Volume 98, Issue 10

US Energy Sec. Bill Richardson doesn't get it.

The comment I heard most often during my years as managing editor of OGJ (1964-78) was: "I don't see how you do it every week!" My response usually was, "There are weeks when ...

California's Santa Barbara County has approved transfer of Chevron Corp.'s 26% ownership in the Point Arguello project to Plains Resources Inc. but by mutual agreement named a...

Nigeria is planning to more than double its daily production by 2010, according to Presidential Advisor on Petroleum Matters Rilwanu Lukman. Lukman indicated production would ...

There is growing evidence that the key to a successful joint venture or production-sharing agreement in Russia may lie not in Moscow but with committed and progressive-thinking...

The Joint Authority for the Timor Gap Zone of Cooperation has approved the development plan for Phillips Petroleum Co.'s Bayu-Undan gas recycle project.

For future market cycles, the oil industry should learn to use the s-word.

Already competing for capital with the "dot-com and e-everything" internet companies that are the new darlings of Wall Street, energy companies soon may be vying for customers...

Turning around Russia's oil industry poses challenges as huge as that nation's alluring potential must seem to the foreign majors that would pursue investment there.

US Environmental Protection Agency ordered Sunoco Inc., Philadelphia, and affiliate Sun Pipe Line Co. to restore the environment at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in ...

Already competing for capital with the "dot-com and e-everything" internet companies that are the new darlings of Wall Street, energy companies soon may be vying for customers...

After a 10-month pursuit, NiSource Inc. has agreed to acquire Columbia Energy Group in an $8.5 billion cash, stock, and debt deal that will create the largest US natural gas company...

Thirty-one Nigerian exploration licenses were revoked last week in another cleanup exercise to revamp the domestic oil sector.

One of the Gulf of Mexico's oldest fields has responded positively to a redevelopment program that began last year.