A coalition of environmental and tribal groups filed a challenge to a federal air-emissions permit for a Royal Dutch Shell drilling ship, the latest legal maneuver aimed at stopping the oil giant's exploration plan off Alaska's Arctic coast.

CALGARY, Alberta - Production in the Canadian oil sands is likely to increase at a much faster clip than the industry currently projects, an analyst said, putting more pressure on pipeline companies to vastly expand capacity out of Alberta. The forecast comes as companies plot billions of dollars worth of new pipeline routes to stave off costly bottlenecks. The latest is Enbridge Inc's

Seven years ago, when Texas native David Daniel purchased 20 acres tucked away in the Piney Woods of East Texas, the carpenter and builder believed he had found the perfect out-of-the-way place to raise a family.

PJM Interconnection said Thursday that its board of directors has approved more than 130 upgrades worth nearly $2 billion to the transmission grid it manages. The Valley Forge, Pa.-based grid operator and power wholesaler said the upgrades are necessary because of plans by generation companies on its grid to retire nearly 14,000 megawatts of generation capacity between May 2012 and the end of 2015. The capacity being retired consists mostly of older, coal-burning power plants, which are dirty and

As new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show, the race is on to add new domestic natural gas transmission pipeline and storage capacity. Surging production from inland shale gas and tight sand basins is contributing to this demand for new capacity.

THE release of a major report into the effects of coal seam gas mining on the Surat Basin has met with mixed reactions.

Spot prices set to hit record highs this summer as Japan abandons nuclear power and supplies decline after a LNG pipeline was blown up in Yemen

NEW ORLEANS- Today the Obama Administration provided final details for the Central Gulf of Mexico lease sale announced by President Obama in January 2012, as part of his administration's ongoing focus on expanding safe and responsible production of our domestic energy sources. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today

Enterprise Products Partners and Enbridge completed the reversal of the Seaway pipeline, setting the stage for crude oil to flow from an Oklahoma storage hub to Gulf Coast refineries.