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The energy security risks of the United States worsened significantly in 2010, but shale gas has the potential to improve the security of natural gas supplies and lower energy costs, according to the second edition of an annual report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy.

Two Democratic senators have taken the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to task for failing to capture the extent of proprietary trading by banks, an oversight that they claim will make it difficult for regulators and policy makers to implement restrictions on proprietary trading, including trading of energy commodities.

Two Democratic senators have taken the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to task for failing to capture the extent of proprietary trading by banks, an oversight that they claim will make it difficult for regulators and policy makers to implement restrictions on proprietary trading, including trading of energy commodities.

Unconventional gas supplies around the world, particularly those from shale basins, “may hold the key to expanding the long-term role of gas in the global energy mix,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report released Monday.

BP plc said Monday it would join ExxonMobil Corp., Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell plc to develop a rapid-response system to capture and contain oil and natural gas in the event of a deepwater well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Senate Democrats Wednesday failed to capture enough votes to move forward on the nomination of David Hayes to be deputy secretary of the Department of Interior.

The increased amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the world is quickly developing a global market for natural gas and CME Group Inc. is looking to capture interested traders by creating new contracts that span the gap from the United States to the United Kingdom.

The increased amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the world is quickly developing a global market for natural gas and CME Group Inc. is looking to capture interested traders by creating new contracts that span the gap from the United States to the United Kingdom.

Despite falling commodity prices, the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) will capture about 20% of oil and natural gas spending over the next five years, with the global spending averaging more than $27 billion a year between 2009 and 2013, according to a study by UK-based Douglas-Westwood.