Energy

DIF Capital Partners, a global infrastructure investment fund manager, today announced an agreement to acquire Bernhard, LLC, the New Orleans-based energy services firm owned by Baton Rouge-based private equity firm Bernhard Capital Partners.

Nearly every other major oil company has abandoned algae research after a flurry of investment at the start of the last decade yielded few results. It’s another example of how ExxonMobil appears to be on a divergent path from its peers. 

A power outage on Baton Rouge Metro Airport property that began Friday night and continued into Saturday, shut down fuel pumps at the airport and forced four commercial flights to make unplanned stops at other airports to refuel.

President Joe Biden’s administration says it has followed a court order to schedule an...

The union members who work behind the scenes in film and television will vote this weekend on whether to authorize an unprecedented strike that could shut down most of the industry nationwide. 

The streetlights have been a problem for months that continues to get worse, yet City Hall and Entergy are at something of an impasse over how to fix them. Why? It’s complicated.

The recent increase in the price of oil could lead to increases in production and jobs, but the change isn’t showing up in the data yet, the acting president for a state industry group says. 

Shortages are cutting into one of the humblest yet most vital links in the global manufacturing supply chain: The plastic pellets that go into a vast universe of products ranging from cereal bags to medical devices, automotive interiors to bicycle helmets. 

A team of searchers from LSU and the University of Delaware are working to develop chemical manufacturing processes that use CO2 feedstocks and renewable energy sources instead of natural gas or petroleum. 

U.S. soybean exports jumped to a six-month peak last week while corn shipments were...