Enterprise Products Partners L.P. and Enbridge Inc. today announced that modifications to the Seaway crude oil pipeline allowing it to transport crude oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to the U.S.

National Public Radio continues its look at the natural gas boom in the United States with a story about emissions from drilling. This story from the series isn't about Pennsylvania but instead focuses on Colorado, where oil and gas drilling is causing concerns about the rising levels of methane. A previous story in the NPR series focused on plans to study the health of people who live near Marcellus Shale activity.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Stephen Chu was in Arizona this week for the first time, and he got an up-close look at what the state is doing to push its solar power portfolio. Reporter Patrick O'Grady spoke with Chu, and the energy secretary detailed how Arizona can become a stronger leader in renewable energy. Get the full story at the link below.

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu believes in a diversified energy portfolio, and on Tuesday he was in Arizona to speak on at least one aspect of how to get it: financing. Money is the wheel that drives most energy production, and that's true for renewables. Chu was in town on Tuesday, his first visit to Arizona, to expound on the virtues of a Phoenix partnership with National Bank of Arizona, Salt River Project and Arizona Public Service Co. to provide financing for solar systems. Money is at the

NEW YORK - Occidental Petroleum was among the first major U.S. oil drillers to make a big bet on the resurgence of domestic production, spending billions to grab oil patches from Texas to North Dakota. Now, as it bemoans steep costs and moves its rigs out of the Bakken shale oil fields, some analysts wonder if the company has lost its clairvoyance. After two years of unyielding gains

This Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 picture shows reactor containment domes of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y. above the homes just north of the town of Verplanck, N.Y. as seen from the Stony Point Historic Site.

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.

U.S. energy company Anadarko Petroleum Corp. announced it made a major new natural gas discovery off the coast of Mozambique.

BRUSSELS - The European Commission approved on Wednesday a proposal from Britain's BP, U.S. oil major Chevron, Italy's Eni and France's Total and Angola's Sonangol to take control of Angola LNG joint venture to develop liquefied natural gas projects. "Considering a modest market share to be held by the joint venture... the Commission has concluded that the operation does not raise competition concerns," the Commission said in a statement. The joint venture aims to produce LNG in Angola and supply it to world markets, it said.