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Bi-partisan efforts have yielded great strides with the passing of oil and gas bill H.R. 702 on Sept. 17. This ...

Homes and businesses throughout Oklahoma are feeling the effects of daily tremors likely due to the process of oil and ...

With the plunge in global oil prices expected to continue and a crude oil oversupply in the U.S., companies including ...

Letter from the Publisher In researching this issue it was amazing to see how the oil and gas industry has ...

Industry and regulators took significant steps over the summer in the ongoing effort to bolster oil and gas pipeline safety ...

The American Petroleum Institute (API) in comments submitted to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) cautioned that the ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan: Final Rule released on Aug. 3. EPA’s final rule establishes interim and final ...

The U.S. oil market took a drastic fall in November 2014 due to a very specific reason. The Organization of ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on July 29 issued a final rule to prevent unattended trains that carry crude; ethanol; ...

LWCC Loss Prevention Outreach Coordinator Richard Perkins assists Twin Brothers Marine employees as they update their safety training. The center ...

Brian Lash founded The Target Companies in his college dorm room in 1978. Today, Lash serves as a consultant to ...

The International Society of The Energy Advocates, “The Energy Advocates,” was founded in 1974, by a group of American oil ...

The Big Data train is full and is pulling out of the station. If you hurry, the folks on the ...

When it comes to intellectual property in oil and gas, arguably the most protected and coveted piece of information isn’t ...

The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on July 22 introduced the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015, ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in July and August initiated environmental reviews for four liquefaction projects based in Texas. ...

America Resources Exploration on Aug. 13 said it acquired a fractional interest in two wells located in Shelby County, Texas. ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in an Aug. 7 notice in the Federal Register said it plans to prepare ...

Texas Railroad Commission Chairman David Porter on July 8 testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee on the ...

So, you’re an oil and gas product or service provider that’s decided exhibiting is a cost-effective way to increase sales in a ...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy (DOE-FE) recently granted G2 LNG long-term, multi-contract authorization to export LNG ...

Mid-Con Energy Partners in 2Q15 saw “some of the most severe flooding” the company has ever experienced in many of ...

Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. subsidiary Magnolia LNG on July 23 signed an agreement with Meridian LNG for firm capacity rights ...

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s (OCC) Oil and Gas Conservation Division (OGCD) on July 17 said it has expanded the areas of ...

Someone once told me your enemies are not your competitors down the street underbidding you. Your enemies are your employees. ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), in a July 17 notice in the Federal Register, said it has issued ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Water Rule: Definition of “Waters of the United States” affects the oil and ...

Safety materials co-developed by the Texas Oil & Gas Association (TxOGA), Texas Mutual, the National Institute for Occupational Safety (NIOSH), ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on July 2 published in the Federal Register notice of the application by Gulf ...

Letter from the Publisher It looks as though I’ve become addicted to trying to figure out how the United States ...

Offshore oil and gas exploration and production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico are standing up to the oil price ...

On April 13, almost five years since the April 20, 2010, BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, the Bureau ...

Jason Spiess: Looking back at 2014, with all the activity in the Bakken with their wet gas, the infrastructure in ...

Fixed platforms, tension leg platforms, spar platforms, drill boats, jack-up rigs and countless other contrivances are used in oil exploration ...

Information and technology are key components of success in the oil and gas industries. Being able to assimilate and manage ...

The oil and gas industry has a storied history in the state of Louisiana. Over the last 100 years, the ...

Traditionally, data acquisition in the oil and gas industry has been a cost center and not a revenue-generating asset for ...

From 2003 to 2009, I had the honor of serving as president of The International Society of The Energy Advocates. ...

If you haven’t been in the market yet this year – and judging by the amount of completed acquisitions there ...

While most people are familiar with my night job as the cartoonist for CRUDE Calendars, the majority of my connections ...

The Williston Basin Petroleum Conference takes place in Saskatchewan and North Dakota on alternating years, and is co-hosted by the ...

Delfin LNG in May submitted an application to the Maritime Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard to construct, own and ...

Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, in mid-May testified in support of legislation proposed by Rep. Tom ...