Records Continue to Be Broken As US Crude Exports Flow
Ever since the crude oil export ban was lifted at the end of 2015, global markets have looked to the United States to help meet their energy supplies.
Ever since the crude oil export ban was lifted at the end of 2015, global markets have looked to the United States to help meet their energy supplies.
The U.S. Interior Department said it will hold its largest offshore auction to date, nearly 77 million acres, to energy companies in March 2018 to conduct oil and gas development.
Last year activists in several states used bolt cutters to break fences and twisted shut valves on several cross border pipelines...
In addition to lowering rates, it's important for corporate tax reform to be "neutral." The tax code shouldn't pick winners and losers; it shouldn't drift toward playing favorites and provide some sectors of the economy with preferential treatment or single out specific industries, like energy, for punitive taxation.
EIA forecasts that U.S crude oil production will average 9.4 million barrels per day (b/d) in the second half of 2017, 340,000 b/d more than in the first half of 2017. Production in 2018 is expected to average 9.9 million b/d...
A shale gas drilling boom over the last decade has propelled the United States from energy importer to exporter, taking the country a giant leap toward the goal of energy independence declared by presidents for half a century.
... those ideas are actually intrinsically linked to oil and natural gas. "Renewables today depend increasingly on natural gas for backup when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing... So without natural gas or other forms of fossil energy, there would be little, if any, solar or wind energy anywhere."
The 2017 edition of Global Energy Institute's Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk finds that U.S. energy security is continuing to rapidly improve to one of the best scores in decades, after hitting bottom just five years ago.
Not everyone thinks natural gas and oil fit in the clean energy conversation. But the fact is that industry is a clean energy leader, and we lay out the proofs below.
These are our communities - where we work, live, play, learn and grow. Our employees and their families care about where they work and live. Those are important reasons why safety, protecting the environment and public health, and giving back to communities are some of industry's top priorities.