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- TransCanada in April pushed back its estimated completion date for the northern segment of the Keystone XL project, which is planned to connect oil sands fields in Canada with the Gulf Coast. Crude harvested from oil sands, however, is already...
- WASHINGTON - Three years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster put a new focus on the risks of offshore drilling, the Interior Department on Wednesday announced it will create an institute focused on boosting the safety of coastal oil and gas...
- DALLAS - Exxon Mobil Corp. underestimated the drag that low natural gas prices would have on its earnings, notwithstanding 2012 profit that was the company's second-highest ever, CEO Rex Tillerson said Wednesday. Tillerson said the company's record...
- The Texas Railroad Commission adopted long-awaited changes to its rules for the construction of oil and gas wells Friday, saying its actions showed the value of allowing the state to regulate the industry. The unanimous vote came as legislators...
- Energy giants hunker down on verge of hurricane season BP shows how oil companies brace for the weather BP, the largest oil and gas producer in the deep-water Gulf last year, offered a glimpse into its hurricane planning Thursday. The National...
- Kinder Morgan Energy Partners said Friday it had shelved plans to build a pipeline that would have moved crude oil from the Permian Basin in West Texas to California. Houston-based Kinder Morgan Energy Partners is a pipeline transportation and...
- Canadian refineries are importing U.S. oil at a soaring rate, bringing in crude at four times historic levels as booming shale production continues to reshape the world oil market. Refineries in eastern Canada took in an average of 100,000 barrels...
- The city announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement with Reliant Energy to buy 140 megawatts of renewable power from July 1 of this year to June 30, 2015, accounting for half of its annual electricity demand. "From promoting electric...
- The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to take a case that has pitted Texas against the Obama administration over a federal rule aimed at reducing air pollution that crosses state borders. Led by Texas, 14 states and several power companies...
- By elevating climate change in the formal debate over Keystone XL, Obama suggested that the risk of environmental damage along the pipeline's path will not be central to the decision, even as a federally commissioned study released Tuesday bolstered...
- Salaries for chemical engineers in the United States have surged in just two years as companies seek expertise to run plants they're building or expanding to take advantage of cheap natural gas. The latest edition of the engineer association's...
- Tenaska is not the only company to come that conclusion. Since November alone, NRG Texas Power has scrapped its planned Limestone 3 coal project near Waco, while Chase Power Development has pulled the plug on a proposed Corpus Christi plant fueled...
- Gasoline prices have fallen to a five-month low in advance of the busy July 4 travel weekend, but pump prices on Independence Day still will be the third-highest recorded on the holiday, AAA said Tuesday. When refineries process a barrel of oil, it...
- Forty-four workers evacuated a jack-up rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and two Houston-based companies worked to curb uncontrolled flow of natural gas from a well on which the rig was working. Earlier this month, a 40-year-old well owned...
- Reliant Energy has not disclosed the number of its customers using plans that offer savings on electricity at night or on weekends when demand is lower. A number in a story on Page A1 Sunday counted customers in all programs - including the nights-...
- MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - Russia shrugged off Dutch legal action over its detention and prosecution of Greenpeace activists for piracy on Saturday as protesters took to the streets internationally to call for the 30 detainees to be freed.
- NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Karen continued to weaken on Saturday as it approached the Louisiana coast after prompting the evacuation of some low-lying coastal areas and disrupting U.S. energy output in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Alaska’s high court became the first state supreme court in the country yesterday to hear an appeal in one of more than a dozen climate change lawsuits.
- Climate change expert Tim Flannery's "Obama-style" campaign to raise cash for a new Climate Council has generated $1 million. The council believes it could be a record for the biggest crowd-funding project in Australian history.
- Germany found unexpected allies on Friday in its campaign to protect its premium automakers, convincing EU diplomats to delay a vote on new carbon emissions limits to take effect from 2020.
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