ReutersVenezuela to open criminal probe of ex oil czar Ramirez: prosecutorReuters“We have decided to open a criminal investigation ... of Rafael Ramirez, ex Oil Minister and (ex) President of PDVSA,” said Prosecutor Tarek Saab in a televised address. He sa …

Chron.comMIT study suggests US vastly overstates oil output forecastsChron.comMargaret Coleman, the EIA's leader of oil, gas and biofuels exploration and production analysis, said in an email "the study raises valid points" and the administra …

ReutersPleas to flee, a desperate video: Inside Venezuela's oil industry purgeReutersThat trust, the product of three years in which Del Pino held the top two jobs in Venezuela's oil ministry, now appears alarmingly misplaced. Maduro is charging De …

Chron.comOPEC's easy win masks tough oil-market choices aheadChron.comOn the surface, Thursday's OPEC meeting was a no-drama success. The group of oil nations agreed to extend year-old production cuts through the end of 2018 to help boost prices, n …

Norway reduces oil riskIPE.comI don't think anyone expected the fund to ever reach a trillion dollars when the first transfer of oil revenue was made in May 1996,” Yngve Slyngstad, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, wrote following the announcem …

XinhuaCNPC reports new oil field discovery in northwestern ChinaFinancial TimesChina's largest energy group has discovered a new oil field in the country's northwestern reaches with more than 500m tonnes of crude reserves after more than a decade o …

Reuters.comVenezuela arrests ex-oil bosses for graft in widening purgeReuters.comMaduro has promised a vast anti-corruption purge to cleanse the oil industry of “mafias.” Some 65 executives have been detained so far, panicking PDVSA workers, depriving Vene …

ReutersVenezuela arrests ex-oil bosses for graft in widening purgeReutersMaduro has promised a vast anti-corruption purge to cleanse the oil industry of “mafias.” Some 65 executives have been detained so far, panicking PDVSA workers, depriving Venezuela&#3 …

Voice of AmericaUS Asks China To Cut Off Oil Supply To North KoreaOilPrice.comChina should cut off North Korea's access to crude oil following the latest missile launch from Pyongyang, and Washington has asked it to do just that, the U.S. ambassador to …

ReutersVenezuela arrests former oil bosses in deepening graft purgeReutersCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday they detained two once-powerful officials who had run the oil ministry and state energy company PDVSA as part of a deepeni …