Tag: Oil

A gas pump is shown.

Gas prices under upward pressure with summer coming

Zach Halaschak · April 20, 2021 10:17 am

In this April 21, 2020 file photo, a pumpjack is pictured as the sun sets in Oklahoma City.

Biden’s infrastructure plan could endanger oil jobs and economic recovery

Dan K. Eberhart · April 19, 2021 4:00 am

Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Biden administration and industry alike see hydrogen as ‘Swiss Army knife’ for eliminating emissions

Abby Smith · April 16, 2021 3:00 am

The U.S. is home to the Permian Basin, the world's most productive oil field.

Energy and Environment

Death of shale ‘exaggerated’: US oil patch springs to life

Josh Siegel · April 15, 2021 10:30 am

$Pump jacks and wells are seen in an oil field on the Monterey Shale formation where gas and oil extraction using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is on the verge of a boom on March 23, 2014 near McKittrick, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)$ News

Michigan state employee charged with embezzling over $850K in well permit program

Kaelan Deese · April 14, 2021 6:06 pm

The U.S. is home to the Permian Basin, the world's most productive oil field.

White House calls Biden’s infrastructure package ‘a climate bill in many ways’ as GOP howls

John T. Bennett · April 2, 2021 6:24 pm

Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Louisiana Republican sees room to work with Biden on carbon capture and hydrogen

Abby Smith · April 2, 2021 3:00 am

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2020, file photo, pump jacks operate in an oilfield as the sun begins to set on the horizon in Midland, Texas. (Jacob Ford/Odessa American via AP, File)

Texas upstream oil, natural gas sector added 2,300 jobs in February

Washington Examiner · April 1, 2021 11:00 pm

Energy and Environment

Biden infrastructure plan includes massive spending and regulations to curb climate change

Abby Smith · March 31, 2021 9:00 am

The U.S. is home to the Permian Basin, the world's most productive oil field.

Petroleum Association of Wyoming joins lawsuit challenging Biden’s federal oil lease ban

Washington Examiner · March 30, 2021 9:00 pm

Jeremy Heskett, of Boston, pours gasoline at a Shell gas station, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Westwood, Mass. Energy prices declined for a second day, as the frigid temperatures that impacted Texas and much of the Midwest moved east. Natural gas prices were down 4%. Energy prices have been volatile the past week as record demand for natural gas and other fossil fuels to warm homes has caused electricity prices to skyrocket. Natural gas is typically used as an âon-demandâ fuel source to cover increased electrical needs.

Beltway Confidential

No, Biden isn’t to blame for increasing gas prices — yet

Nickie Deahl · March 28, 2021 10:00 am

This satellite image from Cnes2021, Distribution Airbus DS, shows the cargo ship MV Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.

Energy, retail, and food: Ever Given blockage threatens supply chains

Zach Halaschak · March 26, 2021 6:51 pm