Seismic activity grew in central Oklahoma in the 18 months leading up to Dec. 31, 2015, but declined markedly during the following year as the state began to regulate oil and gas wastewater disposal more aggressively, the US Department of Energy’s Fossil Energy Office (FEO) reported. Decreased oil and gas production in response to falling […]

Perth companies Woodside Petroleum Ltd. and FAR Ltd. are still at loggerheads over Woodside’s entry into three exploration blocks offshore Senegal, including the SNE oil field that is being readied for development. Source: News

Light, sweet crude oil prices for July tumbled more than $2 on the New York market June 7 to settle below $46/bbl after a weekly US government report showed crude oil supplies increased by more than 3 million bbl after having fell for 8 consecutive weeks. Source: News

Megan Barnett Bloomgren has joined the American Petroleum Institute as vice-president for communications, succeeding Linda Rozett, who is retiring. Source: News

Opportunities ranging from a likely overhaul of Mexico’s refineries to major new sales opportunities for US and Canadian oil field equipment manufacturers loom in the well-integrated North American oil and gas market that has been created in the past few years, witnesses told a US House Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittee on June 7. Source: News

Eastern and central European countries have done the most so far to start reducing their heavy reliance on Russia for their natural gas supplies, speakers generally agreed at a June 7 Atlantic Council discussion. But other nations will need to become more heavily involved as the European Commission addresses competition and political issues surrounding the […]