...States consumed 18.8 million barrels per day of petroleum products during 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Shell's drilling plan calls for two exploratory wells by the Kulluk in the Beaufort Sea and three exploratory...

...is a little more than one-fourth of the oil the U.S. consumes each year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In basins where shale oil is already produced, Houseknecht said, there is a certainty that productivity...

...make Alaska's oil tax competitive in 2011 -- especially since we have just learned of the United States Energy Information Administration's estimate that Alaska's natural gas line will not be competitive for another 20 years. Frank Murkowski...

...dampening effect on global oil demand, it still is expected to show significant growth this year,'' the Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department's statistical arm, noted in its weekly commentary on oil markets. The agency...