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 93 billion cubic feet to about 1.53 trillion cubic feet for the week ended May 9.
The inventory level was slightly above the five-year average, but well below last year’s storage [...]

In its weekly report, the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) said gasoline inventories fell by 1.7 million barrels, or 0.8 percent, to 210.2 million barrels last week — 5.9 percent above year-ago levels, the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report.
Analysts expected stockpiles of gasoline to fall by only 800,000 barrels, [...]

A senior Kuwaiti oil official says his country plans to spend $55 billion on oil projects in the next five years.
Jamal al-Nouri, managing director for planning at state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp., says the money will be used for production, refineries, and building new tankers. He says some will also be spent on oil investments in [...]

Oil prices fell after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and a government report said fuel supplies unexpectedly fell last week.
Light, sweet crude for June delivery fell $2.17 to settle at $113.46 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The Fed, as expected, said it will cut the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage [...]

The Bakken oil formation, which stretches across North Dakota, Montana and southeastern Saskatchewan, is suddenly drawing worldwide attention.
On Thursday, April 10, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published an official study on the massive Bakken reserve.
Among the agency’s findings:
* Up to 4.3 billion barrels of oil could be recovered from the Bakken shale formation — a [...]

A shale formation stretching North Dakota and Montana may have an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to a U.S. Geological Survey assessment.
Known as the Bakken Formation, the find would make the recoverable oil in North Dakota and Montana the largest U.S. oil reserves outside Alaska.
The recently released assessment shows [...]

Crude futures rolled past $115 a barrel, hitting a new record on concerns about how much gas will be available during the peak summer months. The weekly inventories report from the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed a much bigger decline in gasoline supplies than forecast by analysts surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires.
The report [...]

Oil prices steadied Wednesday above $113 a barrel after setting a record on growing concerns about insufficient global supply.
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Oil surged to an all-time high of $114.08 a barrel Tuesday after a high-profile report by the International Energy Agency said Russian oil production dropped this year for the first time in a decade.
Analysts said growing investor [...]

Oil prices hit all-time highs above $115 a barrel Thursday with reports that oil and gasoline stocks in the United States were lower than expected and as the dollar hit record lows.
Light, sweet crude for May delivery rose as high as $115.52 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It [...]

Oil prices hit an all-time high above $115 a barrel Thursday amid concerns about sagging U.S. gasoline supplies ahead of the peak demand of the Northern Hemisphere summer.
The U.S. Energy Department said Wednesday that inventories of gasoline fell 5.5 million barrels last week, a much bigger decline than forecast by analysts surveyed by Dow Jones [...]