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Confusion and concern reigned as Enron Corp. Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and began laying off an estimated 4,000 employees in Houston this week. The total collapse of Houston's [...]

Recruiters in Houston say a 'flood' of resumes from Enron Corp. executives and managers is now flowing to search firms and other companies. According to industry insiders, more chief executives, [...]

When Robert Reese worked for a local bank, he had visions of snaring James Coney Island as a client. 'I was raised on JCI as a kid in the '60s [...]

Evelyn Biery has a passion for global bankruptcy law, a taste for fine dining and a sweet tooth for chocolate. The head of the bankruptcy section at Fulbright & Jaworski [...]

When Gerald Smith graduated from Texas Southern University's School of Business 27 years ago, he had a tough time finding any minorities in the investment banking profession - especially in [...]

Media attorney Chip Babcock has played leading legal roles as Oprah's advocate, Wayne's warrior Houston media attorney Charles 'Chip' Babcock is known for having a great sense of humor among [...]

The management of nonprofit performing arts organizations has never been more challenging - or more highly professional - than it is today, say the administrators of Houston's major performing arts [...]

The oldest continuously practicing law firm in Texas - Galveston-based Mills, Shirley, Eckel & Bassett LLP - has 'weathered both dramatic gales and balmy days on the island. And, through [...]

Economic development and environmental progress in Mexico took a nosedive this year as the peso crisis stifled the forward momentum so recently spurred by Nafta. But the setback seems to [...]

The oil producing industry is all set to find and produce large new reserves of oil and gas in deepwater areas of Gulf of Mexico. The deep water is one area in the US attracting billions of investment dollars, that has produced more than 960,000 barrels of oil per day in 2003, nearly one-sixth of total US crude oil production, and equal to Alaskan North Slope oil.

Houston, Texas tempory staffing agencies are affected adversely by the fall of Enron. These staffing firms have lost millions of dollars in lost business.

Centennial Pipeline LLC of Houston is nearing completion of its $60 million Centennial Pipeline project, a joint venture among Marathon Ashland Petroleum - an Ohio affiliate of Houston-based Marathon - [...]

Two Houston-area businessmen have pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to falsify test results on hundreds of millions of gallons of gasoline that did not meet federal standards for [...]

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is preparing to issue new regulations on how interstate natural gas pipeline operators and power transmitters conduct business, and especially how they relate to their [...]

A Houston company is creating a one-two-punch by turning cow manure into electricity while mitigating a growing nationwide. problem of water and air pollution caused by livestock wastes. Synagro Technologies, [...]

Altra Energy Technologies, a Houston-based provider of online trading systems and management software for the energy industry, has agreed to sell its 'back-office' management software business to New York-based Caminus [...]

Two law practices are opening offices in Houston this month. Veteran Houston energy attorney Alan Gover is starting up a Houston office for the New York-based international law firm Dewey [...]

Houston-based oil and gas producer Burlington Resources will continue to pursue smaller acquisitions in Canada following its $2.1 billion deal last week to acquire Canadian Hunter Exploration Ltd., says Bobby [...]

Nyle Stoddard and a business colleague drove from Utah to Houston recently for a seminar on cyber-security. Air travel problems caused by the terrorist attacks prevented a number of registered [...]

Forbes magazines current issue, featuring 'The 400 Richest People in America,' includes Selim Zilkha, who with his son Michael, owns a Houston-based wind energy company called Zilkha Renewable Energy. The [...]

Houston-based Paragon Engineering Services is providing engineering, design and procurement services to Houston-based Williams Gas Pipeline Co. for Williams' Sundance expansion project, which will supply additional natural gas to the [...]

A new technology that will enable oil and gas companies to economically drill for oil in the ultra-deep water of the Gulf of Mexico is now being tested in the [...]

A group of five lawyers from the Houston law firm Greenberg Peden, including name partner David Peden, has joined Porter & Hedges as the 31-year-old Greenberg Peden firm dissolves. Peden, [...]

