Oil and Gas

As a review of programs at the U.S. Department of Interiors begins, the Biden administration has suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on public lands and waters. The suspension will last 60 days as the review is underway.

The new President wasted no time in revoking the construction permit for the 1,700-mile-long project that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

Almost everyone is paying $2.00 or more for a gallon of regular gas. This could be good news for jobs in the oil and gas industry.

The strike happened Saturday morning at the Indorama facility in Sulphur.

The oil field service company says the 36 positions were eliminated earlier this month.

The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office says evacuation orders were not necessary.

Oil is trading in the low twenties and President of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association Gifford Briggs says the situation is dire.

There have been changes made in how the proposed Lake Charles LNG Project between Shell and Energy Transfer will proceed.

The incident happened at the Citgo Refinery in Sulphur on Monday afternoon.

A fire has been reported at one of Baton Rouge's major refineries. So far no injuries or evacuations have been reported.

The incident was handled quickly and efficiently by the plant's emergency response team. Thankfully there were no injuries.

The attacks on oil and gas platforms and supply vessels have become more commonplace in recent years.

The blast Sunday morning was reportedly heard from over 30 miles away.

If approved the new facility could mean up to 2,000 construction jobs for South Louisiana.

The leak reportedly happened within the first 48 hours of production at the Hackberry facility.

The proposed 252-mile-long pipeline would run from extreme southwest Louisiana all the way to Delhi.

The most we could have gotten is $176 million. We budgeted for $140 million. We're getting $82 million. That's why we're broke.

Political unrest in the Middle East and tighter production restrictions from OPEC and Russia could help to bring the oil industry back into the black.

National oil and gas companies are pitching in to help victims of Hurricane Harvey.

When will we all get back to work and will the Governor's tax plan put us deeper in the hole? Those are questions Louisiana residents would really to have answered.