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London-based Ceona in May was awarded a new deepwater contract in the Gulf of Mexico with Houston-based Bennu Oil & ...

W&T Offshore Inc. in May made a new discovery at Ewing Banks 910 with the successful drilling and evaluation of ...

Kansas City Southern subsidiary Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR), has reached an agreement with Sasol Chemicals for the construction ...

FERC informed stakeholders in a May 20 notice in the Federal Register that Sabine Pass LNG filed an application for ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has determined that approval of the Lake Charles Liquefaction Project would have some adverse ...

Lynn Bourdon, president and CEO of Oklahoma City-based Enable Midstream’s general partner, Enable GP, in early June resigned from the ...

Lafayette, La.-based PetroQuest Energy Inc. in June closed the sale of the majority of its interests in the Woodford and ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in June signed legislation that authorized $4.47 million in funding for the TexNet seismic monitoring program, ...

FERC Commissioner Philip Moeller on June 17 said that more natural gas pipeline will be needed to meet the scenario ...

Although the technology of Rapid Prototyping (RP) was born at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it's found a home ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) during a June 9 U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee hearing on energy accountability and ...

Covington, La.-based LLOG Exploration, and its partners Ridgewood Energy and Stone Energy, successfully drilled an exploration test at the Viosca Knoll ...

The Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association (OKOGA) fully expects Gov. Mary Fallin to sign a bill that prohibits Oklahoma municipalities ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on May 18 signed House Bill (HB) 40, an act relating to the exclusive jurisdiction of ...

The Oil and Gas Production and Distribution Reform Act (S. 1210) is “a step in the right direction toward streamlining ...

Texas Commissioners Christi Craddick and David Porter have called for hearings to review the status of the permits for two ...

ONEOK Partners subsidiary ONEOK Storage and Fermaca RR Holdings have filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ...

Letter from the Publisher We saw several important and positive headlines since our last issue.  WTI Crude has settled in ...

Innovative technologies applied all along the oil and gas supply chain have dramatically changed the industry over the past decade, ...

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell in March released final standards for hydraulic fracturing on public and American Indian lands. ...

After the U.S. Senate in early March failed to override President Obama’s veto of legislation that would have approved TransCanada’s ...

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), joined ...

Nancy Hodur, a researcher with North Dakota State University’s Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department, has co-authored several major industry studies ...

Sustained momentum from the U.S. shale play pushed oil and gas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity to a ten year ...

While the oil and gas industry may fluctuate, the presence of drilling waste remains consistent – as does the need ...

Take your pick as to the reason why the Keystone XL pipeline is necessary for the future of the U.S. ...

Forty years ago, in the spring of 1974, a group of oilmen and business leaders came together in Tulsa to ...

Speaking with a mentor about this article, he was concerned about the relevance. “Josh,” he said to me, “everything in ...

Lynn Helms is considered North Dakota’s top regulator, serving as director of the North Dakota Industrial Commission Oil and Gas ...

The audience for CRUDE cartoons is growing more all the time. The cartoon CRUDE can not only be seen in ...

ABB has introduced the Tropos 6420-XA, a fourth-generation outdoor broadband mesh router that is an oil well pad communications hub ...

BP has agreed to use Schlumberger’s Petrel E&P software platform to support BP’s new digital technology roll out. The first ...

Mtelligence Corp. (Mtell) and MapR Technologies Inc. have released a big data platform, called Mtell Reservoir, which uses the MapR ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Office of Enforcement Division of Energy Market Oversight presented the 2014 State of the ...

Jericho Oil Corp. has closed on its previously announced acquisition of a 50% working interest in 1,850 acres in northeastern ...

A wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has exercised its option to purchase a 20% equity interest in Saddlehorn ...

Sanchez Production Partners (SPP) has engaged Lantana Energy Advisors to assist with the possible divestiture of SPP’s assets and operations ...

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s (OCC) Oil and Gas Conservation Division (OGCD) has issued new directives to disposal well operators in ...

Chesapeake Energy has reduced its 2015 capital budget to $3.5 billion to $4.0 billion for 2015, which is a $500 ...

Independence Resources Management plans to use a $500 million investment to focus on activity in the Anadarko Basin. Warburg Pincus, ...

The members of the Railroad Commission of Texas in early March provided invited testimony on U.S. trade policy and its ...

The Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) in February reported that the Texas oil and natural gas industry paid a ...

Texas LNG in March asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to initiate a National Environmental Policy Act pre-filing review of ...

Rangeland Energy has executed a long-term agreement with a subsidiary of Delek US Holdings to be an anchor shipper of ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on April 1, in accordance with a March 20 FERC order issuing a Presidential ...

Angelo State University (ASU) received a $116,500 gift from Shell Oil Exploration and Production to fund a rangeland reclamation research ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held an oil and gas lease sale in ...