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On Wednesday, the proposed merger of the No. 2 and No. 3 oilfield services firms was derailed again by the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on Monday released a report on seismic activity to update the agency’s 50-year seismicity projections. ...

Officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) along with representatives from the North Texas Exploration & Production Safety ...

A new study has revealed that the recent increase in oil and natural gas production in the U.S. has not ...

Less than 48 hours after opening briefs were filed in federal court by four Western states, oil and gas trade ...

Two highly-anticipated court decisions regarding endangered species were announced this week scoring big wins for not only the oil and ...

Letter from the Publisher For the better part of 18 months our industry has been reeling from the complete tank ...

With no relief in sight for the price of oil, the oil and gas industry in 2016 is facing an ...

Whether you are a seasoned business development officer, or you are a VP of a sales team, you are always ...

November 2014 brought about many changes for the oil and gas way of life. For starters, the price for a ...

Energy issues have not been discussed very much in any of the debates – Democratic or Republican – during the ...

The article Bear Strategies: Acquisitions – Oilman Nov/Dec 2015 – was a comprehensive look at acquiring operated or non-operated assets ...

Loren C. Scott is one of the 32-member National Business Economic Issues Council, which meets quarterly to discuss issues of ...

As of this writing, Leonardo DiCaprio, American movie actor, had recently addressed the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland proclaiming ...

U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Member Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) in February joined the American Petroleum Institute (API) to launch ...

The price for crude oil in 2016 is forecast to be lower than in 2016, Adam Sieminski, Administrator of the ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Feb. 3 released an environmental assessment for the Northern Supply Access Project, which ...

Swift Energy Co. in early February received approval from a U.S. bankruptcy judge to sell its oil and gas assets ...

Gulf Coast Western in January said its subsidiary, Orbit Gulf Coast Exploration, has acquired substantially all of the assets of ...

MVP Holdings said on Feb. 1 that it has acquired the Great Salt Plains Pipeline. The company said the transaction, ...

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar in early February kicked off his “Good for Texas Talks” series by visiting with former Texas ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has revised the release date on an environmental impact statement (EIS) for Golden Pass ...

Fort Worth, Texas-based Black Mountain Oil & Gas in February announced it closed a $150 million equity commitment from Natural ...

Cheniere Energy Partners said that a tanker ship holding the first liquefied natural gas export shipment from the Sabine Pass ...

Reporting a 1Q16 net loss of $2.8 million, or $0.17 per share, compared to net income of $10.2 million, or ...

On Feb. 9, President Barack Obama released a $4.1 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2017 that calls for oil ...

Krewe Energy, LLC, a Covington, La.-based independent oil and gas exploration company has completed a 100% acquisition of Castex Energy’s ...

Devon Energy announced plans to layoff workers in the coming months. The company’s CEO Dave Hager made the announcement during ...

With an estimated worth of more than $10 trillion, state-owned Saudi Armco, considered the most valuable company in the world, ...

Just two weeks after the U.S. government lifted the 40-year-old oil export ban, ConocoPhillips and NuStar Energy LP set sail ...

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s Oil and Gas Conservation Division (OGCD) has called for disposal wells injecting into the Arbuckle formation ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently increased its assessment of the undiscovered, technically recoverable shale gas resource in the Mississippian ...

Letter from the Publisher The price of oil has been like a bad business partner who’s been on vacation all ...

Geopolitical and terror risk is likely to be a growing issue for oil markets over the next several years, Jamie ...

Oil is a closely watched commodity, and when its price moves, whole industries and whole economies can be shaped and ...

Every day it seems I hear about how this never-ending oil slump is affecting major corporations worth millions of dollars. ...

The collapse of crude oil prices has created massive layoffs in the exploration and production sector of the industry, but ...

North Dakota State University President Dean Bresciani is very familiar with energy plays and boom-bust cycles. His previous experiences in ...

Tort reform cannot be defined by one law or thought pattern. Tort reform is a coupling of laws and ideas ...

As I drove into Dickinson, taking a moment to soak in the event I was about to experience, I noticed ...

President Barack Obama on Dec. 4 signed into law H.R. 22, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which authorizes ...

Sabine Pass Liquefaction on Nov. 18 submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) an application to site, construct and ...

Louisiana voters in late November elected a new attorney general with a background in the oil and gas industry. Jeff ...