Wall Street JournalOil Surges on Weaker Dollar, Drilling DataWall Street JournalNEW YORK—Oil prices surged Friday as the dollar weakened and the number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. fell for a 15th straight week. The expiration of the front-month U. …

Iowa Public RadioSome Anxiety, But No Slowdown For North Dakota Oil Boom TownIowa Public RadioLow oil prices are causing a drop in new drilling and exploration in North Dakota, but not as much as you might expect. Take the boom town of Watford City, over i …

Wall Street JournalOil Holds Gains on Drilling DataWall Street JournalNEW YORK—Oil prices held onto earlier gains Friday as drilling data showed a 15th weekly decline in the number of oil rigs operating in the U.S.. Investors in recent months have been foc …

Wall Street JournalOil Gains Ahead of Latest US Drilling DataWall Street JournalNEW YORK—Oil prices rose Friday ahead of the latest report on oil drilling activity in the U.S.. Investors in recent months have been focusing on the number of oil drilling rig …

US Oil-Rig Count FallsWall Street JournalOil prices spiked earlier this month after Baker Hughes reported that the U.S. oil rig count had dropped to a two-year low of 1,223. This week, the number nearly dropped below 1,000. Oil rigs were last below 1,000 i …

FuelFix (blog)Three more oil service firms cutting hundreds of jobs, wagesFuelFix (blog)The reductions come as hundreds of U.S. land rigs have gone idle amid billions in oil-company spending cuts, a reaction to plummeting crude prices, which have been cut …

Calgary Housing Boom Poised for Bust in Oil ReversalBloomberg(Bloomberg) -- The oil that fueled Calgary's housing boom has created the conditions for a bust. Genworth MI Canada Inc., the country's largest non-government mortgage insurer, said last …

Sydney Morning HeraldThis almost forgotten metric is suddenly driving the oil marketThe Globe and MailThis past Friday, traders were bent over their desks, staring at their screens, waiting for 1 p.m. ET to see whether drillers extended their biggest-ever …

NJ.comW. Va. oil train explosion has N.J. raising concerns over rail safetyNJ.comEach day, long trains trailing hundreds of matte-black tank cars filled with highly flammable crude oil snake along the rails through New Jersey to a refinery in Linden. On on …

Oil fields at risk: Where the slowdown has begunCNBCU.S. oil production grew 49 percent between 2008 and 2013, as drillers improved productivity and tapped high-yield debt markets. But with their product fetching far less these days, exploration and produc …