Aker BP Billionaire Proven Wrong as Oil Flows From Ivar AasenBloombergIn 2013, Kjell Inge Rokke criticized his oil company and its partners for awarding a contract for a platform deck at the Ivar Aasen field in Norway to a Singaporean company instead of on …

Calgary HeraldInventory of abandoned oil and gas wells doubles in 2016Calgary HeraldThe number of oil and gas wells abandoned by industry has expanded dramatically as depressed commodity prices forced operators into bankruptcy. Alberta's inventory of w …

Justice taps head of engineering firm for commerce secretaryThe Daily Progress(AP) — West Virginia's incoming governor has chosen the president of an engineering and architecture firm to be his administration's commerce secretary. Gov.-Elect Jim Ju …

Investing.com UKIraq's oil minister wants country to increase output in 2017ReutersThe minister "has affirmed the need to proceed forth with increasing oil and gas production through enhancing the national effort and those of the licensed companie …

Iraq's oil minister calls for increasing oil output in 2017ReutersBAGHDAD Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi has called on local and foreign companies operating in Iraq to continue increasing oil and natural gas output in 2017, the oil ministry said in …

ReutersBytes and barrels: the origins of oil traders' love of YahooReutersBack then, Yahoo's technology revolutionized the industry, helping usher in a new era of high-speed communication that changed the way millions of barrels of oil traded daily …

ReutersOil funds hold down risk, eye volatility after weak first halfReutersOil's big rebound in the first half of the year was a squandered opportunity for most hedge funds with positions in crude, and a surge in volatility is likely to make it harder …

NEWS.com.auOil boosts dollar ahead of UK voteNEWS.com.auBBH currency strategists said oil snapped a six-session fall before the weekend to surge by 4.2 per cent. Prices are still up almost two per cent, which is helping the Aussie. “The Australian dollar w …

ReutersFrench workers suspend strike at Fos-Lavera oil port: union officialReutersHardline CGT members at France's biggest oil port terminal joined nationwide rolling protests against government labor reforms on May 23, disrupting the loading and unloa …

Libyan unity government condemns attack near eastern oil terminalsReutersThe fighting near Ajdabiya, close to three oil terminals and north of major oil fields, risks opening a new front in the conflict between forces that backed competing governments set …