The Globe and Mail (subscription)Connacher Oil and Gas extends deadline for court-supervised bid submissionsThe Globe and Mail (subscription)Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd. has extended the bid deadlines for the sale of its oilsands leases and extraction plants …

The Globe and Mail (subscription)NEB conditionally approves Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansionThe Globe and Mail (subscription)The National Energy Board has conditionally approved the $6.8-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project. The regul …

MarketsMilitants 'seriously affecting' Nigerian oil productionFinancial Times“The renewed activities of the militants in the Niger Delta is seriously affecting our oil production, in fact it is now down to 1.65 [m b /d]“, Kemi Adeosun said on state …

Wall Street JournalEPA Issues Final Rules Cutting Oil, Natural Gas Methane EmissionsWall Street JournalWASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday issued the first-ever federal standards aimed at curbing methane emissions from the oil and na …

Wall Street JournalEPA Ready to Issue Methane Limits for New Oil and Gas WellsWall Street JournalThe rules, which will only affect new oil and natural gas wells, will require companies to install technologies to monitor and limit inadvertent emitting of me …

FortuneCheap Oil Has Bankrupted More Than 50 American Producers—So FarFortuneWith U.S. oil prices now trading below $40 a barrel, the corporate casualties are already mounting. More than 50 North American oil and gas producers have entered bankruptcy since …

The GuardianHackers targeting internet-connected systems to steal oil, expert warnsThe GuardianOil and gas companies should be extremely concerned about the threat of hackers targeting critical infrastructure as they attempt to steal commodities or cause e …

Wall Street Journal (blog)Obama Has Been More Friend Than Foe to Oil IndustryWall Street Journal (blog)When President Barack Obama first took office in 2009, he was expected to be an adversary of oil and gas companies, seen as polluters of the environment. …

CBC.caAzerbaijan offshore oil rig burns, 30 missing and feared deadCBC.caThirty workers are missing and feared dead after an offshore oil platform operated by Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR caught fire in the Caspian Sea, the head of an indepe …

BBC NewsMoscow says Turkey shot down plane to protect oil trade with ISISCNNRussian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Turkey of shooting down the plane to protect secret oil trade with the terrorist group ISIS. He said the plane was actually going …