Barron'sOil Prices Could Rise by 35% Later This YearBarron'sThe price of crude oil could touch $60 a barrel before the end of this year, as demand exceeds supply. That forecast would have been aggressively bearish as recently as three years ago, but with W …

Wall Street JournalVenezuelan Oil Is Largely Staying in Ground or Going Up in Smoke ...Wall Street JournalThe decrepit state of aging oil fields is a crucial reason why Venezuela's output is falling faster than that of any other major oil producer bar …

Wall Street JournalVenezuelan Oil Is Largely Staying in Ground or Going Up in SmokeWall Street JournalPUNTA DE MATA, Venezuela—This fading oil town has an eerie glow at night, illuminated by dozens of oil wells burning off precious oil and gas for lack of …

Why Nigeria's 'Avengers' are crippling the oil sectorBBC NewsThe vast wetlands of the Niger Delta region are home to Nigeria's vast oil resources, but are once again at the centre of a security crisis. The militants or the "boys" …

Russia Ramps Up Arctic Oil ProductionOilPrice.comPlans for the future are ambitious – Arctic oil and gas exploration is a clear priority for the Kremlin. A couple of weeks ago, Russia's Natural Resources Minister Sergey Donskoy wrote on his Facebook pa …

Wall Street JournalWhy Oil Traders Are Writing Love Poems to YahooWall Street JournalPowerful forces have been roiling oil markets this year. There are the vagaries of Chinese demand, shifts in American production, the enigma of OPEC policy. And then, of c …

Wall Street JournalWhy Oil Traders Are Writing Love Poems to Yahoo - WSJWall Street JournalOil traders bemoan the imminent loss of Yahoo's old-school Messenger software, which they used to gossip, make jokes and log trades for crude.and more &raqu …

Wall Street JournalOil Wells Yield a Gusher of Goofy NamesWall Street JournalAMBROSE, N.D.—How well an oil well is named is an afterthought for many companies, but for others it is an obsession. Ron Burgundy, Dean Wormer and Ty Webb have all taken on new l …