Oil & Gas News

H alliburton Co , the world's No.2 oilfield services provider, expects margins to improve in North America after being depressed for two years as companies step up spending to drill and complete wells.

This time, the energy law firm is moving from a 17,000-square-foot office at the first phase of Southpointe into a new 23,400-square-foot office above the retail town square at Southpointe II, a location that will put the firm close to established oil and gas clients such as Range Resources Corp. and Noble Energy Inc. , whose offices are in walking ... (more)

Allowing an oilsands company to resume operations in an area where it is still trying to fix persistent bitumen leaks is undermining the credibility of Alberta's energy regulator, says an environmental group.

That was the day when, in the heat of the election campaign, NDP leader Adrian Dix announced in Kamloops that he doesn't support the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline to its Burnaby terminal, because Vancouver shouldn't become a "major oil port."

Oil Search says its key PNG liquefied natural gas project will deliver its first cargo a few months ahead of schedule.

Port Director Mark McAndrews tells The Sun Herald the money will be used to upgrade an under-utilized wharf so that it will be able to handle liquid bulk cargo for a new shipper.

TransCanada Corp. says its customers are still "100 per cent" behind its proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, despite dimming prospects that shovels will be hitting the ground any time soon.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says the latest delay in a decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is a major blow to Canada's energy industry.

When a city like Carson, home to one large oil refinery and next-door neighbor to another, hard by the junction of two major freeways and site of both a Cal State campus and a Major League Soccer stadium, slaps a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing because of environmental questions, you know fracking of California's vast oil and gas reserves is no ... (more)

A bill to increase fines on the oil and gas industry is on its way to the Colorado Senate after the state House gave it final approval Monday.

The Supreme Court has declined to disturb a $105 million verdict against Exxon Mobil for contaminating New York City's groundwater.

Halliburton sells services to companies that drill for oil and natural gas, including helping them with hydraulic fracturing, a method of breaking up underground shale rock formations to release trapped gas.

In this April 15, 2009, file photo, the Halliburton sign adorns the side of a machine being used by the company at a site for natural-gas producer Williams in Rulison, Colo.

Amazon is deliberately targeting the iPad Mini, iPad, and Galaxy Tab with timely price-cuts.

An electrician at the Suncor Energy oilsands site in northern Alberta is dead after being severely injured on the job Sunday morning.

SB138, from Gov. Sean Parnell, would set state participation at about 25 percent in a project also being pursued TransCanada, the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., and the North Slope's major players.

Two successful lower TMS wells in a row validate the management's assertion that the modified well design is effective.

The nationwide shale boom has greatly imports since the $1.1 billion Gulf LNG terminal opened near the Bayou Casotte Ship Channel.

After early complaints that out-of-state firms got the most jobs, some local construction trade workers and union members in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia say they're now benefiting in a big way from the Marcellus and Utica Shale oil and gas boom.

Supporters of the oil and gas industry are urging a three-member, governor-appointed task force to avoid jumping to conclusions in its study of whether man-made activity is causing a rise in earthquakes across south-central Kansas.