Following hurricane Beryl, utility Centerpoint…
Whether or not the U.S.…
The World Bank's latest report…
The natural gas boom and climate change that saw a milder winter and lower demand for propane and resultant over-supply have all helped to bring down propane prices, but the…
What a difference international sanctions and intense U.S. pressure make.Turkey in March imported more than 270,000 barrels per day of oil from Iran, nearly triple the previous month’s…
American oil and gas prospector Apache Corp stunned natural gas investors Thursday June 14, 2012 with a natural gas discovery announcement, the main point of which is, “…
Oil production in Yemen has for all intents and purposes halted, with no immediate solution for recovery, and uncertainty over whether Saudi Arabia will maintain the flow of free oil…
This election year, America faces many crucial legislative choices in the oil/gas industry–and the PR strategy of oil companies will certainly affect the outcome.What should oil company executives…
And you thought the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) was all about limiting greenhouse gas emissions, didn’t you? Think again.There is a brewing fight in Sacramento…
The CEO of French supermajor Total met with leaders in Myanmar during the weekend, including Nobel Peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Leading a delegation of top energy executives,…
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to publish new proposed rules setting air quality standards for soot this week under terms of a tentative settlement agreement reached with eleven…
Canada’s Enbridge was sandbagged last year by the Obama administration’s postponing a decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, designed to ship Alberta’s oil sands to U.S. refineries on the…
Washington this week added another seven countries to the list of those exempt from sanctions that target the Iranian energy sector. The U.S. government and its allies believe Tehran is…
The other day, I received an email from a representative of an international oil company, which is wholly owned by the government and reports to the Department of Energy. The…
North America’s oil & gas production growth is the envy of the world. From the Alberta oil sands to shale plays across the US, we are getting down to business…
With jobs set to be a key vote-winning point in US November presidential elections, the debate is being framed along the polarized lines of whether renewable energy or a revival…
The U.S. Energy Department said oil production has reached a 14-year high thanks in large part to a boom in North Dakota, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama…
Gallup has just released new poll results showing that a majority of Chinese citizens care more about cleaning up the environment than they do about growing the economy. Among…
An Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of a team searching for an inexpensive alternative to platinum catalysts, turned to carbon, developing multi-walled carbon nanotube complex that consists of…
Petro-rich oil state Azerbaijan has decided to invest some of its billions in neighbouring Turkey.On 7 June State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Vice President Suleyman Gasimov told…
I’d like to share a recent statement by the Keith Hutton, CEO of XTO Energy, a major natural gas exploration and development company in Texas recently acquired by Exxon Mobil.
Since I first started writing about energy in 2005, I have said many times that my view on oil prices is long-term, and that if I projected five years into…
Here's a promising story for the U.S. economy.The figure below plots the price of crude oil in dollars per barrel and the price of natural gas on an…