Oil prices edged higher, helped by weakness in the dollar, although gains were capped as concerns mounted over a US slowdown ...

In the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Congress encouraged companies to go deep as early as 1995. That year it passed a law forgiving royalties on deepwater oil fields leased between 1996 and 2000.

Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th ...

Burke Chair reports on Saudi Arabia, the GCC, and the Gulf examine a wide range of topics related to a region of critical importance for strategic, energy, economic, and defense and security issues ...