State agencies at odds over new law to address 'orphan' oil wells  KTOOThis month, the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission started requiring oil and gas companies to put up substantially higher bonds to cover the wells ... Read more https …

Premium TimesNigeria oil workers threaten to strikePremium TimesOil workers under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, have threatened to shut down operations and activities in the nation's oil and …

24/7 Wall St.Over 20 Key Oil & Gas Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades24/7 Wall St.The oil and gas components of the stock market, as well as pretty much anything tied to energy, have bounced handily from their low. The early dog days of 2016 may become a …

Russian reforms must touch oil and government alikeThe NationalAt a time of low oil and gas prices, the programme for the St Petersburg Economic Forum laid out a vision of such remodelling. The forum's programme betrayed Russia's preoccupations, re …

New York TimesFalling Oil Prices Bring End to Rally for the MarketNew York TimesThe Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, a broad measure of the stock market, stayed in the red. Oil prices fell. Trading was relatively quiet ahead of the Easter holiday …

OilPrice.comChina And India Rewrite The Rules Of The Oil And Gas GameOilPrice.comAs the current oil price crisis leads to some game-changing upheavals in the global energy market, Asia's two powerhouses, China and India, are taking advantage of the sup …

Wall Street Journal (subscription)Coming to the Oil Patch: Bad Loans to Outnumber the GoodWall Street Journal (subscription)Bad loans are likely to outnumber good ones soon in the U.S. oil patch, an indication of the pressure on energy companies and their …

FuelFix (blog)Oil Prices Continue To Tumble As Supply Glut Fears ReturnOilPrice.comAll the while, long positions (blue) have not done a great deal. Short positions have been slashed in the last month, encouraging oil prices to rally a euphoric 50 percent. …

FortuneOil services job cuts reach 25000Houston ChronicleWeatherford International's 15 percent job cut brings the tally of layoffs by the world's four biggest oil field services companies to 25,000 in recent weeks - a bigger number in a shorter ti …

Wall Street JournalAnalysts Blow Calls on Oil StocksWall Street JournalIn late November, as collapsing oil prices pummeled energy-company shares, a Raymond James & Associates analyst told investors that energy stocks were still a good bet. With a barre …