IN WORLD'S HOTTEST OIL PATCH, FEARS ARE MOUNTING THAT A BUST IS NEAR

It covers 75,000 square miles, nearly the size of Great Britain, in west Texas and southeastern New Mexico... READ MORE›

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ACTRESS SHAILENE WOODLEY FILMS OWN ARREST

Actress Shailene Woodley livestreams her arrest near an oil pipeline construction site in North Dakota to more than one million followers on social media... READ MORE›

A $900 BILLION OIL TREASURE LIES BENEATH WEST TEXAS DESERT

The Wolfcamp shale also holds 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 1.6 billion barrels of gas liquids, the geological survey said in a statement on Tuesday... READ MORE›

JUDGE REFUSES TO BLOCK DAKOTA PIPELINE

A press conference is scheduled by the protesters later on Friday in Bismarck, North Dakota... READ MORE›

SAUDI ARABIA HIKES PETROL PRICES BY 40% AT THE PUMP

Saudi Arabia hikes petrol prices by 40 percent at the pump... READ MORE›

HUGE DEPOSIT OF UNTAPPED OIL COULD BE LARGEST EVER DISCOVERED IN US

A huge deposit of untapped oil, possibly the largest ever discovered in the US, has been identified by the US Geological Survey USGS in west Texas... READ MORE›

The only major United States antagonist not hurt by the drop in oil prices is North Korea, which imports all of its petroleum... READ MORE›

GAS PRICE FELL TO 47 CENTS PER GALLON AT ONE MICHIGAN SITE

A Marathon gas station also located in Houghton Lake also sold fuel for 95 cents a gallon on Sunday, GasBuddy reported... READ MORE›

NORTH DAKOTA'S PIPE DREAMS ARE THE KEY TO ITS FUTURE

Without the Dakota Access Pipeline, North Dakota's abundant but hard-to-reach oil resources likely won't be fully developed, potentially leaving millions of barrels in the ground... READ MORE›

ON THE BALLOT TWO CLASHING VISIONS OF HOW AMERICA WILL POWER ITS CARS HOMES

Critics have said Trump's plan to revive natural gas drilling would finish off the very coal industry he promises to restore, because the two fuels compete... READ MORE›

WATCH OUT OPEC THE AMERICANS ARE COMING

Low-cost production has grown in the Permian Basin, while output has declined in the Bakken and Eagle Ford regions... READ MORE›

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST OIL KINGDOM REVERSES COURSE

In an effort to get prices off the mat, Saudi Arabia looks to pull back on the amount of crude it pumps... READ MORE›

A BLADE STRIKES STEEL, AND THE BLAST SHOCKS A NATION'S ENERGY SYSTEM

Two accidents in alabama show how heavily millions rely on the colonial pipeline for gasoline... READ MORE›

AMERICA'S BEST OIL FIELD IS THRIVING

Frackers are still turning a profit in Texas' Permian Basin... READ MORE›

U.S., CANADA ABORIGINAL TRIBES FORM ALLIANCE TO STOP OIL PIPELINES

Last week the U.S. Justice Department intervened to delay construction of the pipeline in North Dakota... READ MORE›

GOOD NEWS FOR MOTORISTS AS PETROL PRICES PREDICTED TO FALL

Petrol prices may fall below the A?1 per litre mark, as world oil prices continue to tumble... READ MORE›

MARKET FORCES ALIGN AGAINST OILSANDS THOUGH INNOVATION PROMISES AN UPSIDE

Also announced oilsands expansions in the past two months... READ MORE›

$85 OIL BY CHRISTMAS? THIS ANALYST SAYS YES

That was a way-out-of-consensus call to make a year-ago when most pundits vigorously argued non-OPEC production would still expand even with the drop in oil prices... READ MORE›

INSIDE OPEC ROOM, NAIMI DECLARES PRICE WAR ON U.S. SHALE OIL

Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi talks to journalists before a meeting of OPEC oil ministers at OPEC's headquarters in Vienna November 27, 2014... READ MORE›

SOMEONE BOUGHT A 'RELATIVELY CHEAP LOTTERY TICKET' THAT WILL PAY OFF IF OIL HITS $100

Still, the bet is tiny put in the context of the global oil market... READ MORE›

LOW OIL PRICES WON'T HURT RENEWABLE ENERGY, SAYS US EIA

Most of America's electricity comes from coal and natural gas not oil so the cheap global oil prices would not have an immediate effect, Sieiminski said... READ MORE›

KEY PLAYERS IN DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE FIGHT

Dave Archambault II leads the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation on the North Dakota-South Dakota border sits close to the pipeline's path... READ MORE›

LESSONS FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL FRONT LINE

The Dakota pipeline protests have drawn indigenous people from across the Americas. But everyone else needs to understand it's their fight too... READ MORE›

DRILLING FOR ARCTIC OIL IS NOT VIABLE YET, SAYS IEA CHIEF

He warned governments to consider the potential risks, including those of climate change and pollution... READ MORE›

SAUDI ARABIA GOVERNMENT OVERHAUL SEES OIL MINISTER REMOVED

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has removed the country's veteran oil minister as part of a broad government overhaul... READ MORE›

AS OIL PRICES TANK, NEW ERA OF ABUNDANCE SEEN DAWNING

As oil prices tank new era of abundance seen dawning... READ MORE›

MIDDLE EAST STOCK MARKETS CRASH AS IRAN ENTERS OIL WAR

Saudi Arabia's stock market crashed yesterday as nuclear sanctions on Iran were lifted, clearing the path for an all-out oil war between the Middle Eastern rivals... READ MORE›

SLUMP IN OIL PRICES DRIVES GREEN ENERGY TAKEUP IN TOP EXPORTING NATIONS

Oil exporters would rather sell their fossil fuels abroad than burn them at home, government officials attending meetings of the International Renewable Energy Agency Irena said... READ MORE›

HOW THE CRASH IN OIL PRICES DEVASTATED ANGOLA AND VENEZUELA

Josh Partlow When I ask that question to people who follow Venezuela closely, most tip the scale towards poor governance... READ MORE›

WORLD CARBON EMISSIONS STOPPED GROWING IN 2015, SAYS BP

Move towards renewable energy and away from coal power helped stall emissions growth last year but slowdown may be temporary, says oil giant... READ MORE›

CANADA MAY FACE ERA OF PIPELINE ABUNDANCE AFTER KEYSTONE MOVE

The administration moved to expedite approval and construction of the Keystone XL pipeline as well as the Dakota Access line through North Dakota... READ MORE›