Midsize oil producers with solid track records in the Eagle Ford Shale will find it easier to borrow money, an expert said Monday at a series of seminars sponsored by the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.  More »

Makers of an upcoming documentary that seeks to counter the anti-hydraulic fracturing film “Gasland” have raised over $36,000 through crowdsourcing in a matter of a few days.  More »

It was once again my pleasure to bemuse, amuse, and educate an audience at an American Metals Market Conference – this time in Houston – for their Steel & Pipeline Conference this week. After unleashing the Crude oil 8-ball at the last AMM conference, I felt I had to raise the bar this time, so I invented….the ultimate energy board game.  More »

The New Jersey Senate for a second time moved a bill out of committee that would prohibit fracking for natural gas in the most densely populated U.S. state.  More »

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is concentrating on local energy issues as he works his way through natural-gas rich Oklahoma.  More »

Pipelines and foreign corporations spurred a surge in the value of mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry in 2011, marking a new phase in the burgeoning U.S. shale boom, according to a report released Wednesday.  More »

Smelling gas one morning, a southern Pennsylvania farmer almost passed out when he went outside to check on his bellowing cows.  More »

Oversight of drilling and hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on federal land is “erratic and inconsistent” and in a decade led to about $300,000 in fines, according to report released by U.S. House Democrats.  More »

An energy company has announced a new system for treating wastewater from gas wells in eastern Ohio, where a natural gas boom is underway.  More »

Democrats weren’t included in negotiations and were strongly critical of provisions to limit the ability of municipalities to control drilling activity.  More »

The report said the government does little to ensure accountability or protect the environment, even as drilling on federal land has increased in recent years.  More »

Two shareholder activist groups has filed a list of several environmental transparency disclosures on hydraulic fracturing that they want to see included in energy companies’ proxy statements.  More »