Enterprise Products Partners L.P. and Oiltanking Holding Americas, Inc. announced they have formed a joint venture to design, construct, own and operate a new Texas offshore crude oil port and pipeline system to facilitate delivery of waterborne crude oil to refining centers along the upper Texas Gulf Coast. The initiative will provide an efficient [...]

Petroleum companies are facing the hardest time with its biggest two-day drop in 17 years. Crude oil fell over $4 a barrel on Wednesday. A surprise increase as the government announced and showed the data, especially in The U.S. James Williams, an economist at energy research firm WTRG Economics, said that If there is [...]

The Energy Department raised its outlook for the average price of a barrel of crude and a gallon of gasoline this year.
The Energy Information Administration’s Short-Term Energy Outlook now say oil will average $127 a barrel this year, up from the $122 a barrel forecast in last month’s report. The EIA expects gasoline to average [...]

U.S. imports of Venezuelan oil fell 11.7 percent during the first four months of the year compared to the same period last year, according to the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration.
Analysts think the decline is partly due to stagnating Venezuelan oil production and overall lower crude imports by the U.S.

The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that natural-gas inventories held in underground storage in the lower 48 states rose by 90 billion cubic feet to over 2.03 trillion cubic feet for the week ending June 20.
The inventory level was slightly below the five-year average of 2.09 trillion cubic feet, [...]

The Energy Information Administration says data on railroad car loadings shows U.S. coal production totaled about 21.3 million tons during the week ended June 14. The estimate is 2.4 percent lower than the previous week, and 6.6 percent lower than the estimate reported for the comparable week in 2007.
Production east of the Mississippi River totaled [...]

The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that natural gas inventories in the lower 48 states rose by 57 billion cubic feet to over 1.94 trillion cubic feet for the week ending June 13.
The inventory level was slightly below the five-year average of about 2 trillion cubic feet and well below [...]

Crude-oil inventories fell last week for the fifth straight week, while gasoline stockpiles unexpectedly dropped.
For the week ended June 13, crude-oil inventories fell by 1.2 million barrels, or 0.4 percent, to 301 million barrels — 14.2 percent below year-ago levels, the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report.
Analysts expected a larger draw [...]

The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that natural gas inventories held in underground storage in the lower 48 states rose by 80 billion cubic feet to nearly 1.89 trillion cubic feet for the week ending June 6.
The inventory level was slightly below the five-year average of about 1.91 trillion [...]

Crude oil inventories fell by 4.6 million barrels last week to 302.2 million barrels — 13.5 percent below year-ago levels, the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its weekly report.
Analysts expected a draw of only 1.4 million barrels, accorgding to a survey by Platts, the energy research arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.
Gasoline inventories rose [...]