Oil Industry, Labor Unions Form Historic Labor-Management Group

The American Petroleum Institute and 15 labor unions announced today the historic creation of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee, which will work to promote job retention and growth. In a...

Obama Budget Risks Nation’s Energy Security

President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal makes it appear he’s ready, willing and able to bury Americans in new taxes, place the nation’s energy security in peril and put  six-million American jobs...

Florida House Votes in Favor of Offshore Drilling...Too Late

Though the Florida House of Representatives voted in favor of it yesterday, a move to open state waters to offshore oil drilling appears to have run out of time in the legislative session, according to a Miami Herald report via Upstream Online.com. American Petroleum...

Colorado’s Piceance Basin Overflowing with Oil Shale Resources

U.S. Geological Survey officials said in a news release today that oil shale resources in Western Colorado's Piceance Basin are more than 50 percent larger today than they were in 1989. "For the first time in 20...

Grassroots Effort Results in Proposal to Open New Offshore Areas

A pro-drilling grassroots effort launched launched Sept. 9 appears to have paid off, according to my friends in the oil and gas industry.  On Friday morning, officials with the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service announced the agency is proposing to open...

Senate Democrats Oppose Energy Independence

Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation that will further hinder our nation’s ability to become energy independent (i.e., depend less upon foreign sources of oil and natural gas) is one...

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