Pittsburgh Post-GazetteDine: How to select a better olive oilPittsburgh Post-GazetteWhether you're using it to saute vegetables or you're drizzling it on bread sprinkled with sea salt, olive oil should enhance a dish or a snack. Yet many olive oils …

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 …

GeekWireSecretive big data company Palantir opening Seattle engineering officeGeekWireThe company, based in Palo Alto, Calif. is already advertising an open software engineering position based in Seattle, and real estate sources say Palantir has signed a l …

Anaheim Engineering Firm Buys TwoOrange County Business JournalWilldan Group Inc. in Anaheim purchased two privately held engineering companies for approximately $21.2 million—360 Energy Engineers in Lawrence, Kan. and Abacus Resource Management Co. in Bea …

Pittsburgh Post GazettePenn State announces $9.5 million project to renovate science and engineering ...Pittsburgh Post GazetteNo students will be able to use the building during construction in the summer and fall sessions this year. About 28 percent of P …

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 …