Andy Tully is a veteran news reporter who is now the news editor for Oilprice.com
A federal judge has ruled that BP is guilty of gross negligence in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.U.S. District Judge…
Researchers at the University of Maryland are reporting new advances in nanoscience that will enable the creation of new nanostructures that could greatly accelerate the…
Halliburton Co. has reached a settlement in U.S. District Court in New Orleans to pay $1.1 billion to resolve most of the claims against it…
Pacemakers have saved the lives of many heart patients, but they need batteries. When a battery runs low, the only option is to replace it…
Scientists estimate that over 1 trillion gallons of water will be needed for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to recover shale gas worldwide over the next…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his government may offer China an opportunity to hold a share in one of the biggest energy projects in Siberia,…
Russian oil giant Rosneft has just bought nearly one-third of the Norway’s North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. (NADL), which wants to do more business with the…
We’ve already seen the news about how researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have recycled dead car batteries to create clean solar power. Now…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) says overall investment in renewable energy will continue to grow through 2020, but at a slower rate than it has…
Geopolitical turmoil, particularly in oil-producing regions, usually means higher retail costs for petroleum products, specifically gasoline.Not so this year. Oil analysts say American drivers taking…
Royal Dutch Shell has begun selling five major oil assets in Nigeria as part of a plan to raise profits and cut $15 billion in…
Governments around the world may be enacting measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the energy industry isn’t on board with those goals, according to…
Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company, has received a new loan from Promsvyazbank to help it weather U.S. and European Union sanctions, and may yet get…
Two major tech investors have plowed $1.5 million into Helion Energy to help it develop a technology that hasn’t worked, despite decades of research and…
The government of Vietnam is sending a senior politburo member to China to help repair relations that were strained over Beijing’s deployment of an oil…
No one has managed to shrink an adult human to a size small enough to travel another person’s circulatory system, but the hardware’s ready, and…
Iran appears to be backpedaling on its recent willingness to cooperate with international nuclear inspections, rebuffing United Nation’s nuclear inspectors who want to return to…
The problem with emission-free hydrogen fuel is that the process of making it is definitely not emission-free. Hydrogen-powered devices-–cars, mostly--run on hydrogen made from natural…
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond continues to insist that the strong future of Scottish oil would provide major support for the country if it achieves…
A British consumer group is warning households to rush out and buy powerful vacuum cleaners before they’re banned throughout Europe.As of Sept. 1, manufacturers will…