Oil & Gas News

Attorneys for a major oil drilling business say a federal lawsuit accusing the company of failing to pay overtime to workers in the North Dakota oil patch should be thrown out, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

A federal-review-panel report on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline will be released this week, following more than a year of hearings throughout B.C. and Alberta.

Encana Corp, Canada's largest natural gas producer, said on Tuesday it has hired marine services company SBM Offshore to operate the Deep Panuke platform off the coast of Nova Scotia.

A jury has returned to a New Orleans courthouse for a second day of deliberations in the trial of a former BP engineer charged with trying to obstruct a federal probe of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf... A jury has returned to a New Orleans courthouse for a second day of deliberations in the trial of a former BP engineer charged with ... (more)

The biggest oil and gas projects have become much more costly, complex and unpredictable, outpacing growth in financial firepower among the tiny handful of companies with the ability to develop them.

"We are here because we have a refinery safety problem in the United States," said the chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board , Rafael Moure-Eraso , in introducing his agency's draft report on the blaze that sent clouds of smoke through the region on Aug. 6, 2012, prompting more than 15,000 people complaining of breathing problems to go to ... (more)

The Chinese government has detained two more senior executives of China National Petroleum Company as part of a wider graft investigation into the state energy giant, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Texan oil giant Anadarko's environmental credentials and the future of its New Zealand offshore exploration programme are being questioned as the company faces a US toxic site cleanup and compensation claim which could reach US$14 billion .

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP filed an application with Canadian regulators on Monday to nearly treble the capacity of its Trans Mountain crude oil pipeline to 890,000 barrels per day.

Houston-based Harvest Natural is selling all of its interests in the South American country through an agreement with Petroandina Resources Corp. NV and Pluspetrol Resources Corp. BV.

Poland's oil and gas group PGNiG says it has signed a memorandum of co-operation with Chevron to explore for shale gas in the southeast of the country.

Potential for dual-horizon development has been an important emerging theme in the Eagle Ford Shale play.

CST Brands Inc., which owns the Corner Store and Depanneur du Coin convenience store brands, is now officially a separate company from Valero Energy Corp. San Antonio-based CST Brands is now the second-largest publicly traded fuel and convenience store retailer in North America.

Welders for Dallas-based Trinity Industries work on a crude oil tank car at the company's plant in Saginaw.

Out of all the six oil supermajors in the world, Total SA is probably the one I think about the least.

A court ruling that holds Kerr-McGee Corp liable for billions of dollars in environmental cleanup costs brought to a close a months-long trial over its spinoff of Tronox Inc, a paint materials maker that later went bankrupt.

ROME: Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino will travel to Tehran on December 21-22, the foreign ministry in Rome said, announcing what will be a rare visit by a senior European official to the Islamic republic.

Since its peak in 1988, Alaskan oil production has been in a freefall. Overall, daily production has gone from 2.1 million barrels to just 526,000 last year.

TransCanada wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline to bring Canadian crude oil to refineries on the U.S. Gulf coast.

CARA OWSLEY/SUN HERALD/2003University of Southern Mississippi graduate student Lynee Burleigh helps excavate the Moran Art Studio site in Biloxi.