New York TimesRussians' Anxiety Swells as Oil Prices CollapseNew York TimesThe last time oil prices dropped so low and stayed there, in the 1980s, the Soviet Union disintegrated. Steadily rising prices since 2000 have lifted Russia out of poverty and e …

CNNMoneyRed flag: Oil company defaults are spikingCNNMoneyExperts say there are a lot of parallels between today's crisis and the last oil crash in 1986. Back then, 27% of exploration and production companies went bust. Defaults are skyrocketing again. …

OilPrice.comOil drillers hunker down for more pain one year into bear marketEconomic TimesIn the past five months, US production sank by 590,000 barrels a day, or more than 6 per cent. The bad news: Drillers are cutting costs with a speed and brutality not …

Wall Street JournalOil Patch Braces for Financial ReckoningWall Street JournalU.S. energy companies have defied financial gravity for more than a year, borrowing and spending billions of dollars to pump oil, even as crude prices plummeted. Until now. The o …

Hilton Head Island PacketWildlife activists concerned over Uganda-Congo border oilWashington TimesGeorge Boden of the transparency group Global Witness said that drilling for oil on the Ugandan side of Lake Edward makes it “far more likely that there will …

Hilton Head Island PacketWildlife activist concern over oil on Uganda-Congo borderWashington TimesKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Activists are urging Uganda's government to reverse a decision to open for oil drilling a wildlife park on Uganda's border with …

Los Angeles Times13 demonstrators hang from Portland bridge to block Shell shipKATUProtesters against Arctic drilling rappelled from the St. Johns Bridge early Wednesday morning to set up an aerial blockade of a Shell oil icebreaker in the port for repairs …

Wall Street JournalChevron and Exxon Get the Plaudits, but Some Smaller Drillers Faring WellWall Street JournalGiant oil companies are weathering the oil slump better than the average shale driller, but even their famous stability is at times being surpass …

Wall Street JournalEasy Access to Money Keeps US Oil PumpingWall Street JournalWall Street's generous supply of funds to U.S. oil drillers helped create the American energy boom. Now that same access to easy money is keeping them going, despite oil pri …

THE BUSINESS TIMESEnergy Watch: Oil bulls threatened as shale drillers revive plansbnn.caThe rally in crude oil is reviving the U.S. shale boom, threatening speculators who are the most bullish on prices since July. Money managers increased their net-long …