Companies are increasingly using hospitality suites, offering everything from shrimp cocktail to margaritas, as a way to gather more attention from attendees at OTC.  More »

Coal-fired power may be on the wane in the United States, but reports of its death are greatly exaggerated, energy executives said Thursday. Also overblown: Predictions that natural gas will overtake all other forms of generating electricity in the U.S.  More »

The shale oil and gas drilling boom, credited with creating jobs and pumping money into state and federal treasuries across the United States, will eventually spread across the globe, executives from several international energy companies told delegates to the IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston Tuesday.  More »

Google has invested $200 million in a West Texas wind farm, which will become a part of the company’s $1 billion renewable energy portfolio, the Internet search giant said Wednesday.  More »