Three US House Republicans from Mid-Atlantic coastal states asked US Interior Sec. Sally Jewell to keep all of the proposed area for an oil and gas lease sale off their states in the next 5-year US Outer Continental Shelf management program. Source: News

Weighed by lower commodity prices and asset impairments, a sample of 59 US-based oil and gas producers and refiners posted combined net losses of $39.98 billion in fourth-quarter 2015 compared with earnings of $9.56 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. Source: News

When federal agencies warn about “premature death,” Americans should hide their rainy-day funds. Gloomy officials never leave other people’s money alone. Source: News

Spring has officially sprung in Houston, and as happens every year for many of us, the signs of her arrival stir a strange sense of feeling torn between hopeful assurance about the sweetness of the days ahead but utter misery over the price our allergies will pay before those days are here. Source: News

Signs that the US Federal Reserve might boost interest rates this month provide a useful reminder that supply and demand don’t explain everything about oil prices. Source: News

PJSC Gazprom Neft said it recently conducted five multistage fracing operations in the eastern part of Orenburg oil and gas-condensate field in southwestern Russia. Source: News

Houston Refining LP, a wholly owned subsidiary of LyondellBasell Industries NV, has reported a fire at its 268,000-b/d full-conversion Houston refinery on the Houston Ship Channel. Source: News