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• US Department Of The Interior Cancels 15 Oil And Gas Leases On Sacred Sites

  Published 16 November 2016 | viewed 15,062 times

  15 oil and gas leases that were issued 30 years ago are now in the process of being cancelled. The Department of the Interior made…

• BP Is Reaching Out To Millennials At The Gas Pump

  Published 15 November 2016 | viewed 5,926 times

  Checked in on Facebook lately from the gas pump? You soon might. It probably does people a bit of good to spend a few minutes…

• After A String Of Setbacks, The Giant Kashagan Field Is Showing Results

  Published 14 November 2016 | viewed 8,739 times

  After a rough start, the blood sweat and tears poured into the Kazakhstan's Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea are starting to show some…

• Boone Pickens On Natural Gas: It’s The Way To Defeat OPEC

  Published 06 November 2016 | viewed 39,854 times

  One way or the other, the world will eventually be forced on to cleaner fuels for its vehicles, so says Bruce Pile, who runs the…

• Obama Aims To Defuse Dakota Access Conflict

  Published 02 November 2016 | viewed 7,552 times

  In an effort to de-escalate the tense situation unfolding over the Dakota Access Pipeline Project, President Obama said on Tuesday that the White House is…

• Oil Tanker Explosion In Pakistan Kills 11

  Published 01 November 2016 | viewed 10,667 times

  The number of casualties resulting from a series of explosions at a ship-breaking yard in Gadani, Pakistan, was up to 11 on Tuesday morning. While…

• Angola’s Supreme Court Would Like A Word With The Country’s President On Oil

  Published 26 October 2016 | viewed 15,365 times

  On the face of things, it would only seem to make sense that the president of a nation would appoint a smart, savvy businessperson to…

• Egypt Wants Inquiry Into Suspended Saudi Oil Shipments

  Published 24 October 2016 | viewed 11,436 times

  The Energy Committee of the Egyptian Parliament plans to contact its Ministry of Petroleum to get to the bottom of why the petroleum shipment from…

• Iran Proving To Be Its Own Worst Enemy For Oil Development

  Published 21 October 2016 | viewed 22,229 times

  Despite Iran’s efforts to re-enter the oil market, and amid promises two years ago by the country to open up the industry to foreign market…

• Nigerian Military Moves Against Militants In The Niger Delta

  Published 20 October 2016 | viewed 7,310 times

  In the wake of negotiations and strikes by militants against oil companies and their infrastructure in the Niger Delta region, The Nigerian Navy has made…

• U.S. Ease On Cuban Sanctions To Benefit Foreign Oil Producers

  Published 18 October 2016 | viewed 7,049 times

  Last week, Barack Obama issued a policy directive on easing sanctions and normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba, reiterating his 2014 call to…

• Total Finds Gas In North Sea

  Published 18 October 2016 | viewed 8,360 times

  Natural gas has been discovered in a part of the North Sea—an area that up until now, had slim chances of containing reserves. Norway’s energy…

• A New Film Sheds Light On Oil Development In Ecuador

  Published 13 October 2016 | viewed 7,636 times

  The question of resource development versus conservation is not a new one. And depending on where one lives, it may be a question that comes…

• The Energy Celebrity That Rose From The Presidential Debate

  Published 12 October 2016 | viewed 9,691 times

  The U.S. has quite the penchant for creating celebrities. The manufactured stars that we already have at our disposal are never enough. Like Rice Krispie…

• Are U.S. Oil Assets Too Expensive For Oil Traders?

  Published 11 October 2016 | viewed 7,287 times

  Physical oil assets in the United States may have become so expensive that they are no longer appetizing for entities that may have at one…

• U.S. Oil industry Sees No Job Losses For The First Time In Two Years

  Published 07 October 2016 | viewed 13,050 times

  After almost two years of seeing jobs disappear, energy companies saw some good news emerge last month as the job rate remained steady in the…

• Saudi Aramco IPO Will Not Be Limited To Downstream Operations

  Published 06 October 2016 | viewed 6,241 times

  Saudi Arabian Oil Company, or Saudi Aramco, is gearing up to go public, and according to a chief executive officer Amin Nasser, the initial public…

• New Wiki-Leak To Put Oil In The Spotlights

  Published 04 October 2016 | viewed 32,009 times

  The world is waiting on the newest release of information by Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, who has announced that over the next ten days, he…

• Nigeria’s NatGas Shortages Increase Coal Demand

  Published 29 September 2016 | viewed 6,198 times

  Natural gas shortages and a desire to lower costs have led to a decision by Dangote Concrete in Nigeria to switch from natural gas to…

• The Islamic State Loses Control Of Iraqi Oil Fields

  Published 29 September 2016 | viewed 19,326 times

  The Islamic State will have to turn to other means to finance terror activities now that it no longer controls oil wells in Iraq. Iraq’s…