Andy Tully is a veteran news reporter who is now the news editor for Oilprice.com
Thanks to increased production of North American gas and new regulations limiting the use of coal, electric power generation in the United States now relies…
British Columbia's Legislature is debating whether to accede to the provincial government and allow a C$36 billion deal to build a liquid natural gas (LNG)…
Wind power is often criticized for its intermittency: since the wind does not always blow, how can it power a modern industrial economy? One country…
Iran and six major world powers have reached a historic deal that would limit Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for a lifting of crippling economic…
Whatever negotiators come up with in the talks with Iran over its nuclear program, a consensus seems developing that any lifting of sanctions would mean…
A judge in New Jersey is considering whether to allow environmentalists and a state legislator to take part in deciding how much Exxon Mobil Corp.…
Gazprom’s decision to back out of $2.6 billion contract with the Italian oilfield services company Saipem to build a section of the proposed Turkish Stream…
The decision by Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil producer, to buy 49 percent of India’s Essar Oil demonstrates Moscow’s determination to fight Saudi Arabia for market…
If you’re an oil state needing to generate heat to help extract heavy crude, you use the oil or gas that you’ve already got to…
Statoil, the Norwegian oil and gas giant, is considering taking a major role in wind power. The state-owned energy company said July 7 that it…
The semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq has escalated its direct oil sales beyond what’s permitted by an agreement with Baghdad in order…
OPEC is exceeding its self-imposed limits of 30 million barrels per day (mb/d), with June output reaching 31.28 mb/d, according to a survey by Platts,…
It’s been a lot of work, but Royal Dutch Shell managed to overcome virtually all the obstacles thrown in its path as it moves towards…
Eni, Italy’s energy giant, and Repsol of Spain have begun production at the Perla gas field off the coast of Venezuela, the largest known offshore…
While not predicting that Tehran and six world powers will strike a deal by the July 7 deadline, a senior Iranian oil official says his…
India is becoming increasingly interested in Canadian oil in its effort to reduce energy dependence on the Middle East, and Canada is interested in India…
The European Union is urging Moscow to resume negotiations quickly in an effort to resolve its latest pricing dispute with Kiev that has suspended gas…
Despite the non-stop concern about Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis, there’s at least one bit of good news: Its Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has managed to…
It seems that the news stemming from the investigation into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been consistently bad for…
British energy giant BP announced July 2 it has reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. government and five states along the Gulf of Mexico…