Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Co. (ORPIC) has completed installation of a hydrocracker as part of the company's long-planned Sohar Refinery Improvement Project (SRIP...
Unipetrol AS has shuttered production at its Chempark Zaluzi petrochemical complex in Litvinov, Czech Republic, following an explosion and ensuing fire at the site's 544,000-tonne...
OOO Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk (GPB), a subsidiary of PJSC Gazprom, has partnered with NIPIgazpererabotka (Nipigaz), Moscow, on design and construction of a grassroots...
The overall US drilling rig count's 13-unit drop during the week ended Sept. 4 entirely consisted of oil-directed, land-based units, according to data from Baker Hughes Inc.
Texas crude oil production in July remained resilient against low wellhead prices, jumping 15% year-over-year to remain on track to break the state's annual production record ...
Sustainable energy may have a growing percentage of International Finance Corp.'s portfolio, but that doesn't mean the World Bank affiliate has written off oil and gas.
LNG projects worldwide continue to move toward final investment decisions (FID) in 2015 and 2016 in contrast to 45 upstream oil and gas projects that have been deferred already...
The US Bureau of Land Management's Moab, Utah, field office began a 90-day comment period on Aug. 21 for a draft proposed Master Leasing Plan (MLP) for 946,469 acres of public...
Muted as the subject has been early in a presidential political cycle, energy offers savvy candidates the raw material for attention-grabbing drama. The US approaches a politically...
The oil and gas industry continues to drive US economic gains in 2015, a trend that could accelerate under free trade policies, noted American Petroleum Institute Chief Economist...
The drive to remove the 40-year-old ban on exporting US-produced crude oil is gaining momentum as more members of Congress recognize the action's obvious energy, economic, and...
The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Chair Lisa Murkowski's (R-Alas.) bill to end the ban on exporting US-produced oil. But Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) ...
The Obama administration may hope that the final rule for coal-fired power plants that it announced Aug. 3 will lead to more renewable and alternative technologies being deployed...
The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee sent the broad energy policy bill developed by Chair Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) and Ranking Minority Member Maria E. Cantwell...
The US should better prepare itself to use its new energy abundance as a geopolitical tool by jettisoning obsolete policies and broadening access for potential overseas customers...
The Obama administration's final rule to curb US power plants' greenhouse gas emissions did not acknowledge natural gas's potential contributions, officials from two national ...
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has granted conditional approval to Royal Dutch Shell PLC of two applications for permits to drill (APD) to conduct...
The Texas Petro Index (TPI) for June indicates that crude oil and natural gas production and jobs estimates in the Lone Star State increased from May despite the unfavorable economic...
A difficult year thus far for the integrated, multinational oil and gas firms caused by low oil prices has been somewhat eased by improved production and better refining margins...
The US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed two related and already well-founded suspicions when it published its final rule on emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants...
The US Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) last year proposed updating its rules to require mapping interstate natural gas pipelines to within 5 ft of...