil & Gas Survey:...
Polling conducted by Gallup in August drilled home what most of us already knew: People don't like the oil and gas industry. Fifty-six percent of those polled had either a "somewhat...
From outside the US, a sudden rush to approve the Keystone XL pipeline must be puzzling. Isn't this the project not acted upon for 6 years and counting?
Politics provided an interesting sideshow to the unsuccessful, ironic, last-minute push in the 113th Congress for sanction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The oil and gas industry...