If you pay attention to oil and gas – and in Houston, a lot of people do – you probably already know about OTC and CERAWeek.  More »

A western North Dakota legislator says the state’s increased oil production shouldn’t all be exported.  More »

Azerbaijan’s top energy official urged further scrutiny of the international consortium developing the Caspian Sea nation’s main oil field amid mounting irritation at a slump in output.  More »

Unchecked corrosion, the suspected culprit in the August blaze that destroyed part of Chevron’s Richmond refinery, was responsible for another fire at the plant last year that prompted workers to complain to regulators that the company was ignoring the problem, according to state inspection documents obtained by The San Francisco Chronicle.  More »

Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson says the Keystone XL Pipeline protestors are “eco-anarchists.”  More »

Already a political punching bag nationally in this election season, TransCanada Corp.’s pipeline has become a legal football as well, caught up in a series of arcane rulings that have upended the decades-old process for how energy companies in Texas seize land for pipelines. It’s a case that pits Texas’ long-held belief in the sanctity of private property against its favorite industry.  More »

After months of insistence from natural gas producers that methane leaks are not a concern, nine energy companies are supporting research that may prove the opposite.  More »

The Coast Guard ordered BP and Transocean to find the source of oil discovered on the Gulf of Mexico surface in September.  More »

A deluge of comments from food producers, specifically employees of Tyson Foods, poured into the federal government in recent days as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers whether to waive regulations that may impact grain prices.  More »

Worldwide fuel demand is projected to gain 1.2 percent annually to 95.7 million barrels a day in 2017, from 89 million last year, the Paris-based energy adviser said in its medium term oil market report.  More »

A paper by a group of economic graduates from Yale University, published this month in Oil & Gas Investor estimated that consumers saved $100 billion a year in 2011.  More »

Gas may reach $4 per million British thermal units for the first time since September 2011 as winter heating demand picks up after mild weather a year ago, according to Mizuho Securities USA Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Prices have jumped 8.7 percent to $3.488 since July as electricity generators used record amounts of the fuel.  More »