New Orleans (UPI) May 13, 2016 - More than 2,000 barrels of oil were released into the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico about 97 miles from the southern tip of Louisiana, Shell said.
Bismarck, N.D. (UPI) May 13, 2016 - North Dakota crude oil production dropped about a full percentage point over the course of a month because of lingering market pressures, a regulator said.
Vienna (UPI) May 13, 2016 - Global spending in exploration and production over the next two years is expected to be about half what it was between 2012 and 2014, OPEC said in a monthly report.
New York (UPI) May 13, 2016 - Oil prices fell sharply in early Friday trading after OPEC reported in its latest monthly report that production increased while the global economy stood still.
Moscow (UPI) May 13, 2016 - Barring any compromise among OPEC members or a serious degradation in Middle East security, oil markets won't balance until next year, Russian analysis finds.
Berkeley CA (SPX) May 12, 2016 - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have engineered a strain of bacteria that enables a one-pot method for producing advanced biofue
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) May 12, 2016 - Natural gas growth means the provincial economy in British Columbia outpaces the rest of Canada, through the market carries risk, a national report said.
London (UPI) May 12, 2016 - A provisional estimate from the British government shows the amount of electricity generated from renewable energy set a record last year.
Washington DC (SPX) May 12, 2016 - If you've ever eaten food while upside down - and who hasn't indulged this chimpanzee daydream? - you can thank the successive wave-like motions of peristalsis for keeping the chewed bolus down and
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) May 12, 2016 - More facilities were returning to normal in the Fort McMurray area of Alberta, with Enbridge the latest to return some infrastructure to regular service.
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) May 12, 2016 - A militant group in Nigeria calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers issued a warning Thursday to oil companies, saying their campaign has just begun.
Moscow (UPI) May 12, 2016 - There's been no invitation extended to the Russian government to attend next month's summit of members of OPEC, Russia's energy minister said.
New York (UPI) May 12, 2016 - Data showing strong gains in global demand and a year-on-year slowdown in growth in oil production led to a rally in crude oil prices in early Thursday trading.
Durham NC (SPX) May 12, 2016 - Spills from oil and gas operations can contaminate local water and soil with high levels of toxic chemicals, salts and radioactivity, but in many cases there is insufficient information to determine
Raleigh NC (SPX) May 12, 2016 - Materials researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique to deposit diamond on the surface of cubic boron nitride (c-BN), integrating the two materials into a single c
Washington (AFP) May 12, 2016 - The United States on Thursday unveiled the first federal regulations on methane - a powerful greenhouse gas that accelerates global warming - aimed at reducing emissions from new oil and gas operations.
