Wall Street JournalShell Under Investigation in Italy Over Nigerian Oil DealWall Street JournalThe prosecutors are investigating whether Shell's piece of a $1.3 billion payment to acquire a rich oil field off the coast of Nigeria constituted a bribe, a …

Wall Street Journal (subscription)Venezuelan Oil Contractor Pleads Guilty to BriberyWall Street Journal (subscription)HOUSTON—A Venezuelan oil contractor pleaded guilty to bribery in a U.S. court, the latest development in a wide-ranging Justice Department …

Billings Gazette'Significant' oil, brine spill affects North Dakota riverBillings GazetteWHITE EARTH, N.D. -- An oil well in Mountrail County that has been out of control since late Saturday night leaked oil and brine water into the nearby White Ea …

Wall Street JournalChina Probes Graft in Angola Oil DealsWall Street JournalBEIJING—Chinese anticorruption investigators are zeroing in on oil deals in Angola by one of China's biggest energy companies, part of President Xi Jinping's nearly three-y …

Wall Street JournalFormer Chinese Oil Executive Jiang Jiemin Sentenced to 16 Years in PrisonWall Street JournalBEIJING— Jiang Jiemin, the former chief of China's biggest oil company and a onetime top official overseeing its biggest state-owned enterpri …

Wall Street JournalBritish Police Arrest Former Nigerian Oil MinisterWall Street JournalLONDON—British police on Friday arrested Nigeria's former petroleum minister, one of Africa's most prominent politicians, on allegations of bribery, according t …

Reuters UKNigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke arrested in London - sourcesReuters UKThe two Nigerian sources did not say why she had been arrested but under Alison-Madueke's watch, oil-related scandals involving billions of dollars …

ReutersEgypt's president asks oil minister to form new cabinet after government resignsReutersCAIRO Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday asked Oil Minister Sherif Ismail to form a new cabinet within one week after the government submitte …