Chevron reported a loss that was double analysts’ estimates amid an oil-market collapse that’s sparked currency crises, corporate bankruptcies, credit downgrades and hundreds of thousands of layoffs across the industry.
Range Resources said it has "highly encouraging" results from its Trinidad operation after discovering multiple pay zones during its current drilling programme.
Bahamas Petroleum Companyaims to begin drilling activity in the Caribbean this year whilst searching for a technical partner to share in the "world class" multi-billion barrel potential of the region.
OPEC raised crude output to the highest in more than three years as it pressed on with a strategy to protect market share and pressure competing producers.
Russian oil output in November hovered near a post-Soviet record set the previous month, shrugging off a crude-price slump before OPEC gathers for its biannual meeting in Vienna.
India's reliance on foreign oil will jump from 80 percent to 90 percent by 2040 and it would lead global energy demand growth, the International Energy Agency said in a report on the world's third largest energy consumer released in New Delhi on Friday.
Figures have revealed an increase in oil and gas production in the UK has increased by more than 14% since last year - the highest quarterly increase since 1999.
The findings, in the latest edition of Energy Trends by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), shows indigenous UK production of crude and natural gas liquids was boosted in the second quarter of the year.
The most remote part of the Atlantic Frontier, the Falkland Islands, apparently has to potential to become a major new player in the quest for new oil and gas resources.
American companies PanAmerican Geophysical and NanoSeis are joining forces to commercialise the Narrow Beam Scan (NBS) microseismic technique developed by the latter to improve the detectability, spatial mapping, and understanding of the nature of microseismic events during the hydraulic fracturing process.
Backers of the Vote for City Garden Project campaign have argued Aberdeen's future prosperity is at stake in a local referendum that closes later today.
Aberdeen-based oil explorer Xcite said today it was hoping to float out the rig to be used to drill its North Sea Bentley field as soon as it gets good weather after Monday.