Energy

The effort is designed to ensure the U.S. remains globally competitive in AI and quantum technologies, administration officials said.

The blue-chip index will include only one energy stock, Chevron, which will represent just 2.1% of the price-weighted index.

California launched a market in forest preservation with its cap-and-trade regulations. Now energy giants such as BP are expanding their investments in a bet that it is about to become more lucrative.

Turning to her roots, Katie Beal Brown found a horde of buyers for a drink inspired by an area favorite, ranch water.

Natural gas prices have shot up 66% since late June, and speculators are betting they will keep climbing. But the companies that control the country’s spigots aren’t so sure.

Turkey has identified a vast natural gas field in the Black Sea, President Erdogan said, a discovery that could help the country ease its reliance on energy imports.

Fighting between Islamic extremist rebels and Mozambique’s army over a key port is threatening to disrupt the East African nation’s burgeoning natural-gas developments, including a multibillion-dollar project led by French energy giant Total.

A former procurement officer at a Petróleos de Venezuela SA subsidiary has pleaded guilty to an alleged role in a bribery scheme, and a former Citgo manager has been indicted on money-laundering charges, in the latest developments in a sprawling U.S. probe into alleged corruption at Venezuela’s state-owned energy company.

After rebounding from a historic crash this spring, the oil market is back under pressure from the twin forces of rising supply and stalling demand.

E-commerce business at the world’s largest retailer jumped 97% from a year ago, boosted by people ordering groceries online to pick up in store parking lots. Sales at stores or digital channels operating for at least 12 months rose 9.3%.

The U.S. oil major could unveil a pact with Baghdad on the sidelines of a White House visit this week, in what would be a boost to Iraq’s oil industry.

The state is struggling to deliver enough power to keep the lights on for the first time in nearly two decades as a severe heat wave broils the region.

Fracking has turned Pennsylvania into the nation’s second-largest producer of natural gas. Joe Biden’s pick of fracking-foe Kamala Harris as his running mate could be a hurdle in the state for the Democrats.

High coronavirus case numbers in several major economies will blunt the recovery of an oil market already beleaguered by low demand, the International Energy Agency said.

Crude-laden tankers have been lining up for weeks at a time off China’s coast as ports struggle to handle the millions of barrels of inbound oil that have swamped the country’s overfilled storage sites.

The former head of Mexico’s state-oil company accused former president Enrique Peña Nieto and his former finance minister of instructing him to funnel bribes to the 2012 presidential campaign, the country’s Attorney General said.

Agency figures show the industry has long been the nation's largest emitter of methane.

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to end requirements that oil and gas producers detect and fix greenhouse-gas emissions.

As work moved from offices to home, so did electricity use. But overall consumption fell.