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Pennsylvania’s oil and natural gas industry supported 6.1% of the total jobs and 9.7% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019, according to a new study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API). The industry overall supported 480,000 total jobs (102,500 direct and 377,800 indirect) and contributed $78.4 billion ($39.4 billion direct and $38.9…

Devon Energy Corp. CEO Rick Muncrief said it’s time for his peers to get their act together and stop expanding oil and gas production until demand outpaces supply. Speaking with investors during a first quarter conference call on Wednesday, Muncrief took the pulpit to preach to fellow exploration and production (E&P) companies. Mirroring comments by…

France’s Total SE plans to base its growth strategy on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and renewable electricity during the 2020-2030 period and propose a name change to shareholders to reflect the shift in focus, management said Tuesday.  “The writing is on the wall,” said CEO Patrick Pouyanné upon presenting the major’s 2020 earnings to analysts…

All claims to the contrary, the oil and gas industry is not dying a slow death, with the outlook for U.S. exports looking strong long term, according to one of the energy world’s leading thought leaders. Master storyteller Daniel Yergin, more often the inquirer, had much to share with NGI in a recent conversation about…

MPLX LP is targeting high-return projects in the Permian Basin-to-Gulf Coast corridor as it continues to streamline 2020 growth capital expenditures (capex) to $1.5 billion, down by another $500 million from the most recent estimate.

MPLX LP is targeting high-return projects in the Permian Basin-to-Gulf Coast corridor as it continues to streamline 2020 growth capital expenditures (capex) to $1.5 billion, down by another $500 million from the most recent estimate.

Recent spot price weakness and fewer sanctions expected this year for export projects have not changed the overall long-term supply and demand picture for liquefied natural gas (LNG), Baker Hughes Co. CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said Wednesday.

Recent spot price weakness and fewer sanctions expected this year for export projects have not changed the overall long-term supply and demand picture for liquefied natural gas (LNG), Baker Hughes Co. CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said Wednesday.

Plentiful oil production growth from countries that are not members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) should adequately supply “any likely level” of demand through 2020, helping to contain prices for consumers in a “vulnerable” global economy, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).