Wall Street JournalRegulators Urge Railroads to Make Changes to Improve Oil-Train SafetyWall Street JournalU.S. regulators are urging railroads to make dramatic operating changes, including how they deal with wheel defects, saying a wheel problem may have …

Reverse Oil Shock: Part 3 – Feeding Financial InstabilityEconoMonitor (blog)Financial markets have generally assumed lower oil prices are positive for asset prices, resulting from the positive effect on growth and lower inflation which extends the period o …

NBCNews.comFires Finally Dwindling Days After Illinois Oil Train DerailmentNBCNews.comFirefighters were still working Sunday to extinguish the last of a series of fires that erupted when a BNSF Railway train loaded with crude oil derailed two days ago in a …

Barclays' Mahesh Says Election a 'Huge Risk' for Nigeria OilBloomberg(Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc energy analyst Miswin Mahesh sees a “huge risk” of oil production in Nigeria being disrupted by political instability arising from elections schedu …

Wall Street JournalWrecks Hit Tougher Oil RailcarsWall Street JournalIn a string of recent oil train derailments in the U.S. and Canada, new and sturdier railroad tanker cars being built to carry a rising tide of crude oil across the continent have failed …

Wall Street JournalObama's Oil-by-Rail BoomWall Street JournalThanks to various competing news stories (a plane crash in San Francisco, the Trayvon Martin shooting trial), Americans did not dwell on a fiery oil-train accident in Canada that killed 47. …

Wall Street JournalCanada Unveils an Oil-Train Safety TaxWall Street JournalThe Lac-Mégantic accident spurred regulatory changes in the U.S. and Canada—from beefed up emergency-preparedness requirements to new rules governing railcars—while raising concern …

Reuters UKOil prices steady as Japan emerges from recessionReuters UK"Crude oil prices gained over 2 percent ... on news of U.S. industry spending cuts and declining U.S. drilling. Baker Hughes rig data showed oil and natural gas drillers idled 98 rig …

CNBCCrude Oil Bears Betting on Supply Glut Miss Market Rally: EnergyBloombergPumping jacks stand near an Anadarko Petroleum Corp. oil rig site in Fort Lupton, Colorado. U.S. oil explorers idled rigs for the 10th straight week to extend an unprecedented ret …

USA TODAYOil will flow like milk and honey. Here's why: ColumnUSA TODAYThe price of oil has fallen nearly 60% since peaking in June, and lately there's been a lot of ink and pixels devoted to the question of whether oil prices will plunge even furt …