Volume 112, Issue 2a

The US oil and gas industry finished 2013 strong when it came to mergers and acquisitions, but the late-year push to a total of 182 deals totaling $115.9 billion wasn't enough...

Hess Corp. reported that its exploration and production capital budget for 2014 is expected to reach $5.8 billion, almost have of which, $2.85 billion, will be spent on unconventional...

Unconventional resources in the US constituted the oil and gas industry's largest source of growth in 2013—a trend that's expected to continue into 2014, Ernst & Young indicated...

Countries already are making geopolitical moves to secure Arctic oil and gas resources despite actual development being decades away in most cases, experts agreed at a Woodrow...

If there was any doubt before, there isn't now: Many in Texas believe the state is fighting an outside invader again.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC will not resume activity on federal leases it holds offshore Alaska in 2014 because a US appeals court's Jan. 22 decision in a 2008 lawsuit against the US...

Witnesses on both sides of the debate over whether to expand US crude oil exports used improved energy security and creation of more domestic jobs to support their viewpoints ...

The proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline's construction and operation would not have significant environmental impacts, the US Department of State said in its long-awaited ...

Only by expanding can the gasoline market now accommodate new amounts of federally mandated ethanol. Yet gasoline consumption has stagnated in the US.

Oil production from the Permian basin in West Texas is once again on the rise. According to the January Drilling Productivity Report published by the US Energy Information Administratio...