Volume 117, Issue 5

Canada’s government is toughening standards for offshore conservation in ways that can preclude oil and gas activity in some areas.

ConocoPhillips reported first-quarter 2019 earnings of $1.8 billion compared with first-quarter 2018 earnings of $900 million. Excluding special items, first-quarter adjusted ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has not adequately prepared for potential engine damage problems which would result from using the wrong fuel, officials from the American...

The oil and gas industry’s long march to recovery has created a big imbalance across the oil and gas ecosystem and performance gains of companies continue to be discounted by ...

Valero Energy Corp. is investing $400 million to expand alkylation capacity at subsidiary Valero Refining New Orleans LLC’s 340,000-b/d St. Charles refinery in Norco, La.

The US Chemical Safety Board called on the US Environmental Protection Agency to review its existing hydrofluoric acid (HF) study to determine if existing regulations are effective...

Gazpromneft-Zapolyarye has completed agreements allowing it to start developing Cretaceous Achimov strata in Yamburgskoye oil and gas condensate field and oil-rim deposits in ...

Chevron Corp. reported first-quarter earnings of $2.6 billion, down from $3.6 billion in first-quarter 2018 while its worldwide net oil-equivalent production was 3.04 million ...

Equinor and Faroe Petroleum PLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of DNO ASA of Oslo, have completed their no-cash exchange of producing and development interests offshore Norway.

The pursuit of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. ramped up in late April as the company resumed negotiations with Occidental Petroleum Corp. On Apr. 30, Oxy reported Berkshire Hathaway...

ExxonMobil Corp. reported an oil discovery offshore Guyana with the Yellowtail-1 well on Stabroek block, bringing to 13 the total discoveries on that block and adding to an estimated...

The US Department of the Interior disputed a Wall Street Journal report quoting Sec. David L. Bernhardt as saying development of a new US Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing...

US offshore operators have more in common than they might think with independent producers fracturing horizontal onshore wells in England. The important work of both groups faces...

These days, the business of oil and gas conferencing is big. And by big, of course, this editor means financially as well as physically. With growing US shale production poised...