Fuel Fix

Greenpeace activists scale the underside of the Leiv Eiriksson oil rig, which Cairn Energy is using to explore off Greenland. (Photo: Greenpeace)

Activists removed from Cairn rig in Greenland

Greenpeace activists who boarded an oil rig off the coast of Greenland in a bid to disrupt an imminent drilling campaign by Cairn Energy have been removed by Greenland authorities, the company said. (Via W$J)  More »
Shukri Ghanem (AP file photo/Patricio Realpe)

After defecting, Libyan oil minister sides with rebels

Shukri Ghanem said he left the regime two weeks ago and arrived in Rome this week. Up to now Libya has insisted that Ghanem was on a business trip.  More »
The shale drilling boom has increased the interest in information about upstream energy developments. (Jake Lacey/Houston Chronicle file photo)

Marathon buys $3.5 billion stake in shale play

The Houston-based company is buying big into the shale boom that’s driving much of the industry — paying a record-setting price to double its acreage in South Texas’ Eagle Ford play.  More »
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Bureaucratic rift stalls Alaska well

A proposed bridge and pipeline in the remote reaches of Alaska are highlighting the obstacles facing the Obama administration in its push to produce oil production in ecologically sensitive regions. (Via W$J)  More »
A coal mining site in West Virginia. (AP file photo/Jeff Gentner)

Massey, Alpha investors approve $7.1B deal

After shareholders overwhelmingly approved the takeover, Alpha immediately began absorbing its struggling rival — replacing the Massey’s sign on its West Virginia headquarters and filing documents with the SEC to cancel Massey shares after the deal closed.  More »
A natural gas drilling site in Houston, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Natural gas execs: Regulation of fracturing best left in state hands

Energy company executives insisted today that because of geologic differences, states — not the feds — should take the lead in regulating the process used to produce natural gas from shale formations nationwide.  More »
Plastics used in food packaging like this can be converted into energy. (Photo: Dow Chemical Co.)

Dow burns plastics to create fuel, reduce landfill use

The chemical company says it can incinerate scraps of plastic used for food packaging and turn them into fuel to power some of its machinery.  More »
(Photo: Jeff Kubina/Flickr)

Lights out at FERC

The agency responsible for overseeing the reliability of the U.S. electric grid shut its Washington, D.C., headquarters today because it had no power.  More »
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Oil settles below $101 on weak economic data

Crude prices slipped 2.4 percent after economic reports showed motorists buying less fuel, private employers adding fewer jobs than expected and U.S. manufacturing growth slowing dramatically.  More »
Artist rendering of the Rowan GustoMSC P10,000 drillship design. (Image: Rowan Companies)

Rowan orders two $605M drillships

The Houston-based driller is purchasing its first two drillships to work in up to 12,000 feet of water and has an option to order a third from Hyundai Heavy Industries.  More »
Former President Bill Clinton delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit being held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 1, 2011. (Photo: Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images)

Bill Clinton: Methane capture could be ‘goldmine’ in global warming fight

Politicians may need years to work out a way to limit the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels, so it would cheaper and quicker to focus on gases such as methane first, Clinton said at a meeting of mayors from the world’s largest cities in Brazil today.  More »
(Photo: Anadarko)

Feds say Anadarko’s on the hook for spill liability

The Woodlands-based Anadarko has a 25 percent stake in the failed Macondo well and should be liable for fines and damages under U.S. pollution laws, argue U.S. lawyers.  More »