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Food writer Ian McNulty knows seafood, but he's a novice when it comes to deep sea fishing. On charter fishing trips, however ...
In September 2008, after hurricanes Gustav and Ike decimated Gulf communities, the DOE authorized an SPR exchange of nearly 5 ...
U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for an 11th week in a row for the first time ...
An ammonia producer plans to claim a federal tax incentive while working with Exxon Mobil to store carbon dioxide.
In Louisiana bayou country, where oil rig supply ships are as much a part of the waterside scenery as shrimp boats, a new kind of seagoing behemoth is taking shape that marks offshore wind power’s ...
Like pond-scrimming beetles, hundreds of speedboats and scows criss crossed the Gulf of Mexico last week carrying men and material to 88 rigs perched off the Louisiana coast. Helicopters whirred ...
The new law condemns communities like Houma, which are already dealing with storms made more intense by climate change, to continued reliance on oil and gas drilling, even as other parts of the ...
SHREVEPORT, La. - Investors in Louisiana's energy sector foresee a positive outlook for the oil and gas industry under the new Trump administration. Trump has said he would remove federal ...
OIL CITY, La. - In the early 1980s, it seemed like nothing could stop the booming oil industry in Northwest Louisiana. Crude oil prices soared to a record $35 a barrel in April 1980—equivalent ...
Baker Hughes said oil rigs fell by two to 478 this week, their lowest since November, ... And in Louisiana, drillers cut one rig, bringing the total down to 29, the lowest since August 2020.
On that fateful day in 1980, a Texaco oil drilling crew set up their rig on the lake, searching for new sources of oil. The operation seemed routine, with experienced hands managing the machinery ...