Bone does something better than most human-made materials: it bounces back after it breaks. Scientists report that cancellous bone displays unique material properties that allow it to recover shape after it breaks.

Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has reduced its 2016 capital budget by 22% compared with that of 2015 to $20.8 billion. The firm says the sharp decline in crude oil prices “poses serious liquidity problems” necessitating the downward revision.

An underground natural gas pipeline’s presence does not affect residential properties’ sales prices or insurability, a study commissioned by INGAA Foundation Inc. concluded. The study by Integra Realty Resources Inc. for the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America’s foundation based the finding on analysis of property sales in Ohio, New Jersey, Virginia, and Mississippi.

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.

The Indian government is considering incentives for development of high-cost natural gas resources.

Work has ceased on the Douglas Channel LNG project near Kitimat, BC.

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) confirmed the discovery of “good-quality” oil in reservoirs showing “excellent productivity” via its 3-BRSA-1305A-RJS well, also known as 3-RJS-739A, in the northwestern portion of the Libra block in the presalt Santos basin.