WIREDPhoto of the Week: The Raging Inferno of Iraq's Oil FieldsWIREDAs Iraqi and Kurdish forces join US allies taking back Mosul, retreating Islamic State forces are setting fire to oil fields and other chemical facilities, burning some 5,000 barrels d …

Science DailySurfaces Repel Water in Oil and Oil in WaterScience DailyResearchers of Aalto University have developed new surface materials that are extremely difficult to wet both by water and oil. Because they don't need isolating air to stay trapped …

Financial TimesExxonMobil on course to cut reported proved oil reserves by 19%Financial TimesIn a statement in its third-quarter earnings release, the company said that if the low crude prices in 2016 persisted until the end of the year, then it would have …

Wall Street JournalChina's Oil Giants Shrink Their SpendingWall Street JournalBEIJING—China's once-freewheeling oil giants are singing a new tune: They'd rather sit on stockpiles of cash than produce more energy. As the commodities slump stretc …

BRIEF-Beijing Geoenviron Engineering signs strategic agreement with Fortun...ReutersReuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world …

MarketWatchThis environmentally friendly oil super major yields 6.85%MarketWatchIn our estimation, if oil and natural-gas prices cooperate, Shell might reach about $11 per share free cash flow by 2020-2021. At present, the dividend is only $3.76 per share. …

Grand Forks HeraldNorth Dakota Crude-Oil Production Falls Below One Million Barrels a DayWall Street JournalNorth Dakota oil production dropped 4.7% in August on a commodity price slump, falling below the one-million-barrel-a-day mark for the first time in …

BustleI Replaced My Perfume With Amber Oil Because Kristen Bell Said It Was Cool — PHOTOSBustleAt the 2016 Emmys, Kristen Bell divulged a budget-friendly beauty tip that made me sit up and take notice: Bell wears amber oil as perfume. She told Giuliana Ran …

Getting Smart About Oil in a Warming WorldCarnegie Endowment for International PeaceBecause of the range of emissions from global oils, it matters which oil is burned on the path to a low emissions future. One way to choose among oils is to compare their d …

Wall Street JournalBHP to Expand Oil, Gas EffortsWall Street JournalBHP, which has run petroleum assets since the 1960s, has “sharpened and strengthened” its oil-and-gas strategy over the past two years, switching focus to “value over volume,” Mr. Pastor t …