Wall Street JournalChina Probes a Senior Oil Official's Mysterious DeathWall Street JournalBEIJING—Authorities are investigating the sudden death of the top anticorruption official at one of China's largest oil companies, say people familiar with t …

Wall Street JournalShould Oil Firms Be Held Liable in Earthquake Lawsuits?Wall Street JournalIn 2011, a string of powerful earthquakes struck near the town of Prague, Okla., part of a surge in seismic activity in the state. Geologists eventually linked the …

Billings Gazette'Significant' oil, brine spill affects North Dakota riverBillings GazetteWHITE EARTH, N.D. -- An oil well in Mountrail County that has been out of control since late Saturday night leaked oil and brine water into the nearby White Ea …

Wall Street JournalChina Probes Graft in Angola Oil DealsWall Street JournalBEIJING—Chinese anticorruption investigators are zeroing in on oil deals in Angola by one of China's biggest energy companies, part of President Xi Jinping's nearly three-y …

Wall Street JournalFormer Chinese Oil Executive Jiang Jiemin Sentenced to 16 Years in PrisonWall Street JournalBEIJING— Jiang Jiemin, the former chief of China's biggest oil company and a onetime top official overseeing its biggest state-owned enterpri …

Wall Street JournalBritish Police Arrest Former Nigerian Oil MinisterWall Street JournalLONDON—British police on Friday arrested Nigeria's former petroleum minister, one of Africa's most prominent politicians, on allegations of bribery, according t …

Wall Street JournalCrime Soars in Oil Region of Southern IraqWall Street JournalBASRA, Iraq—Just past midnight, a chain-smoking Hussein al-Rashid, head of a local oil services company, received the phone call he had been waiting for all day. “We've got …

Wall Street JournalBP Agrees to Pay $18.7 Billion to Settle Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ClaimsWall Street JournalLONDON— BP BP 4.91 % PLC on Thursday agreed to pay $18.7 billion to settle all federal and state claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon …

Wall Street JournalOil Firms Agree to Pay Millions in Compensation for Quebec Train BlastWall Street JournalOil companies have quietly agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars into a compensation fund for deaths and damage caused by a 2013 oil-train explo …

Wall Street JournalBig Oil Firms Put Millions Into Compensation Fund for Train BlastWall Street JournalOil companies have quietly agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars into a compensation fund for deaths and damage caused by a 2013 oil-train explosion …