Did you know there was a National Petroleum Day?  Well, there is ……. and August 27 is that day!  It is also known as Oil and Gas Industry Appreciation Day. Crude oil was first pumped from the ground in China’s Sichuan Province 2,500 years ago.  U.S. discovery is credited to Edwin L Drake on August

• The mood music in the energy market has been heavily influenced by a flurry of demand-side developments of late, with investors continuing to monitor an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, the financial crisis in Turkey and a resurgent U.S. dollar. • Yet, industry analysts point out the U.S. shale boom is

There’s no question; the American energy renaissance has delivered significant economic and environmental benefits – so significant that it can be easy to take our new energy reality for granted. With gas prices low and imports down, adding production capacity may not seem as urgent. But, just as today’s energy security is the result of