Oil & Gas News

Premier Kathy Dunderdale opened Noia's annual conference with a speech to delegates at the St. John's Convention Centre Tuesday.

Women may have better odds of getting a membership at Augusta National Golf Club than becoming the chief executive officer of an energy company in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

California would nearly triple the number of oil refinery safety inspectors under a proposal on the governor's desk that backers say would help close regulatory gaps that federal investigators found played a role in the fire at Chevron's Richmond refinery last year.

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Chevron becomes the second major US energy company to sign an oil exploration deal with Iraq's Kurdish regional government, following Exxon Mobil into the region.

Duke Energy Corp has turned to an insider, Chief Financial Officer Lynn Good, to take over as chief executive when Jim Rogers steps down as part of a regulatory settlement linked to its $18 billion takeover of Progress Energy.

Premier Kathy Dunderdale kicked off this week's Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industries Association oil and gas conference with a call for oil and gas exploration.

The Russian private investment firm Alfa Group is likely to invest about $10bn in oil and gas projects over the next five years through its investment vehicle L1 Energy that will be advised by former BP CEO Lord Browne.

Canada will be vulnerable to economic disaster should the Northern Gateway pipeline be rejected, the proponent told a federal review panel Monday as the final phase of public hearings got underway.

Past chair of the board of the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industries Association and chair of the organizing committee for this year's Noia conference, Mike Critch of NSB Energy, is seen at last year's Noia conference.

U.S. antitrust regulators have given oil refiner Tesoro Corp and its logistics subsidiary approval to buy Northwest Products Pipeline system and related assets from Chevron Corp, on the condition that its sells a petroleum terminal in Boise, Idaho, the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.

Gezzetta Campbell, Bettye Stein and Trecia Smith, all with Unum, and Deputy Chief Chris Adams and Capt.

The Rapid City Police Department is launching a pedestrian safety campaign to try to decrease the number of pedestrian-related injuries in the Black Hills community.

Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corp has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, court documents showed on Monday, with rival retailer Lowe's Companies set to buy the majority of its assets for $205 million in cash.

Two Israeli energy firms intent upon exploring new underwater natural gas prospects west of Hadera signed a joint operating agreement with an Italian partner on Thursday - signifying the official entrance of a second major international gas developer into Israel's Mediterranean waters.

Kristiansund is the centre for servicing a number of offshore installations and the move has been welcomed by the oil and gas industry.

The proponent and opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make their final pitches to a federal review panel starting Monday, at the last set of hearings before the panel issues its decision.

The head of an influential charity is being criticized for his ties to the oil and gas industry, but some experts say the allegations are misguided.

Manufacturers need five years to ramp up domestic plants being built to take advantage of America's glut of cheap shale gas, according to a Dow Chemical executive, and the country should be careful not to undercut them by depleting that supply with exports.

As thousands of barrels of oil leaked into a Mayflower neighborhood on March 29th, was ExxonMobil too slow to respond? That is the question raised by new documents released by a Congressman Ed Markey who as a ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee is investigating the spill.