By Claudia Assis SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Crude-oil futures rallied Friday as investors cheered Europe’s plan to stanch its sovereign-debt problems and recapitalize its banks. Oil for August delivery CLQ2 +9.09% rose $7.27, or 9.4%, to end at $84.96 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, its best in three weeks and largest one-day […]

Exxon Mobil (XOM) CEO Rex Tillerson has indicated that the natural gas boom in the U.S. could boost the global economy. Tillerson said that “natural gas is quickly becoming a key enabler of economic growth and environmental progress around the world,” with demand in Asia set to rise by over 50% in the next 30 […]

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK +3.77% is in talks to sell pipelines for $4 billion to Global Infrastructure Partners, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. Chesapeake is in advanced discussions to sell its entire stake in Chesapeake Midstream Partners LP CHKM +5.59% to the $10 […]

By Isabel Ordonez HOUSTON -(MarketWatch)- Chevron Corp. CVX +0.42% is interested in developing matured oilfields off the coast of Mexico that are part of state-run oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos’s second contract auction, according to public documents posted by Pemex on its website. Chevron’s interest in the Arenque Block is likely to be seen as a […]

By V. Phani Kumar and Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch MADRID (MarketWatch) — Crude-oil futures stumbled below $82 a barrel in electronic trading Monday, finding little respite as disappointing U.S. jobs data combined with worries over the euro-zone and slowing growth in China to sap investor confidence. July futures for light, sweet crude-oil CLN2 +0.04% tumbled $1.35, […]

By Mia Lamar Vanguard Natural Resources LLC VNR +1.37% has agreed to pay $445 million to acquire natural gas and liquid assets primarily located in Oklahoma’s oil-rich Woodford Shale. Chief Executive Scott W. Smith on Monday said the deal with independent exploration and production company Antero Resources establishes Vanguard in a new area where it […]

By Florence Tan and Charlie Zhu SINGAPORE/HONG KONG | Sun Jun 3, 2026 9:34pm EDT (Reuters) - The impact of growing gas supplies on the global energy landscape and the prospect of deeper declines in Iranian oil exports as Western sanctions bite will dominate talks at a gas conference next week in Malaysia. The World […]

By Rebekah Kebede PERTH (Reuters) - Confidence in Australia’s coal seam gas industry, one of the nation’s brightest economic prospects, has begun to flicker. For the first time since energy firms kicked off $50 billion of projects to drill for gas in the region’s rich coal deposits less than two years ago, there is a […]

By Todd Wildermuth, Editor • Tue, May 22, 2026 Shell Oil Company hopes to move ahead soon with one or more new test wells in northeast New Mexico that could eventually lead the company to establish natural gas drilling operations throughout this part of the state, including Colfax County. A Shell official this month told […]

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