Sunday, August 23, 2026

Britain Adds Financial Health Check to Frac Permit Process

From Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is tightening controls on firms hoping to carry out hydraulic fracking in parts of the country by adding a financial health check to the application process, the government said on Thursday. Substantial amounts of shale gas are estimated to be trapped in underground rocks and the British government wants to exploit them to help

BP Names New President of U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Canada

BP appointed Starlee Sykes as its regional president for the Gulf of Mexico and Canada, effective Feb. 1, 2018. Sykes, who will continue to be based in Houston, currently serves as vice president for BP’s global projects organization for offshore projects.   “Starlee is uniquely qualified to take on this important role, with more than 20 years of upstream experience

Cities Ranking Atop Amazon’s List include Dallas in 1st Place, Denver in 6th: WSJ

From the Denver Post It has been more than a month since the New York Times crowned Denver winner of Amazon’s HQ2 sweepstakes. While the tech giant has been mulling 238 proposals it received from metropolitan areas across North America — including Denver — in response to its open call for sites for a future $5 billion, 50,000-employee second headquarters, the Mile High City