ENERGY

Recent oil industry trends could pose a greater threat to the state's coffers than global policies to curb use of fossil fuels.

In 2014 oil prices were above $100 a barrel; now experts say getting above $50 will be difficult with excess supply and a possible economic slowdown.

Eni predicted the find could help meet Egypt's gas needs for decades to come.

Russia’s return on a deal to sell natural gas to China may be little more than a pipe dream.

Oil-producing nations are reeling from the latest drop in crude prices, which threatens to further erode federal budgets and fuel political insecurity.

The price of crude oil recovered slightly from Monday's record lows but prices are predicted to fall further to 2008 levels.

President Obama on Monday will unveil a series of measures at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.

If Monday’s trading activity is any indication, U.S. oil prices are headed to a ninth straight weekly decline.

U.S. oil prices are headed for an eighth straight weekly decline, the longest weekly losing streak in nearly 30 years.

The accord further cements the increasingly close relationship between the two countries.

An EPA proposal for cutting emissions from U.S. oil and gas operations won't affect existing natural gas gathering facilities, a major methane polluter.

The Environmental Protection Agency plan would require the oil and gas sector to decrease such output by 45 percent over the next decade.

Brazil's Petrobras expects to face the largest penalties ever levied by U.S. authorities in a corporate corruption investigation.

The Obama administration granted Royal Dutch Shell final clearance on Monday to resume drilling for oil and gas in the environmentally fragile Arctic Ocean for the first time since 2012, a move green groups vowed to fight.

The audit will cover accounts "all the way to 2014, 2015," including all contracts and agreements, managing director Emmanuel Kachikwu said.

Thanks to fracking, America is the world’s No. 1 oil and gas producer. But the economic bounty it delivers to small communities across the nation comes at a price. Now it’s dividing friends and neighbors in one Ohio county.

The Conservative government spent $30 million to promote tar sands exports and quash environmental opposition, the Guardian reports.

All operable commercial reactors in Japan are now subject to the Nuclear Regulation Authority's safety checks before they can resume operations.

The $12 billion coal mine in Queensland is expected to produce up to 60 million tons of coal for export every year.

Legal challenges by coal states and industry groups could not only dismantle the president's clean power proposal but hamstring future policies.

The Obama administration is unveiling the final version of its Clean Power Plan, the first federal policy to limit carbon emissions from power plants.

U.S. markets were following oil prices down on Monday.

Hillary Clinton backed Obama's Clean Power Plan, but green groups say her credentials are mixed.

The Irving, Texas, oil giant reported second quarter profits of $4.2 billion, down from $8.8 billion last year, as oil prices fell further Friday on fears of oversupply.

Climbers with the environmental group Greenpeace hang from a bridge in Portland, Oregon, in an effort to keep a Shell icebreaker docked.

Lower oil prices and a multibillion-dollar charge for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster slammed the British oil giant's second-quarter earnings.

BG Group Plc on Friday confirmed that it has received final unconditional clearance from Brazilian competition authority CADE for its acquisition by bigger rival Royal Dutch Shell.

Petrobras workers Friday laid down their tools to protest the Brazilian energy giant's plans to slash investments and liquidate assets.

Five years and billions of dollars have passed since a ruptured Enbridge Inc. pipeline spilled a million gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River.