Does law matter in the US, or does it not? That question, not the incoherent wishes of protestors trying to block completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, deserves urgent attention. Source: News

Crude oil prices on the New York and London markets began the week on the rise, reflecting renewed optimism over the possibility that an agreement limiting production will be reached in Vienna at the Nov. 30 meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Source: News

Black Sea Oil & Gas SRL (BSOG), Bucharest, a subsidiary of Carlyle Investment Management LLC’s Carlyle International Energy Partners LP, Washington, DC, has let a contract to Xodus Group Ltd., Aberdeen, to provide front-end engineering and design of offshore and onshore installations for its Midia gas development project in the Black Sea offshore Romania. […]

After a very intense presidential election in the US on Nov. 8, oil prices dropped as Republican candidate Donald J. Trump’s win over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton became apparent. Source: News

The session at the Gas Technology Institute’s 2016 Methane Emissions Conference in Alexandria, Va., officially was supposed to examine North American policies and regulations.  Source: News

ExxonMobil Corp. has informed the Guyanese government that it intends to fast-track development of the Liza discovery on the 6.6 million-acre Stabroek block. The company’s partners, Nexen Energy ULC and Hess Corp., gave Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman notice of the discovery’s commercial quantities early last week. Source: News

Texas now “swims” in 20 billion bbl of crude oil that the US Geological Survey has “discovered” in the Pennsylvanian-Permian Wolfcamp shale of West Texas. Source: News

Spartan Energy Corp. has agreed to acquire all of the southeast Saskatchewan assets belonging to fellow Calgary firm ARC Resources Ltd. for $700 million in cash. Source: News