United States

BMI View: Delta Air Lines' acquisition of the 185,000b/d Trainer refinery and talks initiated by Carlyle Group to acquire the 335,000b/d Philadelphia refinery spur hope that the ailing... 2012-05-01

BMI View: Japanese trading houses Mistui and Mitsubishi have agreed to buy a 14.7% stake in Woodside Petroleum's Browse LNG project for US$2bn. The deal reflects strong Japanese demand... 2012-05-01

Oil major Royal Dutch Shell is considering a move into the UK shale gas sector, according to reports by The Daily Telegraph. While this is encouraging, we do not anticipate that Shell... 2012-04-30

Oil major ExxonMobil has posted a disappointing Q112 after lower production and US natural gas realisations hit earnings. Given that the company has greater exposure to the US shale... 2012-04-27

Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has posted a strong set of Q112 results. High oil prices and a 1.4% year-on-year rise in production drove overall earnings growth of 13.6%. The performance... 2012-04-26

The EPA's new fraccing regulations will require operators to implement 'green completion' technologies at all new wells by 2015. Given that most producers are already using this technology,... 2012-04-20

Total has signed a joint venture with US oil shale specialist Red Leaf Resources. Red Leaf has developed a new means of extracting hydrocarbons from source rocks such as Kerogen using... 2012-04-19

A report commissioned by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has recommended that hydraulic fracturing, or fraccing, operations should resume in the UK subject to careful... 2012-04-18

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued Cheniere Energy with a permit for the liquefaction and export of domestically produced natural gas from its Sabine Pass... 2012-04-17

Offshore exploration in the Gulf of Mexico is close to pre-Deepwater Horizon levels amid signs that the industry is well and truly back on its feet. In particular, high oil prices are... 2012-04-11