The U.S. energy complex including the growth of natural-gas drilling is "a game changer" that could contribute to global economic growth and promote jobs, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris told CNBC.
U.S. crude futures may test $100 a barrel this week - possibly breaching triple digits - after an attack against a gas facility in OPEC member Algeria on Wednesday escalated into an international hostage crisis, leading to renewed fears that supply may be disrupted in other politically-unstable parts of North and West Africa.
It has been a harrowing start to 2013 for the global energy industry. BP, Statoil and the joint operators of the In Amenas natural gas plant in Algeria are slowly coming to terms with last week's brutal 4-day occupation of the isolated desert facility where 38 mainly foreign hostages were killed by Islamist militants.