CNBCPope's climate push at odds with US Catholic oil investmentsCNBCBut some of the largest American Catholic organizations have millions of dollars invested in energy companies, from hydraulic fracturing firms to oil sands producers, according to thei …

Pa. records on oil and gas wells are incompletePittsburgh Post-GazetteOnly about a quarter of drilled wells had records entered into the state's database, state Sen. Jim Brewster's staffers found when they began researching the pipe used in Pennsyl …

Waiting game for chemical cracker developersPittsburgh Post-Gazette“The reason everybody was betting on building ethane crackers is because there was a very large difference between oil and natural gas prices,” said Maria Mejia, a natural gas liquids analy …

Waiting game as low oil prices have chemical cracker developers sitting tightPittsburgh Post-Gazette“The reason everybody was betting on building ethane crackers is because there was a very large difference between oil and natural gas prices,” said Maria M …

Sinking oil prices also hitting the market for natural gas liquidsPowerSourceSince 2010, prices for oil and natural gas liquids have been higher than those for natural gas. That gave drillers an incentive to target liquids-rich shale plays. But the gap bet …

TIMEOil workers in US on first large-scale strike since 1980Pittsburgh Post GazetteSAN FRANCISCO — The United Steelworkers union, which represents employees at more than 200 U.S. oil refineries, terminals, pipelines and chemical plants, began a strike at n …

PowerSourceAs Oil Falls, Alaska's New Chief Faces a Novel Goal: FrugalityPowerSourceThe result, historians and economists say, is beyond the experience of this state, or probably any other in modern times: More than half of the tax base — predicated on …