Andy Tully is a veteran news reporter who is now the news editor for Oilprice.com
The energy industry has been quick to criticize the Obama Administration’s proposed regulations for exploratory drilling in the US Arctic Ocean, calling them “unnecessarily burdensome.”…
Fifteen refineries in the United States are now the targets of a strike by the United Steelworkers (USW) after the union and the principal management…
A group of 20 Senate Republicans and one Democrat is urging the US government to resume crude oil exports to Mexico, ending a four-decade ban.…
Russia says it has begun supplying gas to the war-ravaged area of eastern Ukraine, now that the government in Kiev says it can no longer…
Investment guru Warren Buffett got rid of his entire $3.7 billion holding in Exxon Mobil Corp. in the fourth quarter of 2014, evidently influenced by…
So what do you do when a wealthy nation imposes sanctions on your chief – perhaps only – industry? In the case of Russia, the…
For OPEC and the rest of the global oil industry, the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel is at least 15 years away.…
Nearly a decade has passed since Uganda discovered it had oil to offer the world, but finally it’s struck a deal with a consortium of…
The International Energy Agency (IEA), which advises 29 industrialized countries on energy policy, has for the first time chosen one of its own to be…
Rolls-Royce, the British engineering concern, has become the latest company to be linked to the web of corruption at Petroleos Brasiliero, or Petrobras, Brazil’s semi-public…
A federal judge in New Orleans has rejected a lawsuit that sought billions of dollars from energy companies for their role in eroding Louisiana’s coast,…
“The Internet of Things” is supposed to involve just about everything, but right now it’s fairly limited to remotely connecting people to devices such as…
No sooner had the International Monetary Fund (IMF) extended $17.5 billion over four years in new credit to Ukraine, Russia’s private gas giant Gazprom was…
It was as recently as Jan. 21 that Patrick Pouaynné, the CEO of Total, conceded that low oil prices had forced the French oil giant…
Republicans have passed a bill approving the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a measure that President Obama has promised to veto – not because…
The relentless drop in oil prices has forced many energy companies to cut back, sometimes drastically, on capital spending. But few if any of these…
Russia is seeking observer status in OPEC, but the CEO of Rosneft, its largest oil company, said there is no chance that Moscow would want…
The International Energy Agency says the price of crude, which plunged since June, will end fairly soon, but cautions oil producers that they won’t see…
Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which suffered three reactor meltdowns from an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, can’t be decommissioned until its ruined reactors…
There could be a danger for OPEC if demand for its oil rises in 2015. The price could rebound to a level where US shale…