Lincoln Brown is the former News and Program Director for KVEL radio in Vernal, Utah. He hosted “The Lincoln Brown Show” and was penned a column for Townhall.com. During his 21 years in radio, he lived in the heart of oil and gas country, and covered stories in the energy industry on a regular basis.
An uptick in drilling activity aimed at reaching shale and tight gas, tough environmental rules, and the lower price of crude oil are all factors…
Algeria has increased its oil output at the Hassi Messaoud and Ourhoud oil fields over the last few months in an effort to compensate for…
Turkmenistan, which is home to the fourth largest natural gas reserves on the globe has abolished the Ministry of Oil and Natural Gas, and the…
On the heels of a hydrogen sulfide release in May at the Exxon Mobil plant in Baytown, Texas, which resulted in the workers sheltering in…
The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology has issued subpoenas to the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts in a climate change…
After an accident in June in which eleven cars from an oil train derailed in Oregon, the US Department of Transportation has proposed a new…
The Iraqi-Kurdistan-focused energy company Gulf Keystone Petroleum has announced that it has appointed a new chairman, as the company begins a restructuring process designed to…
India has discovered 67 oil and gas fields, and wants to find out if anyone is interested in developing them. Dharmendra Pradhan, India’s Minister of…
The Nigerian trade union, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has suspended its strike. About 10,000 members of the Union, which…
The solar-powered plane, the Solar Impulse 2 will soon begin the last leg of its flight around the world. The plane landed in Cairo after…
The largest oil company in Asia, Sinopec, reports that 500 of its gas stations in China were closed, and some refinery equipment has been shut…
A global survey released Monday by Ernst & Young shows that private equity firms are getting ready to invest more capital in the energy sector,…
In an effort to reduce its debt, Kinder Morgan is planning to sell a 50 percent of its stake in the Southern Natural Gas pipeline.…
The University of Cincinnati has retracted a study on pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing or fracking, according to Energy in Depth (EID). The researchers for…
China’s Xinhua news service is reporting the discovery of a large natural gas field in the Guizhou Province, located in the southwest part of the…
Libya is working to get crude oil flowing out of two shuttered terminals. Libya’s oil guards will work with the National Oil Corporation (NOC), the…
Saipem, an Italian offshore contractor, has won the rights to an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract in the Zohr gas field in the Mediterranean…
On Wednesday, Kinder Morgan (KMI) announced that it had reached a US$900-million deal to provide in-plant services to five Nucor plants. The plants are located…
The government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels announced plans to begin peace talks in March but the situation between the two…
Qatar’s exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to India and Pakistan grew by 50 percent annually over the first half of the year. LNG deliveries…