Industry News
U.S. Oil Companies Crank Up Production in Gulf of Mexico
Wall Street Journal | June 23, 2016 | Lynn Cook & Erin Ailworth Oil companies are pumping more crude off the U.S. coast in the Gulf of Mexico, a surprising trend that shows the resilience of the nation’s energy industry. Despite the worst price downturn in a generation, so much oil is starting […]
Oil groups Urge US to Leave Door Open for Arctic Drilling
Financial Times | June 21, 2016 | Ed Crooks Leading oil companies have written to the US administration urging it to keep open the prospect that they could drill in the Arctic seas north of Alaska in the next decade. Oil exploration in the US […]
McCrory Urges Prompt Permitting for Seismic
Coastal Review Online | June 17, 2016 | Staff Report RALEIGH – Gov. Pat McCrory, in a letter dated Tuesday to U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, urges federal agencies to promptly complete their review of applications to permit seismic surveys for oil and natural gas […]
NOIA Urges Continued Dialogue on Proposed Air Quality Rule
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 Contact: Justin Williams, (202) 465-8464, jwilliams@nullnoia.org NOIA Urges Continued Dialogue on Proposed Air Quality Rule Washington, D.C. - NOIA President Randall Luthi issued the following statement after joint trade comments were filed yesterday on BOEM’s Air Quality Control, Reporting and […]
The Arctic is Essential to Interior’s Oil and Gas Program
The Hill | June 16, 2016 | Kara Moriarty In recent years, Alaska’s role in the emerging Arctic has taken center stage, and for good reason: It is a place of boundless beauty and tremendous opportunity. For those that appreciate the challenges of what makes our […]
Attacks on Offshore Energy Threaten Texas Economy
Houston Business Journal | June 16, 2016 | Stephen Minick As the state’s leading employer organization, the Texas Association of Business is committed to improving the Texas business climate and making our state’s economy the strongest in the world. Doing so, however, will require sensible […]
Lifeline for Korean shipyards could keep U.S. project afloat
Energywire | June 17, 2016 | Jenny Mandel An early-stage proposal to float a liquefied natural gas export terminal off the Louisiana coastline is on track to get major financing despite an industry-wide slowdown. Early this week, news reports surfaced that Delfin LNG, a project […]
Institute for Energy Research: Voting For Energy
Forbes | June 14, 2016 | Robert Bradley, Jr. Despite the divisiveness of this election season, Americans from both parties share common ground. As polls show, voters want the next president to inject life into our sluggish economy. The nation created only 38,000 jobs last […]
Military Brass Tells Obama, Move Forward On Drilling, Never ‘Retreat’
The Daily Caller | June 16, 2016 | Chris White Several former top military officials are pushing the Obama administration to push forward on oil and gas drilling in the American Arctic, while green activists and climate scientists express concern about the region’s beluga whales. […]
Republican prods Obama with Arctic resolution
Washington Examiner | June 15, 2016 | John Siciliano A California Republican offered a gentle reminder to the Obama administration not to backtrack from its plan to open the Arctic to drilling. Rep. Devin Nunes introduced a non-binding resolution encouraging the Arctic leases just as […]
