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After 30 years of payments to farmers and blenders, the federal subsidy on corn-based ethanol expired when Congress adjourned last week without taking any action to renew the payments. A cynic might...
The national oil company of Malaysia, known as Petronas, announced plans in May to build a $20 billion oil refinery and petrochemical complex on the country’s southern border with Singapore. In...
When Iraq began offering leases to its vast oil deposits a couple of years ago, there weren’t a lot of big oil companies lined up to buy in. Iraq’s offer of reimbursing development costs, a flat...
A small leak in a line feeding drilling fluid to a well owned and operated by Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-A) and using a rig owned by Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) has spilled less than 6,000 gallons...
This last weekend brought the first waves of picks for 2012.  Barron’s issued its “10 Favorite Stocks For 2012” and the stocks were just about all lower on Monday with a very weak stock...
The board of Olympus may resign by late February. (Reuters) China says its annual rate of growth slowed between October and November. (Reuters) Congress pressures the CFTC for stronger regulation...
The announcement from Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) that it would acquire the 50% stake in the Seaway pipeline system owned by ConocoPhillips Corp. (NYSE: COP) and reverse the pipeline’s flow...
A decision is expected by the end of this year from the US State Department on whether or not the US will allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built. TransCanada Corp. (NYSE: TRP) has proposed a $7...
The boom in US natural gas drilling resulting from the technological advances of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is beginning to spread to the rest of the world. In some countries, like...
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has signed agreements with a number of companies that will use GE’s technology to explore for energy, generate power, and make beer in China. The contracts literally...
The Pickens Plan is getting one more round of formal support, well indirect support at any rate.  Westport Innovations Inc. (NASDAQ: WPRT) was halted ahead of news that it and Shell, under Royal...
Beginning in the early 1990s, integrated oil companies and some independents began stripping away their midstream assets like interstate pipeline and gathering systems to focus more on the...
What would become Lee is currently posing a threat the entire Gulf Coast again in the Gulf of Mexico.  The East Cost just had to deal with Irene and is now looking out toward Hurricane Katia for the...