IHS Inc. (IHS) recently agreed to buy a geophysical software producer for half a billion dollars.

Financial services firm Raymond James announced on September 13 that it is reluctantly downgrading Geokinetics Inc. (GOK:AMEX) to Market Perform from Outperform based on a recent accident in Mexico which caused at least three deaths.

The 49th parallel isn't just a border between Canada and the United States. It also represents an important line for the amount of debt investors are willing to tolerate in their energy producers. Investors and CEOs have both learned the hard way. Canadian producers with more than 2X debt to...

Editor's Note:  Everyone, it seems, is talking about the Keystone pipeline. Recently I wrote a story on a mostly unexplored topic in the U.S gas price debate – a problem that could soon affect oil refineries and the price consumers pay for gas on America's east and west coasts....

Investors can’t say definitively that the price of oil bottomed in the third week of March, but some very recent data  released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that supports the premise that a bottom is in.  More on that in a moment. From a low near $43 per barrel...

For the week ending October 7, the number of U.S. rigs used for drilling related to natural gas and crude oil increased surpassed 2,000 for the first time since the week ending September 19, 2008.

TransCanada, an Alberta-based energy company, recently shot back at criticism about its pipeline route choice from U.S. senators.

Although hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activity may require substantial amounts of water, the impact on the water resources in Texas may not be as bad as some market observers think.