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Exxon Mobil Corp.'s massive footprint north of Houston is going to be even larger - and a portion of it will be tax free.

Corry Micronics' Safe-Guard is an RF switch designed for use in the oil and gas industry.

That's the message from analysts at Simmons and Co., an outfit specialized in the energy industry.

Talisman Energy Inc. said Tuesday it has reached a deal to sell its stake in a Colombian pipeline for about US$595 million, in an ongoing effort to better focus its operations.

Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman says competition is about to heat up in the domestic gas market in Western Australia.

WOODSIDE Petroleum is trying to sell gas from its proposed Browse project to Japan, only months after deciding to process the gas offshore.

Kinross Gold Corp. . Miner. Up three cents, or 0.62 per cent, at $4.86 on 5.04 million shares.

Prosecutors charged the company with paying more than $6 million in bribes, in violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Spokesman Shawn Howard says the company began filling the US$2.3-billion line with oil Saturday morning in Cushing, Okla.

The crew of the GSF Grand Banks are being commended by the rig owner for their work in handling the semi-submersible, after the rig lost its tow and spent two unplanned days on its own in the North Atlantic last week.

Energy companies trying to raise almost $50 billion for Canada's first network of natural gas export terminals will face an even more basic challenge: finding the workers to build them.

Residents of La Vega, Guatemala, try out the new well, constructed last year with the help of a team of Fort Wayne City Utilities volunteers.

Cairn India Ltd., the nation's biggest onshore crude oil producer, is proposing swap deals in the commodity to help skirt the government's ban on exports that yield higher margins.

Kate Carr, Chairperson of Safe Kids Worldwide, Dr Khalid Abdulnoor Saifeldeen, Director of Hamad International Training Centre and Chairman of the Kulluna Safety Campaign, and Gary Sykes, President of ConocoPhillips Qatar, during a press conference at HITC yesterday.

While natural gas isn't the hot commodity it once was, it still has the potential to fuel a rise to the top for natural gas stocks in 2014.

Oil production in America is booming. We're producing more oil than we have in nearly two decades.

Louisiana's economy is under attack. The oil and gas industry has been the significant driver in our state's economy for more than 100 years.

The oil and gas industry set another activity record last month - the fourth in a row - as the Texas Petro Index reached an historic high of 293.7. Even though natural gas production declined slightly this year , crude oil increased an incredible 20.8 percent and employment is up almost 60,000 jobs over the previous record set in 2008.

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh named the seven in order: Total of France, Royal Dutch Shell, Italy's ENI, Norway's Statoil, Britain's BP and US companies Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips .

Local communities that are involved in fracking of natural gas should get the greatest say whether or not such methods of gas extraction are safe, Adam Briggle, a professor at the University of North Texas and an environmental activist, told RT.