The U.S. shale boom will send “shockwaves” through the global oil trade over the next five years, benefiting the nation’s refiners and displacing OPEC as the driver of supply growth, the IEA said.  More »

Gov. Rick Perry made a rare appearance on the Texas House floor to honor shale drilling pioneer George Mitchell, whose innovations led to the current oil and gas drilling boom that has boosted the state’s bottom line.  More »

It’s up to others to debate the merits of hydraulic fracturing, but we’ll take a stand on the spelling.  More »

Annell R. Bay, vice president of global exploration for Marathon Oil Corp., calls on the industry to commit to safe operations and to support math and science education, in order to optimize the modern U.S. energy revolution.  More »

Growing opportunities offshore and onshore have pushed the world’s largest oil company to get into the driver’s seat on technology research.  More »

Onshore natural gas stole the attention of offshore experts Monday morning at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.  More »

John C. Mingé is chairman and president of BP America, Inc., says the British oil giant is making major investments in people and technology to take advantage fo the energy revolution in the United States.  More »

Fluor Corp. will engineer and construct several new Dow Chemical Company facilities in Freeport, Texas, as part of Dow’s $4 billion expansion there.  More »

Operators working in unconventional plays could benefit financially from standardizing their approach to their projects, management consultants said at a Wednesday lunch in Houston.  More »

Thanks to an influx of Southerners filling jobs in north-central Pennsylvania’s booming natural gas industry, a region not often placed on many culinary maps is finding itself flush with the foodways found below the Mason-Dixon line.  More »

Energy industry mergers valued at more than $50 million dropped in the first three months of the year compared to the frenzied fourth quarter, but rose over the first quarter of 2012.  More »

Recently, much of the discussion on energy production in Texas has focused on the massive expansion of the Eagle Ford shale. And for good reason. The shale formation created 117,000 jobs and $25 billion in economic activity in 2011 and is on track to top those numbers in 2012 and 2013. But it’s also worth [...]  More »