Oil and Gas Industry

North And South America Could Become Major Oil Players

The Washington Post | JUAN FORERO | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Energy, Oil and Gas, Oil Market, South America, Oil Production, Oil Drilling, Oil and Gas Industry, Gas Production, Oil, North America, Business News

LOMA LA LATA, Argentina — In a desertlike stretch of scrub grass and red buttes, oil companies are punching holes in the ground in search of what mi...

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Petro Plutocracy

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Al Armendariz Epa, Dr. Al Armendariz, Fracking, Al Armendariz, Oil and Gas Industry, Epa Fracking Study, Green News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Last week the world got a preview of America's new, post-Citizens-United petro plutocracy, with the oil lords flexing their political muscles like oil-soaked bodybuilders pumped up on a steroid drip of campaign dollars. It was all about fracking.

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Dan Froomkin

Corporate Giving That Gives Up On Appearances Of Bipartisanship

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Republican, Video, Democrats, K Street Project, Oil and Gas Industry, Campaign Contributions by Industry, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Money traditionally follows power in the nation's capital. As a result, corporate campaign contributions have historically been split am...

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Dan Froomkin

SEC Stall Leaves Critical Rules More Than A Year Overdue

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: SEC Rules, Dodd-Frank, Oil and Gas Industry, SEC Regulations, Sec Dodd-Frank, Sec, Oil Lobby, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A full year after the official deadline came and went, key regulations necessary to enforce the Dodd-Frank financial reform law remain ...

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Obama Administration Must Say No to Industry Loopholes in Natural Gas Fracking Standards

Frances Beinecke | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Benzene, Natural Gas, Cancer, Hydraulic Fracturing, Air Pollution, Fracking, Oil and Gas Industry, American Petroleum Institute, Colorado, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Now is the time to hold energy companies accountable for the pollution they create. For far too long, they have run roughshod over the health and well being of American communities and ordinary people are paying the price.

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Farming Versus Fracking: The Battle For Water

Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Video, Denver News, Fracking, Oil and Gas Industry, Save the Poudre Coalition, Colorado Environmental News, Colorado Water, Poudre River, Denver Colorado, Colorado Foundation for Water Education, Front Range Farmers, Colorado Farmers, Denver News

While there has always been competition for water in Colorado, today's contenders no longer just include farmers, but the oil and gas industry too. ...

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Lucia Graves

Pro-Fracking Filmmaker Make His Point In Big Way

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Oil and Gas, Josh Fox, Fracking, Phelim McAleer, Oil and Gas Industry, Gasland, Epa, Hydrofracking, Al Gore, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer, who famously attacked Al Gore over global warming issues, stepped up his support for fracking on Thursda...

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Dan Froomkin

Auction 2012: Energy Lobby Finds Power In Money And Fear

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Environmental Regulations, Video, Energy Industry, Carbon Tax, Auction 2012, Smog, Oil and Gas Industry, American Petroleum Institute, Energy Industry Lobbying, Energy Industry Campaign Spending, Coal, Greenpeace, Ozone, Oil and Gas Lobby, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When George W. Bush overruled scientists at t...

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Shale Gas Bubble: Insiders Suggest Fracking Boom Is a Bust

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Shale Gas Bubble, New York Times Drilling Down, Bloomberg News, Fracking, Economics, Oil and Gas Industry, Media Coverage of Energy, Industry Front Groups, Energy in Depth, Ian Urbina, Economically Recoverable, Bridge Fuel, Shale Gas, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

The New York Times and now Bloomberg have both exposed the fact that the economics of risky and expensive unconventional gas recovery simply don't match up with industry geologists' claims of a "nearly limitless" supply.

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Alex Wagner

Apple vs. Exxon: The Triumph of Tech Over Oil? Not So Fast

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Deep Water Drilling, Steve Jobs, Oil and Gas Industry, Oil Dependency, Stock Market, Kenneth Green, Ipad, Iphone, Imac, David Kreutzer, Apple, Oil Industry, Third Industrial Revolution, Exxon, DANIEL J. WEISS, Subsalt Drilling, Apple vs Exxon, Charlie Wolf, Business News

As Apple overtook Exxon Mobil this week as the most valuable company in the U.S., tech analysts were crowing about the striking turnaround of a compan...

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Is the Natural Gas Industry Fracking Itself?

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Fracking, Oil and Gas Industry, Tony Avella, Addiction, Renewable Energy, Ponzi Scheme, Legislation, Politics, Andrew Cuomo, Governor David Paterson, Water Pollution, Water, Contamination, Environment, Hydrofracking, New York Times, Natural Gas, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Solar Power, Green News
Mitchell J. Rabin

While much is yet to be discovered about the full effect of hydrofracking, what is known to date would suggest that the gas industry would want to really take a good look at developing a long-term investment strategy of renewable resources, quickly.

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Dan Froomkin

CHART: Oil Subsidies Repeal Blocked By Industry-Bankrolled Senators

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Senate, Oil and Gas Industry, Oil Subsidies, Campaign Spending, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- An attempt to repeal some of the billion-dollar tax breaks enjoyed by the five biggest oil companies failed in the Senate Tuesday evenin...

