Michael R. Bromwich prepares to finish 17 months at the US Department of the Interior satisfied that necessary reforms were beginning to be made at a troubled agency there, but concerned that their permanence may be threatened by funding cuts, he said 2 days before stepping down as head of what formerly was the US Minerals Management Service.

Researchers outline the first practical demonstration of carbon nanotube transistor based printed circuits for display backplane applications revealing CNT's viable candidacy as a competing technology alongside amorphous silicon and metal oxide semiconductor solution as a low-cost and scalable backplane option.

Libya’s oil output has reached 750,000 b/d and is on track to reach prewar production of 1.6 million b/d by yearend 2012, according to the chairman of the state-owned National Oil Corp.

South African energy and chemicals company Sasol reported it has approved a feasibility study for a world-scale ethylene cracker and derivatives complex in Lake Charles, La.

EOG Resources Inc. expects to begin drilling at the Vaca Muerta oil shale in Argentina's Neuquen basin within weeks, EOG Chief Executive Officer Mark Papa said Nov. 30 during an investors presentation at Jefferies 2011 Global Energy Conference in Houston.

Total SA plans to challenge the French government's decision to cancel its exploration permit for a shale gas field in the Montelimar region of southern France.