The US Congress would repeat past mistakes if it tried to punish the oil and gas industry for consolidations resulting from economic pressures and regulatory requirements, the...
A simulation with Pipephase and Hysys software showed that polyurethane insulation with thermal conductivity of 0.22 w/m-°C. and an electric heater could solve the problem of ...
Oil and gas companies are working to address climate change concerns while developing strategies to extract value from the management of carbon dioxide emissions.
The European Union’s Emission Trading System (ETS) for carbon dioxide has grown rapidly since its launch amid political arguments and bureaucratic turmoil on Jan. 1, 2005, raising...
European Commissioner for Energy Andris Piebalgs on Mar. 8 released a “major Green Paper” containing the European Union (EU) Commission’s “vision for an energy strategy for Europe...
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), said major gas pipelines it proposes in the Rocky Mountains and Louisiana have received long-...
Officials from three Canadian provinces and the Northwest Territories want Canada to retain its important role in US efforts to meet growing needs for natural gas.
US refiners and marketers should get used to this kind of thing: “Big Oil is talking out of both sides of their mouth, but the words coming out of both sides say ‘higher prices...
Six US senators from Gulf Coast states introduced Mar. 8 a bipartisan bill to direct a portion of offshore oil and gas revenues from the Gulf of Mexico to Mississippi, Louisiana...
As they convened a Mar. 14 hearing on oil and gas industry concentration and its potential impact on prices, Senate Judiciary Committee leaders said they plan to introduce legislation...
The Australian government and petroleum industry have jointly launched an outline plan to increase Australia’s flagging oil production, make Australia one of the world’s top five...
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) last week introduced an amendment to the federal budget resolution that assumes reauthorization of the chemical and toxic waste Superfund tax to help...
Continued disruption by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita of natural gas supplies from the Gulf of Mexico illustrates “a problem we have been trying to ignore,” says Nora Brownell of...
Farmers could become the “energy moguls of the 21st Century” if they move beyond ethanol to the large-scale development of wind and solar energy, which, like farming, requires...
With the US heating season officially expiring at the end of March, natural gas prices continued spiraling down earlier this month after the Energy Information Administration ...
The Russian-Ukrainian natural gas dispute provides a reminder that some suppliers are willing to renegotiate contracts forcibly, even to the point of cutting off supplies, if ...
