BP PLC and ConocoPhillips are leaving the US Climate Action Program because they believe they can be more effective on their own in the national global climate-change debate, ...
EOG Resources Inc., Houston, will drill several wells in 2010 to prove its belief that Jurassic Bossier dry gas pay exists on at least half of its 160,000 acres in the Jurassic...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered reassurances to international oil companies after state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) signed agreements with two consortia to...
Saying the US Environmental Protection Agency wrongly outsourced scientific review to a United Nations commission, Texas government leaders said on Feb. 16 that the state will...
US natural gas markets should gradually improve during 2010 with modest demand growth, lower production and imports, and higher prices, the US Energy Information Administration...
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, intent on increasing tension over oil exploration in the South Atlantic, has signed a government decree restricting the movement of vessels...
The French refining industry faces a "critical" situation as part of a European system in which "between 10 to 15% of the 114 refineries should be shut down to restore a demand...
Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, will fold its natural gas pipeline and US midstream businesses into Williams Partners LP, along with its limited and general-partner interests in Williams...
The US Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration may be underestimating natural gas demand with much of the US South and Northeast enveloped in yet another round...
Suddenly, bipartisanship is back in fashion in Washington, DC. Since the general election of November 2008, bipartisanship has been the runaway spaniel of politics—something missed...
Continuing US offshore oil and gas leasing moratoriums from 2009 through 2030 would decrease US oil production by 9.9 billion bbl—or an average 15%/year—and natural gas production...
Calvalley Petroleum Inc., Calgary, has tested oil and gas-condensate from fractured granitic basement and gas-condensate from Jurassic Kohlan sands at its Qarn Qaymah-2 deep exploratory...
Jobs and the economy have dominated a number of US governors' State of the State (SOTS) and budget addresses so far in 2010, and will be prominent issues as the National Governors...
Utah was very much in the news a year ago after US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered the Bureau of Land Management to reject 77 successful bids from a December 2008 lease...
General Interest — Quick TakesBLS cites rising energy prices in latest PPIRising energy prices were a major influence as the Producer Price Index for Finished Goods climbed 1....
Total SA's six refineries and 12 product depots in France have been hit by labor strikes supporting the Feb. 16 takeover by workers of the idle 137,000-b/d Dunkirk refinery.
During a time when much attention is focused on the global recession, unemployment, and other gloomy reports, it was nice to see positive news recently.
Bechtel Group Inc.,San Francisco, has elected former Chevron Corp. Chairman and CEO David J. O'Reilly to its board of directors. O'Reilly recently retired from a 41-year career...
New vibration tester is hand-held unitHere's the Fluke 810 vibration tester, which enables maintenance teams to rapidly collect data and diagnose and solve mechanical problems...
