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Spectra Energy Chief Executive Greg Ebel sat down with Natural Gas Week to discuss the Houston-based pipeline company's expansion plans, US climate legislation and the state of the natural gas [...]

U.S. gas industry spokesmen have complained that many elements of a pipeline safety bill pending in the House of Representatives are unnecessary. Their comments came at a House energy and [...]

The oil and gas industry must inform that American people that energy independence is unattainable and wasteful. The pursuit of energy independence entails costs that the American people cannot afford to bear.

The oil and gas industry supported the Republican Party heavily in the 2008 US elections, spending slightly more than $26 million during the campaign. The industry also backed candidates in the presidential, senatorial, and congressional races. The industry is expected to experience a backlash from the Democratic Party-controlled US Congress.

Negotiations for oil taxes and climate change laws are becoming more intense after punitive measures for oil and gas companies and climate change regulations were rejected in the US Senate. Oil and gas industry lobbyists expect the reintroduction of a cap-and-trade bill in 2009.

NATURAL GAS FRIEND BEATS OPPONENT DESPITE LOSS OF BIG PRODUCER SUPPORT The gas industry came close to losing one of its best friends in Congress last week at the hands [...]

U.S. oil groups oppose and gas groups support key elements of the Clean Air Act revision the House of Representatives has passed. The legislation now goes to conference committee, which [...]

CONGRESSIONAL EFFORTS to open more of the US outer continental shelf (OCS) to oil and gas development may be put off to a special 'lame duck' session in December, sources [...]

A list of issues that America's gas industry must follow up with Congress for controlling escalating natural gas prices within United States is discussed. In this context Energy Policy Act of 2005 is also mentioned.

High natural gas prices were apt to be among the first issues Congress had to deal with when it returned to town in early January. With continuing shut-in Gulf production [...]

Industrial gas users have joined the environmental groups in urging the congress to curtail natural gas prices. According to them, adverse effects of the continuing rise in gas prices is likely to affect the economic recovery and destroy more American jobs.

This month, the presidential primary season kicks off with the Iowa caucus on January 19th and the New Hampshire primary a week later on the 27th. Election season is here [...]

Rilwanu Lukman, the presidential oil adviser and long-serving architect of the country's oil policy, resigned last month--reportedly as a result of the increasing influence of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation over [...]

Refining is a global business. It is also a business that is intertwined with politics on a very intimate basis. This month's column departs from discussions of sulfur and oxygenates [...]

* Expect Congress to back construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska as part of a comprehensive new energy bill. Natural gas prices will remain high, but at least [...]

The Petroleum Marketers Association of America and its state associations from around the country organized petroleum marketer delegations to lobby in Washington, D.C. in April. Marketers visited their Representatives and [...]

'An updated U.S. energy policy should emphasize the supply side of the energy equation; in recent years adequate energy supply has been taken largely for granted,' said Bob Slaughter, president [...]

This time, Saudi Arabia got its way on boosting quotas to match production. s It a case of eating one's cake and having it too? That might seem so, considering [...]

One of the more popular chain-letter e-mails zipping around the Internet these days asks recipients to join a boycott of oil companies that do business with Middle Eastern countries. The [...]

The auto industry is expected to challenge the legality of a new California law that requires automobile manufacturers to cut emissions of gases thought to cause global warming. The law, [...]

Even, a pessimist would concede that the US has won a major energy policy victory in Central Asia. After years of political wrangling, a consortium of eight oil companies will [...]

The oil and natural gas industry regularly must defend itself against those who oppose using America's natural resources for any purpose, and especially not for the purpose of increasing domestic [...]

Whether you see it that way or not, 2002 is energy's election. From the standpoint of activism, the only question is which side of the debate outperforms the other. IPAA's [...]

Hackberry LNG Terminal LLC, a Dynegy Midstream Services, L.P. subsidiary, filed its application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for permission to site, construct and operate a liquefied natural gas [...]

Do you have employees or retirees who vote in Texas, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas or Illinois? If so, you may have the opportunity of a lifetime [...]

Convoluted directional twists and turns in energy policies, corporate strategies and alliances can lead to unknown destinations, or even shortened careers, unless energy leaders keep alert. Cross-political, cross-border, cross-continent and [...]

The Senate will begin debate this week on a comprehensive bill to boost U.S. energy production. The chemical industry opposes the bill, which is the Senate Democrat leaders' alternative to [...]