Total crude oil production in Texas recorded nearly a 3 percent decline year-on-year for May, a state energy regulator reported. The Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s energy regulator, said that overall crude oil production was lower than last year. “Texas preliminary May 2016 crude oil production averaged 2,359,072 barrels ... Read More »
Estimated quarterly earnings for Exxon Mobil Corp. were down about 60 percent from last year, the company said, pointing to sharply lower energy prices. Exxon reported second quarter earnings at $1.7 billion, compared with $4.2 billion during the same quarter for 2015. “While our financial results reflect a volatile industry ... Read More »
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina’s requirement that voters show identification before casting ballots and reinstated an additional week of early voting, finding that legislators had acted with “discriminatory intent” in imposing strict election rules. The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of ... Read More »
a further attempt to tighten censorship, China this week said it was investigatingeight of the nation’s high-profile Internet companies for “serious violations” of rules on who may report and publish news, ordering them to shut down or “clean up” their websites immediately. Just as millions of Americans turn to Google and ... Read More »
A week after the TSR Subramanian committee’s draft report on the New Education Policy (NEP) was leaked, the human resource development ministry is in two minds whether to adopt or reject its recommendations. A section in the ministry is inclined to completely scrap the report and set up a ... Read More »
Nearly half of gay and lesbian couples living together in the United States are married a year after the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage across the country, according to a Gallup study released on Wednesday. The percentage of married cohabiting same-sex couples, as opposed to couples living ... Read More »
A federal judge has struck down the Obama administration’s rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands, a victory for oil and gas producers and state regulators who opposed the rules as an egregious overreach. The ruling, which the White House vowed to appeal, halts the administration’s efforts to address what ... Read More »
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted down a Republican-backed proposal to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s secretive surveillance powers after the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub last week. The measure followed the Senate’s rejection on Monday of four measures that would have restricted gun sales. During Wednesday’s ... Read More »
Another U.S. bank is now offering a low down payment mortgage. Wells Fargo introduced the yourFirstMortgage program Thursday that offers home loans for up to $417,000 with down payments as little as 3%. The San Francisco-based bank said the program is aimed at helping low- and moderate-income people and first-time ... Read More »
The variety of oil and herbal gas drilling permits issued with the aid of Texas regulators in April changed into lower 12 months-on-12 months by using 20 percentage, kingdom statistics display. The Railroad fee of Texas stated it issued 683 authentic drilling permits in April, in comparison with 848 from ... Read More »
Oil operations on the coronary heart of Canadian manufacturing facilities are shut down as a result ofwildfires raging thru Alberta, electricity companies stated. Canadian energy organization Suncor, which operates one in every of the biggest production facilitiesin the united states, said it close down operations at its base plant in ... Read More »
Dreamworks Animation’s chief executive and co-founder, Jeffrey Katzenberg, will step down to headDreamWorks New Media in a $3.8 billion cope with Comcast’s NBCUniversal, the corporation introducedThursday. In selling the studio to NBCUniversal, DreamWorks Animation stockholders will receive $41 in cash for everyproportion of DreamWorks Animation not unusual stock. Katzenberg will ... Read More »
