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HOUSTON -- Oil drillers expecting prices to rebound after the biggest drop in six years have come up with an alternative to storing their crude in tanks: They’re keeping it in the ground.
GALENA, Illinois (Bloomberg) -- A BNSF Railway Co. train carrying 103 cars of crude oil derailed in rural Illinois, and U.S. regulators said a fire had broken out. There were no reports of injuries.
CALGARY -- Blackbird Energy has announced that its first two operated horizontal Montney wells at Elmworth, Alberta, have been successfully completed and tested.
DENVER -- A Colorado oil producer is giving debt investors a lesson in the risks of lending to companies that staked their future on the U.S. shale boom.
In a world of $55/bbl oil, Exxon Mobil Corp. is relying on shale fields in Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota to help fund the next wave of big overseas projects it needs to thrive in the future.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude exporter, pledged to supply as much oil as its customers need as recovering demand helps rebalance the global market.
Oil held above $50/bbl as investors weighed Saudi Arabia’s signal that demand is improving against data forecast to show U.S. inventories expanded from a record.
ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO Ryan Lance delivered an energy policy speech that appealed to the federal government to lift the "outdated and economically constraining" national ban on crude oil exports.
HOUSTON -- The tide may be turning in the retreat of the U.S. oil explorers. Rigs targeting oil fell by 33 to 986, the smallest decline since Jan. 2, according to Baker Hughes. Rigs in the Permian basin dropped by seven to 355 after dropping by as much as 49 earlier in the month. The Eagle Ford in Texas lost three rigs.
Gazprom Neft has completed testing of four directional wells to investigate reserves within the Bazhenov formation within the southern area of Priobskoye field.
KUALA LUMPUR (Bloomberg) -- Petroliam Nasional, the Malaysian state oil company preparing for a leadership transition in April, reported a loss in the fourth quarter following crude’s plunge.
Ships carrying oil from Mexico are sailing to South Korea for the first time in more than two decades as the U.S. shale boom brings bargains from around the globe.
German brewers have won the backing of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to protect the springs they use from hydraulic fracturing, which they say could taint the purity of their beer.
TAM International has introduced a new swellable packer technology that alters the geometric design of the elastomer to provide ultra-fast, but predictable and controlled swell rates.
Magnum Hunter Resources has announced that the company's four new wholly owned WVDNR Pad wells (#1410, #1411, #1412 and #1413), located in Wetzel County, West Virginia, have been recently placed on production after several weeks of testing.
Shale producers in Alberta’s Duvernay region are being asked to monitor and prevent earthquakes after regulators linked a series of seismic events over the last two months to hydraulic fracturing.
Canada is cutting taxes on LNG projects in an effort to spur the industry.
Marathon Oil has announced a $3.5 billion capital, investment and exploration budget for 2015, a further 20% decrease since the Company's December capital budget update.
Eni reported a 64% decline in profit caused by falling oil prices and losses on the fair-value interests in Galp and Snam.
Oil fell for the first time in four days before U.S. government data forecast to show crude inventories increased further last week from a record level.