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It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal,” former secretary of state Henry Kissinger ...

Along with the Orca Migration Event, the other prominent notable inclusion in the post-Atlantis update was the addition of a brand new landmark called Oil Rig/Refinery on the map. This new territory ...

Kuwait Petroleum Corp.’s oil trading unit appointed company veteran Abdullatif Almukhaizeem as chief executive officer, taking the division closer to starting operations just as a clutch of Gulf ...

- Container buildings in Pointe-Noire to be used by engineers working on Moho offshore oil project, one of largest petroleum ventures launched in country ...

U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for the first time in eight weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Jan. 31. The oil and gas rig ...

U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for the first time in eight weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday. The oil and gas rig count ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, after a 4-rig drop in each of the two ...

For the week ended Jan. 31, the rig count in Canada stood at 258, according to Baker Hughes data. There were 12 additional oil-directed rigs working in Canada and 1 additional gas-directed rig ...

The number of rigs seeking crude oil jumped seven rigs to 479, the biggest weekly increase since February 2023, but 40 rigs or 4% below the 499 reported last year and down four rigs for the month.

One goal mentioned was increasing baseload power generation to help reduce electric bills for individuals and businesses as well as prevent blackouts and brownouts.