Why Sand Is the Oil Industry's BellwetherWall Street JournalAn average well at the time required some 3,000 tons or so as a “proppant”—a material to hold open tiny cracks in the rock that allow oil and gas to flow out of it. These days industry experts …

Wall Street JournalOil-Price Fight: Saudis vs. StrippersWall Street JournalThe world's largest oil producers are hurting. Just how badly may depend on whether the smallest are feeling even worse. Oil strippers, scrappy operators of old wells often aban …

Financial TimesOil price plunge forces Norway to cut rates to record lowFinancial TimesNorway's central bank cut interest rates to a fresh record low as it battled to overcome a slump in oil prices that has hit the economy of western Europe's bigge …

Wall Street JournalFracking Firms That Drove Oil Boom Struggle to SurviveWall Street JournalA wave of bankruptcies and closures is sweeping across the oil patch, with dozens of hydraulic-fracturing companies at risk, industry experts say. Most of the compa …

The Cheat SheetThe U.S. Is Now the World's Top Oil ProducerThe Cheat SheetIt's a headline that's as attention-grabbing as it gets, and the proclamation itself is something many people probably never thought they'd see: America is the world& …

BloombergWall Street Bets On Oil Price RallyOilPrice.comIf the whims of speculators are anything to go by, then oil markets are poised for a rebound. Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission show that bullish positions on WTI have reached their h …

David Cameron steps into Tullow Oil's row with Gabon governmentFinancial TimesDavid Cameron has intervened in an escalating row between UK oil companies and the government of Gabon after the petroleum ministry expropriated assets from the explorer Tull …

TIMEOPEC Says US Oil Boom Will End This YearOilPrice.comOPEC says the demand for oil – its oil – will rise during 2015 because the cartel is winning its price war against US shale producers by driving them out of business. “Higher global refinery runs, dri …

CNNMoneyTop 12 media myths on oil pricesCNNMoneyBack in July 2014 when WTI crude oil was peaking, they were calling for more, even as the dollar was showing signs of strength (and we know what happened there) and as oil inventories were beginning to wash u …

OilPrice.comWhy The Oil Price Collapse Is U.S. Shale's FaultOilPrice.comThe present oil price collapse is because of over-production of expensive tight oil. The collapse occurred because of the inability of the world market to support the cost of the n …