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Dan Froomkin

Republicans Who Opposed Oil Subsidies Are Now Hedging On Repeal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas Subsidies, Susan Collins, Elections 2012, 112th Congress, John Thune, Oil and Gas Industry, John Boehner, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats trying to get political mileage out of their push to repeal multi-billion dollar subsidies to the thriving oil and gas industr...

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Dan Froomkin

Democratic Senator Calls Big Oil Execs Selfish, Unfeeling -- And Unbeatable

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas Subsidies, Bp, Video, Jay Rockefeller, Oil Industry, Oil and Gas Industry, Conocophillips, Oil Subsidies, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The unapologetic -- indeed combative -- testimony on Thursday by top oil executives summoned to defend multi-billion tax subsidies for t...

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Republicans Continue to Alienate Voters: This Time on the Environment

Margie Omero | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Oil Industry, Environmental Policy, Federal Budget Deficit, Oil and Gas Industry, Budget Cuts, Environment, Wsj, Gallup, CNN Poll, Republicans, Pollster Analysis, Green News
Margie Omero

Americans do not want to see weakened protection of environment. Republicans -- once again -- risk overplaying their hands by showing such enthusiasm for unpopular positions.

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Oil Refiners Ink $7 Billion Meger

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, Holly Corp, Oil and Gas Industry, HollyFrontier Corp, Frontier Oil Corp, Business News

BANGALORE Feb 22 (Reuters) - Refiners Holly Corp and Frontier Oil Corp will merge to create a company with an enterprise value of $7 billion to tap i...

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BP Signs $7.2 Billion India Deal

AP | JANE WARDELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Petroleum, Reliance Industries, Oil and Gas Industry, Reliance in India, BP Oil Spill, Business News, Business News

LONDON — BP PLC is paying India's Reliance Industries $7.2 billion to take a stake in key oil and gas blocks, gaining a significant foothold in ...

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The Hydraulic Fracturing Dilemma, and Danger

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gasland, Frac'ing, Frac, Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil and Gas Industry, Horizontal, Green News
Robert L. Cavnar

It's time for the industry to take a pause on frac'ing, similar to the pause we continue to experience in the deepwater, and take the time to determine harmful practices and materials, then replace these techniques with safer operations.

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BP Will Start Paying Dividends Again

Bloomberg | Brian Swint | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, BP Oil Spill, BP U.S Refineries, British Petroleum, Oil and Gas Industry, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Business News

BP Plc, Europe's second-biggest oil company, reinstated the dividend and will sell two U.S. refineries as it recovers from the Gulf of Mexico spill. ...

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Firm Offers Journalists Cash For Their Opinions On Oil, Gas Industries

Washington Post | Paul Farhi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas Industry Opinion, Journalists Opinions, PFC Opinion Research, Media Audits, Oil and Gas Industry, Business News

News reporters are supposed to keep their opinions out of their copy. They certainly aren't supposed to sell them back to the people they cover. Ye...

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Water or Gas? Karl Rove, Cheney, and Cohorts Weighing In On Key NY Race

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Crossroads, Karl Rove, Maurince Hinchey, Congressional Elections, Fracking, Oil and Gas Industry, Congress, Water Supply, Election, Gasland, Halliburton Loophole, Water, Contamination, Halliburton, Clean Water, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Robocalls, Green News
Alison Rose Levy

We can't allow private industry to go unchecked for the sake of profits.

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American Petroleum Institute's Revisionist History on Climate Change Position

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: EnergyCitizens.Org, Energy Taxes, Oil and Gas Industry, Energy Citizens Rallies, American Petroleum Institute, Jack Gerard, Climate Legislation, EnergyTomorrow.Org, Astroturf, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

The American Petroleum Institute, the trade group for the oil and natural gas industry, is trying to re-write history by claiming that it has remained...

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BP Blowout: Containment Effort Halted

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Gas, Bp, Transocean Horizon, Oil Spill, Hydrate, Oil and Gas Industry, Oil, Green, Blowout Preventer, Blowout, Hydrates, Gas Hydrates, Methane, Containment, Green News
Robert L. Cavnar

It's time to step back from deepwater development not only until we have a reliable way to keep disasters from happening, but more importantly, until we know how to cope quickly when they do.

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Subsea Drilling: How Do They Work on the Ocean Floor?

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Bp, Transocean Horizon, Oil Spill, Oil and Gas Industry, Deepwater, Green, Blowout Preventer, Blowout, Green News
Robert L. Cavnar

I've gotten lots of questions the last week about my posts on the BP blowout of their Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well and how they do all the work o...

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A View From Inside BP: "Hubris" Before the Blowout

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Transocean Horizon, Oil Spill, Oil and Gas Industry, Blowout Preventer, Blowout, Mississippi Canyon Block 252, Energy, Green News
Robert L. Cavnar

Hubris. Illusions of grandeur. Deepwater overseers had been so successful (lucky) that they were over-confident. Having never experienced this kind of failure, it was inconceivable to them that it could happen. It did.

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