Given all the disclosures bombarding Chesapeake Energy investors in recent weeks, basketball may be the farthest thing from their minds, but the company’s liabilities extend, literally, in the arena of professional sports.  More »

Given all the disclosures bombarding Chesapeake Energy investors in recent weeks, basketball may be the farthest thing from their minds, but the company’s liabilities extend, literally, in the arena of professional sports.  More »

Chesapeake Energy’s best hope for survival, at least for the near future, may be the same muddled financial structure that has led to the company’s unraveling.  More »

Hydraulic fracturing, the drilling process that releases oil and natural gas from deep inside shale formations, has sparked a boom in the U.S. and a glut of natural gas that has driven prices to their lowest in a decade.  More »

Hydraulic fracturing, the drilling process that releases oil and natural gas from deep inside shale formations, has sparked a boom in the U.S. and a glut of natural gas that has driven prices to their lowest in a decade. While there’s been a lot of talk about exporting fracking techniques to other parts of the [...]  More »

The Offshore Technology Conference is like a big choir with a rotating roster of preachers. Few sour notes are heard.  More »

It’s Thursday afternoon, the final hours of the Offshore Technology Conference, and it’s in these waning hours when some of the more interesting and diverse presentations emerge.  More »

The luncheon discussion on climate change at the Offshore Technology Conference offered one of the more balanced views on the subject this week.  More »

Houston’s Noble Energy continues to drive economic change in one of the most politically unstable regions on Earth.  More »

Exports from Israel and perhaps Cyprus could improve relationships among countries in the eastern Mediterranean.  More »

Last year I took the Metro light rail to the Offshore Technology Conference. I relished the irony.  More »

The people, the exhibits and the sales that make up this impromptu boom town all represent the billions of dollars that private companies and governments continue to pump into the business of finding oil.  More »