Oil Prices Slip On Profit TakingOilPrice.comRelated: China's Oil Futures Launch With A Bang. China launches oil futures. China's oil futures contract began trading on Monday on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange, a yuan-denominated futures …

Thousands of Jobs At Risk As Nigerian Oil Industry CrumblesOilPrice.comThousands of oil workers in Nigeria may lose their jobs after a wave of picketing against several service companies from the industry from members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senio …

The GuardianTexas sinkholes: oil and gas drilling increases threat, scientists warnThe GuardianThere were nearly 297,000 oil wells in Texas as of last month, according to the state regulator. Many are in the Permian Basin, described in a Bloomberg article …

Only Security Can Buy Time for Oil-Exporters to EvolveWar Is BoringAs energy ministers and corporate executives emerge from CeraWeek in Houston in early March 2018, it is increasingly clear that the future of OPEC is shrouded in a dark, murky liquid. The c …

Curbed LAMapping the long history of oil drilling in LACurbed LALos Angeles has had always had a complicated relationship with oil. In 1892, what had been a small agricultural city popular with Midwestern tourists became a boomtown nearly overnight when oi …

Science DailyAsh from dinosaur-era volcanoes linked with shale oil, gasScience Daily"The deposits are in narrow bands that can only be accessed with horizontal drilling, and the oil and gas are locked in these little pockets and are only available wit …

Financial TimesNorway oil fund slashes stakes in US gunmakersFinancial TimesThe world's largest sovereign wealth fund has sharply reduced its stakes in the three largest listed gunmakers in the US amid a growing debate over how investors should react t …

The Guardian'SOS': the rainforest distress call carved into Sumatra's oil palmsThe GuardianThe campaign is a play on the “slash and burn” technique used by some Indonesian farmers to clear swaths of rainforest for oil palm plantations. Indonesi …

The Guardian'SOS': the rainforest distress call carved into Sumatra's oil palms ...The GuardianWith his chainsaw-wielding crew, artist Ernest Zacharevic has emblazoned a cry for help across an oil palm plantation, highlighting Indonesia's d …

Chron.comEnergy Dept. sees higher oil prices, more oil in 2018Chron.comThe recent rally in crude prices could drive U.S. oil production to a record annual average of 10 million barrels a day in 2018, the Energy Department said on Tuesday. In its monthly fo …