As natural gas prices soared last winter to as high as $10 per million Btus, at least 17 projects to build new liquefied natural gas terminals in the U.S. were [...]

A unit of Reliant Energy Resources is about to make 'a very large investment' in generating equipment that will turn organic landfill gases into electricity. And a British energy company [...]

Devon Energy Corp. and The Woodlands-based Mitchell Energy and Development Corp. plan to amend their merger agreement to take into consideration drastically changed stock prices. The purpose of the amendment [...]

A round-the-world cruise usually doesn't last 15 years. But a shipload of ash waste belonging to Houston-based Waste Management Inc. has been stranded at sea since 1986, traveling from one [...]

Houston firms deal with delayed IPOs, postponed cases Houston lawyers and their clients have been affected in a variety of ways by the terrorist attacks in New York. Nick Barzoukas, [...]

Energy analysts at the Houston office of Raymond James & Associates equity research firm believe there is an 80 percent probability of oil supply disruptions in the next two years [...]

Two new competitors have entered Texas deregulated electricity market with plans to begin selling electricity -- and possibly other products and services -- to residential customers in Houston and other [...]

Nyle Stoddard and a business. colleague drove from Utah to Houston last week for a seminar on cyber-security. Air travel problems caused by the terrorist attacks prevented a number of [...]

The stocks of both the oilfield services and the exploration and production sectors of the oil and gas industry continued falling to new 52-week lows at midweek. On Monday -- [...]

As the U.S. government pursues the support of Arab and Muslim-dominated nations to combat terrorism, the media keeps score as to which foreign governments have sided with the United States, [...]

A reader called this week wanting to know how many refineries there are in the Houston area. She thought about them after last week's terrorist attack, and figured they also [...]

Businesses, municipalities scramble to re-vamp safety plans in wake of terrorist attacks Many are wondering how high. up Houston maybe on terrorists' target lists. The city's concentration of energy company [...]

Slumping demand for natural gas due in part to a cooler-than-usual summer has natural gas prices in the pits. Analysts believe prices will average $2.80 per million cubic feet during [...]

Schlumberger Oilfield Services, based in Houston, has acquired German consulting firm Kavernen Bauund Betriebs GmbH, which specializes in engineering, construction and project management of facilities for the underground storage of [...]

Another new business unit that, will setup shop in Houston was announced last week by Norsk Hydro USA Oil & Gas Inc., which has entered into a joint venture with [...]

The energy trading arm of one of Europe's largest utility companies, RWE Group, has made a splash in the energy trading sector by creating a North American. trading entity -- [...]

TV commercials tout mundane products ranging from clothes and laundry detergents to cosmetic and prescription drugs. Now, energy companies like Enron and Dynegy are taking to the airwaves. But they're [...]

In spite of problems getting Texas' electricity deregulation program off the ground and doubts about savings for residential customers, there is no question that large commercial power customers in Texas [...]

Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, is planning a $16.3 million expansion of its Pasadena and Galena Park liquids terminals facility. The upgrade is being [...]

Phenomenally successful Enron Corp. - dubbed by some in the industry as 'The Evil Empire' has been a continuing source of mystery and speculation in the industry. What really goes [...]

Houston-based Pegasus International, an engineering and construction consulting company serving the oil and gas industry, recently completed an innovative project for Chevron U.S.A. Production Co. that helped Chevron save cost [...]

Chief executives of Global Marine and Santa Fe International say a merger of the major drilling companies will put them in a stronger position to weather the ups and downs [...]

Kvaerner Oilfield Products is building a 10,000-square-foot research and development laboratory at the company's manufacturing plant on North Post Oak Road. Billed as a state-of-the-art facility, the $1 million laboratory [...]

A coalition of consumer advocacy organizations has asked the Public Utility Commission to require more financial accountability from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERGOT), the independent system operator for [...]