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Oct 22, 2014 at 17:19

Russia’s chief investigative panel has opened a criminal probe into the Oct. 20 accident at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport that killed Christophe de Margerie, the CEO of the French multinational…

Oct 22, 2014 at 17:11

Here I re-tread a well-trodden path, but with recent events in the oil market I thought a brief recap might be timely.I begin with a photographic illustration of…

Oct 22, 2014 at 16:49

When the world's business editors sent their reporters canvassing to find out what is behind the recent plunge in the world oil price, they were doing what they do almost…

Oct 22, 2014 at 09:09

Utah is home to more than half of America’s known oil sands, but getting it out of the ground requires an unusual twist in the technology flow: This time we’re…

Oct 21, 2014 at 17:43

Slumping oil prices are putting pressure on U.S. drillers.The number of active rigs drilling for oil and gas fell by their most in two months, according to the…

Oct 21, 2014 at 17:27

Investors force big private energy companies into liquidation; energy dominance shifts to emerging markets CHICAGO: Lee Raymond, the famously pugnacious oilman who led ExxonMobil between 1999 and 2005,…

Oct 21, 2014 at 17:02

While still a predominant factor in the war being waged by the Islamic State, oil is taking a back seat as the full brunt of Middle East-style politics is unleashed…

Oct 21, 2014 at 16:52

When the Norwegian energy company Norsk Hydro explored a prospective oil well in the North Sea in 1992, it found only an estimated 6 million barrels of crude, then abandoned…

Oct 21, 2014 at 15:37

Justifiable preoccupation by intelligence analysts with the rise of the People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) has paralleled the focus of popular attention on the growth of the People’s Republic of China…

Oct 21, 2014 at 09:36

One of North America’s older, more mature plays, the Rocky Mountain’s Piceance Basin doesn’t get the same media attention as the newcomers, but there is a beast under the boulders…

Oct 21, 2014 at 09:06

Sometimes a ho-hum resource destination can go to a superstar overnight.Often driven by changes in local prices.That may be the case in one of the world’s…

Oct 20, 2014 at 17:24

Japan’s record purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG) show no sign of slowing as the country continues to try and fill the energy shortfall created when it took its nuclear…

Oct 20, 2014 at 17:07

Oil prices (along with prices of many other commodities) have fallen dramatically since last summer. Some observers are waiting to see if Saudi Arabia responds with significant cutbacks in…

Oct 20, 2014 at 16:54

For 4 years now the oil price (Brent) has been range bound between $90 and $130 per barrel (Figure 2). This is where it settled after the convulsions of the…

Oct 20, 2014 at 16:22

Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the US will feel the effects of oil prices in radically different ways.It would be logical…

Oct 20, 2014 at 08:59

One of the biggest trends going in mining has been less exploration.Especially from major firms, who are cutting costs in the face of lower metals prices.But…

Oct 17, 2014 at 18:07

French President Francois Hollande has promised to limit the growth of the country’s nuclear power, many older reactors have been targeted for decommissioning, and Greenpeace and other environmental groups have…

Oct 17, 2014 at 17:58

American utility companies are facing lower-than-average fuel supplies as they begin to stockpile for the winter. Part of the reason is the country’s oil boom. Moving oil by…

Oct 17, 2014 at 17:45

Each winter in Kyrgyzstan the energy situation seems to worsen; blackouts last longer, and officials seem less able to do anything to improve conditions. This year is expected to be…

Oct 17, 2014 at 17:28

New Nature Piece Tells Us What We Already KnewUse of abundant natural gas across the globe will not “discernably reduce fossil…