Wall Street JournalAustralia's Woodside Abandons $8.4 Billion Bid to Take Over Oil SearchWall Street JournalA takeover of Oil Search promised needed growth for Woodside and a foothold in the poor nation of Papua New Guinea, which is viewed in the indus …

ReutersOne worker killed, 30 missing after Azeri oil rig fire: governmentReutersBAKU At least one worker was killed and 30 others were missing on Saturday after an Azeri oil platform caught fire during high winds in the Caspian Sea on Friday, state energy …

RT32 workers die after fire on Azeri oil platform: committee headReutersBAKU Thirty-two workers have died after an offshore oil platform operated by Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR caught fire in the Caspian Sea, the head of an independent comm …

Aberdeen Press and Journal32 Azeri workers die in fire on Caspian Sea oil platform: committee headReutersThe fire on the platform was finally extinguished," Mirvari Gakhramanly, head of Azerbaijan's Oil Workers' Rights Protection Committee, to …

Wall Street JournalBritish Oil-Deals Maven John Browne Returns to the FieldWall Street JournalIt marks a return to the oil patch for the man who transformed BP from a medium-size British oil company into one of the world's largest following the acquisi …

China gives 14 officials jail terms over 2013 oil pipeline blastReutersBEIJING A total of 14 former Sinopec and government officials have been sentenced to three to five years in jail for a massive oil pipeline explosion in 2013, the official Xinhua news a …

NOAA graphics show how a Mackinac straits oil spill might lookMLive.comST. IGNACE, MI — If you've ever wondered what an oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac might look like from the air, now you know. These six images, obtained by MLive and The Grand R …

Yahoo NewsRussian oil tanker grounded in north PacificYahoo NewsWorkers remove crude oil along the shoreline during a clean up operation after the tanker Nadezhda, left, hit a reef during a storm on Saturday near the port city of Nevelsk, about 90 kilometr …

ReutersKuwait names new acting oil minister; policy change not expectedReutersKUNA did not say why Ali al-Omair was leaving the oil minister post. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters 10 days ago that Omair was expected to be replaced; he had trie …

Wall Street JournalCanadian Oil Sands Cites Potential Suitors in Effort to Fend Off SuncorWall Street JournalCanadian Oil Sands last month rejected Suncor's bid as too low and asked securities authorities in its home province of Alberta to uphold a “po …