Andy Tully is a veteran news reporter who is now the news editor for Oilprice.com
Probably without realizing it at the time, ConocoPhillips Corp. created what has become a prosperous energy company in 2012 by spinning off Phillips 66 into…
The price of crude oil needn’t be as low as it is today – in the neighborhood of $50 per barrel – except that OPEC…
A panel of Scotland’s leading engineers says an “irrational” plan by the country’s government to shut down more than half of its electricity generating capacity…
Australia’s new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, may not see widespread nuclear energy in his country’s future, but isn’t shutting the door on the industry altogether.Turnbull,…
It’s not news that the drop in oil prices has had a double-edged effect; hurting energy companies’ bottom lines but blessing motorists with less-expensive gasoline.…
Imagine a lightweight battery that can be any size or shape imaginable, that’s economical and environmentally friendly to make and to use, that charges faster…
Is the huge drop in third-quarter earnings at Britain’s BP an example of the old saw “the bigger they are, the harder they fall”? Or…
Relations between Turkey and Russia had been warming during most of 2015 as their two leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, very publicly discussed…
The U.S. power-generating giant Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) will add about 1 million gas customers to the 7.3 million it already serves once it closes…
Petroleo Brasileiro, or Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, will sell its minority share in a gas distribution concern to the Japanese petrochemical trading firm Mitsui…
Not only is China investing generously in Britain’s nuclear power industry, but BP, the giant British energy company, plans to expand on its investment in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, from the start, expressed vehement opposition to any deal that would release Iran from crippling economic sanctions in exchange…
ExxonMobil Corp. is condemning reports by two news organizations that the energy giant deliberately played down the impact of fossil fuels on the Earth’s climate,…
When you think of hybrid, you think of cars that rely on batteries as well as gasoline, which can greatly help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.…
Kinder Morgan has agreed to buy 15 fuel storage terminals from BP for $350 million in a deal that will help the British energy giant…
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s four-day visit to London was marked by pomp and pageantry, but even more important than the visuals was a deal he…
Defective windshield wipers, leaky battery cooling pumps, misaligned latches, and general squeaks and rattles. All these and more plague the latest Tesla Model S, prompting…
So far, the news from Iran has been that it can quickly return oil exports to their old levels once international sanctions are lifted, but…
OPEC’s strategy of keeping oil prices low appears to be having the cartel’s desired effect, at least on oilfield services companies such as Halliburton Co.…
Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. (COS) is urging its shareholders to turn down a hostile takeover offer by Suncor Energy Inc. (SU) to buy the company,…