BloombergA $6 Billion Windfall for Oil Refiners Has Small Hurdle: the IRSBloombergButane accounts for about 4 percent of what Americans put in their gas tanks every year, said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston. By comparison, corn-ba …

The Oil Mystery Behind Saudi Arabia's Production CutOilPrice.comWhile the two agreements incorporate cuts from a wide range of oil producers, Saudi Arabia will do much of the heavy lifting, cutting nearly 500,000 barrels per day and even promising to g …

The Pain Is Almost Over For Oil And Gas DrillersOilPrice.comThe drilling segment of the oil and gas industry has suffered more than its fair share of trouble since the oil price crash began in 2014. Unlike upstreamers and refiners, drillers and other servi …

The Dickinson PressCrews attempt to burn oil from pipeline spillThe Dickinson PressContractors were working in coordination with the North Dakota Department of Health to isolate an area and attempt to burn some of the oil that has contaminated Ash Coulee C …

Wall Street Journal (blog)Serious Fraud Office Closes Corruption Investigation of Soma OilWall Street Journal (blog)The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office closed its investigation of corruption allegations against Soma Oil & Gas Holdings Ltd. for lack of …

CNNNorth Dakota Says Crude Oil Spilled into WaterwayWall Street JournalNorth Dakota regulators said Tuesday that nearly 75% of an estimated 4,200 barrels of crude oil that leaked from a pipeline has flowed into a creek, contaminating 5.4 miles of the water …

RTNorth Dakota Says Thousands of Barrels of Crude Oil Spilled into WaterwayWall Street JournalNorth Dakota regulators said Tuesday that nearly 75% of an estimated 4,200 barrels of crude oil that leaked from a pipeline has flowed into a creek, contaminating …

The PunchPolice: Kidnappers release 15 oil workers in NigeriaFox NewsThe employees of oil industry service company Nestoil were abducted by gunmen on Sept. 2 near Nigeria's southern oil capital, Port Harcourt. Police Deputy Superintendent Nnamdi Omoni …

CBC.caOil and gas companies looking for corporate suitors not feeling the loveCBC.caTD also provided a list of 29 companies that launched strategic alternative processes from 2011 through 2014, a period of much higher oil and gas prices. Twenty-one of thos …

Toronto StarOlive oil helps free Rhode Island man stuck in jettyToronto StarNARRAGANSETT, R.I.—A man who got stuck head-first between two rocks on a Rhode Island jetty while trying to retrieve his cellphone has been rescued with the help of olive oil. WJAR …