The Trump administration’s Fiscal 2018 Budget Blueprint would increase or preserve discretionary expenditures for programs connected with fossil energy amid an overall 11.7% year-to-year reduction at the US Department of the Interior. It also would eliminate spending for advanced energy research at the US Department of Energy amid a 5.6% cut overall, and slash Environmental […]

While Republicans have control of Congress and a mandate to change things, they should heed the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and remove carbon dioxide from the political witch list. Doing so would help rescue climate change-and the economy-from extremism. Source: News

Bob Enright doubted the project would work. Source: News

The UK Oil and Gas Authority’s 29th Offshore Licensing Round was the first in 20 years to focus solely on frontier, underexplored areas and included areas of the Rockall basin, Mid-North Sea High, and part of the East Shetland platform. The round, which closed in October 2016, produced 25 licenses for 111 blocks and partial […]

Overdue approval of the Keystone XL pipeline border crossing solves half the problem. Source: News

Shareholders of US independent refiners Western Refining Inc. and Tesoro Corp. have approved Tesoro’s previously announced plan to acquire Western in a deal valued at more than $6 billion. Source: News

US Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and 16 members of the US House of Representatives from the Sunshine State urged US Sec. of the Interior Ryan Zinke to keep the eastern Gulf of Mexico closed to oil and gas activity if he decides to develop a new 2017-22 US Outer Continental Shelf management plan. Source: News