The Iranian government, in a stand-off with the United Nations Security Council over its “inalienable right” to develop nuclear power, has threatened to use a newly tested short...
Apex Oil Co. Inc. has been ordered to clean up contamination from its former refining operations in Hartford, Ill., the US Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency...
Citing dramatically higher prices, US Department of the Interior Secretary Dirk A. Kempthorne started the Minerals Management Service’s next 5-year Outer Continental Shelf lease...
US Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said Interior Secretary Dirk A. Kempthorne has taken “a questionable step” in beginning to prepare a new 5-year Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas...
More domestic oil and gas exploration will be needed as the US makes a transition to a new energy economy, US Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said in a presidential campaign address...
Technological advances in producing and refining liquid fuels in situ using high-temperature heat from nuclear reactors can resolve two major problems—dependence on oil from unstable...
Bipartisan groups of US Senate and House members offered new energy proposals as Democratic and Republican leaders continued to trade potshots while a 5-week congressional recess...
US House Democrats charged Republican leaders with pressuring many GOP members to change their votes and defeat an energy commodities reform bill on July 30.
General Interest Quick TakesCoup threatens Mauritania’s oil, gas industryMauritania’s nascent oil and gas industry, already under threat from the al-Qaeda terrorist organization...
The price of oil continues to pinch in Japan. To be sure, the world’s benchmark super crude oil tanker rates from the Gulf to Japan fell to 7-month lows last week due to ample...
Last month the UK’s broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, cleared Channel 4 of “materially misleading the audience so as to cause harm or offense” on its television documentary challenging...
Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, said its gross operated production from the Fayetteville shale play area in north-central Arkansas was 500 MMcfd of natural gas, including 12...
Paradigm BV,WardClick here to enlarge imageAmsterdam, has appointed Richard H. Ward regional vice-president, China. As regional vice-president, Ward manages and develops business...
For a baffling array of bad reasons, the US Congress produced, before starting its 5-week recess, one beneficial proposition on energy along with a baffling array of wrong proposals...
AustraliaRodinia Oil Corp., Calgary, let a contract to Ryder Scott Co. LP to estimate hydrocarbon resource potential on its acreage in the remote, nonproducing Officer basin in...
New real time digital well flow profiling sysytemImages from the new system show sample of digital flow profile (top), high temperature distributed temperature sensing well monitoring...
Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, said its Morskaya-1 exploration well, which was drilled on Lagansky block in the northern Caspian Sea off Russia, has encountered a major oil accumulatio...
Apache Corp. said it has proved a Jurassic Safa formation oil play that could cover as much as 830 sq miles in Egypt’s western desert, most of it on company-operated acreage.
