Coalition officials recently released details on the latest Operation Inherent Resolve offensives against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Read More »

LONGBOW LLC, a Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman joint venture, recently won a $57.1 million foreign military-sale contract from the U.S. Army to supply LONGBOW Fire Control Radar (FCR) systems for the India air force's new Apache AH-64E helicopters. Read More »

Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti recently handed over command of U.S. Forces Korea, United Nations Command and Combined Forces Command to Army Gen. Vincent Brooks in a ceremony at Yongsan Garrison in South Korea. Read More »

BOS Shelf LLC, Saipem Contracting Netherlands B.V. and Star Gulf FZCO consortium recently were awarded a $1.5 billion contract from the Shah Deniz consortium to transport and install deep-water production systems for the Shah Deniz stage 2 project, a pipeline operated by British Petroleum (BP) that feeds natural gas from the Shah Deniz gas field, under the Caspian Sea, to European markets. Read More »

Iran and S. Korea recently struck a deal in which South Korea's KOGAS will conduct technical studies and develop Iran’s Balal natural gas field in the Persian Gulf. Read More »

Cenovus Energy Inc. recently welcomed Richard Marcogilese and Rhonda Zygocki to its board of directors following its annual shareholders meeting, which also saw the retirement of Ralph Cunningham and the election of nine others to the board. Read More »

Finishing a process that began with a divestment agreement in March 2015, Shell recently completed the sale of Dansk Fuels in Denmark, which was sold to Couche-Tard in a $300 million deal, pending regulatory approval from the European Commission. Read More »

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) recently highlighted environmental policies driven by the Obama administration that it said are placing an economic burden on entrepreneurs and small businesses. Read More »

Elisabeth Treseder, formerly an American Petroleum Institute policy adviser for the midstream department in Washington, D.C., has been named an associate director of the Massachusetts Petroleum Council (MPC), an API division. Read More »

Trapper Mining Inc. recently received final approval from the Department of the Interior on its Environmental Assessment (EA), which was developed by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) after a lawsuit from WildEarth Guardians. Read More »

BAE Systems recently was awarded a $29.4 million U.S. Navy contract to provide maintenance services for the USS Gettysburg (CG 64). Read More »

Peter Langley, formerly deputy chief of staff and legislative director for Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, will be the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) new executive director of API-Michigan. Read More »

CACI International will continue supporting the U.S. Army Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) through its Development, Engineering and Protection Services (DEPS) project, following a recent multi-million-dollar task order. Read More »

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) recently released “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State,” which shows that federal regulations and interventions cost U.S. consumers and the economy $1.885 trillion in 2015. Read More »

Following a Colorado Supreme Court decision that maintains the state’s primacy in oil and natural gas permitting, Colorado Petroleum Council Executive Director Tracee Bentley celebrated the decision, which removes the threat of federal bans on hydraulic fracturing. Read More »

The American Petroleum Institute's (API) New York executive director, Karen Moreau, recently criticized the state's policies regarding hydraulic fracturing and natural gas pipelines. Read More »

Karen Mouritsen, who previously has worked in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Interior Department, will take over as the BLM Eastern States Office director on May 31, succeeding John Ruhs, who became the BLM Nevada state director last year. Read More »

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity recently used National Train Day to highlight how environmental regulations are harming the U.S. coal industry and could impact the nation’s rail system, where coal takes up a very large chunk of rail tonnage. Read More »

Quay County, New Mexico, is the site of Duke Energy Renewables' new solar energy project, the Caprock Solar Power Project, on which the company recently began construction. Read More »

The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced two energy bills this week that aim to help states implement new federal ozone standards and develop advanced nuclear-reactor technology. Read More »