U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), increased by 6.2 million barrels from the week ending March 6 to the week ending March 13.
The Texas Railroad Commission spent two years working to secure the authority to issue the permits energy companies need to inject and store carbon dioxide underground, a power previously held by the federal government.
Curious Minds Corner
What nationality was Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the compression-ignition engine?
Rudolf Diesel was German; his experiments led to the origin of diesel fuel.