India Times:
New York Mercantile Exchange natural gas futures ended with modest gains on Friday, as colder forecasts for late next week and early December prompted shorts to cover despite a mild weekend outlook that pressured the cash mar (Read More)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Permafrost thaw threatens Russia oil and gas complex: studyMOSCOW (AFP) – Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's terri (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Oil and gas stocks opened modestly lower across the board Friday, following crude oil prices and the broader stock market as they extended the previous session's declines. The NYSE Arca Oil and (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Woodside Petroleum flagged a cost increase of up to $1.0 billion at its Pluto liquefied natural gas project, increasing pressure on the company to raise capital. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Straight from GreenBeat 2009, we bring you former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. I’ll be live-blogging this session — so it won’t be perfect or word-for-word, but it will be fast! We’ll pull out the gems as so (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Oil futures fell on Thursday, moving lower for the first session in four, as a rebound in the U.S. dollar and a report that showed higher-than-expected jobless claims dampened the outlook for energy (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
SALT LAKE CITY — Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of President Barack Obama that many aren't bothering to show up for auctions.The criticism (Read More)
New York Times:
A dispute between Russia and Ukraine over natural gas supplies escalated on Thursday, with an aide to the Russian president calling Ukraine’s warnings of a possible gas crisis “political blackmail.”
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Reuters: Environment:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Executives from two major oil companies told Congress on Thursday that the U.S. government should open more offshore areas to oil and natural gas drilling so America can rely less on foreign suppliers. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. natural gas inventories rose 20 billion cubic feet in the week ended Nov. 13, the Energy Information Administration reported Thursday. That's largely in line with analysts' expectations. At 3,83 (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Marathon Oil [S: mro] said Thursday it expects 2009 production growth of 6% over the year-ago period. The New York-based energy company said it'll pare back spending on refining and marketing of gaso (Read More)
New York Times:
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine announced on Wednesday that it would double the fees that Russia must pay to transport natural gas through Ukrainian territory to the rest of Europe, raising the possibility of a new feud between the t (Read More)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
The November 2009 edition of Oilwatch Monthly can be downloaded at this weblink (PDF, 1.24 MB, 33 pp).Figure 1 - OECD Crude Oil & Product Stocks from January 2002 to September 2009The Oilwatch Monthly is a newsletter that is (Read More)
The Blog:
Every day it's becoming clear to more and more Americans that our continued over reliance on foreign oil is not just an environmental disaster but an economic disaster for this country as well. People appreciate that while we (Read More)
India Times:
State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp, will commence gas production from its C-series fields on India's western offshore from December 1, a top company official said. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Natural gas futures finished lower, slipping back from Monday's strong gains on weaker-than-expected U.S. manufacturing data, with mixed weather forecasts failing to provide support. (Read More)
Reuters:
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has pulled out of a project to develop an oil block in Kazakhstan with Indian joint venture partner Oil and Natural Gas Corp, signalling the approaching end of a difficult relat (Read More)
Huffington Post:
GOLDEN, Colo. — Homes and office buildings consume three-quarters of U.S. electricity, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory wants to lower that figure by erecting what it believes will be the largest "net-zero" energy (Read More)