MarketWatch5 Scenarios That Could Push Oil Prices Back to $100Motley FoolOil prices have been stubbornly weak this year, spending much of the time below $50 a barrel when many expected it to be well over that level by now. However, while oil remains comfor …

BloombergBattle for Iraq's Future Unfolds Around 90-Year-Old Oil FieldBloombergFederal government troops and forces from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region are facing off in Kirkuk province in northern Iraq. Baghdad wants control of the area's oil …

BloombergKurdish Oil Keeps Flowing Despite Baghdad's Threats Over KirkukBloombergExports of about 600,000 barrels a day of crude from Kirkuk's oil fields and from deposits inside the adjacent Kurdish region continued as usual through a Kurd-control …

BloombergIraq Plan to Fix Oil Pipeline to Turkey Bypasses, Isolates KurdsBloombergIraq's oil minister ordered urgent repairs to a disused pipeline from northern fields to a Turkish port, a step that could eliminate the central government's need to …

BloombergIraq Says Chevron, Total Want to Work in Giant Majnoon Oil FieldBloombergIraq hasn't started negotiations with Chevron and Total, which have expressed readiness to work on the 200,000-barrel-a-day field, al-Luaibi told reporters in Baghdad. Sh …

BloombergIraq Says Chevron, Total Want to Work at Majnoon Oil FieldBloomberg“It's not our policy to comment on market rumors or speculation,” a Chevron spokesman said. Shell said in an emailed statement Monday that Iraq's oil minister “formally end …

BloombergIraq Says Turkey Backs Baghdad in Feud Over Kurd Oil ExportsBloombergThe comments suggest the Turks may be reviewing their policy of letting Iraq's landlocked Kurds export oil independently through the same pipeline. Crude was flowing normally …

BloombergOil Soars as Supply Disruption Looms Amid Kurdish BallotingBloombergKurdish oil supplies may be in jeopardy as Turkey, Iran and the Iraqi central government in Baghdad sought to isolate the semi-autonomous Kurds as balloting began on Monday. Meanw …

Iraq: Suicide attack near oil-rich Basra kills at least 8ABC NewsA suicide bombing near the oil-rich city of Basra killed at least eight people as the Islamic State group took the fight against Iraqi forces deep into the country's south, a military com …

The New YorkerWhen Oil Transport Goes Off the RailsThe New YorkerIn the next half hour, it emerged—from Twitter, phone calls, and e-mails from my daughter's elementary school—that a Union Pacific train carrying crude oil had derailed near the small tow …