There are three possible scenarios to explain why an oil company, such as ExxonMobil Corp. and Total SA, might buy a bid package yet ultimately not place an actual bid for the...
\Unocal Corp. won an initial victory with a US Federal Trade Commission administrative law judge Nov. 25 over agency allegations the company was trying to corner the California...
Demand for natural gas in Thailand is expected to continue to track upward through 2015 at "a health average annual growth rate of 5.4%," according to a report released last month...
Ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided Dec. 4 to maintain current oil production quotas at a special meeting in Vienna.
The multiple service contracts recently awarded by Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico's national oil company, to international oil companies "mark an important step on the road to freeing...
The US District Court for the Northern District of New York Nov. 21 rejected a request by methyl tertiary butyl ether producers to strike down an impending ban on the clean fuel...
FACTS: India's long-term gas supply outlook is bright India has a bright long-term natural gas supply outlook, but the medium-term outlook is murky, said Fereidun Fesharaki, a...
Growth in China's oil imports could contribute to maintaining the healthy rate structure that will be needed to pay for new tanker construction, said shipping consultant Poten...
Awash in discoveries In the 1970s, when scientist J. Craig Venter was working on his doctorate at the University of California, he was told: "Basically it would be difficult to...
California study supports view that fish like platforms In the late 1970s, states on the US East Coast successfully thwarted drilling in federal waters off their shores.
Russia, Europe, and Kyoto The 9th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change opened in Milan last week to news of a setback to the Kyoto Protocol....
