CNNMoneyMeet North America's best shale oil patchCNNMoneyThe precipitous downturn in oil prices has hurt every oil town from the Gulf of Mexico to the Northwest Territories. Tens of thousands have lost their jobs, house prices have fallen, consumer spe …

Slate MagazineOil Prices Are Tanking—and That's Fantastic News for AmericansSlate MagazineSo why isn't the collapse in oil prices playing as good news? A couple reasons. First, the pain caused by low oil prices is highly concentrated, while the gai …

FortuneOil Plunge Leaves Investors $700 Billion PoorerFortuneInvestors in the S&P 500 have lost a collective $703 billion in energy company stocks since June 2014, according to Standard & Poors. That's when oil prices peaked most recently, at $ …

Wall Street JournalOil Turns Lower as Investors Watch OPEC MeetingWall Street JournalDEVELOPING STORY. Nymex Crude Slides On Reports Of Higher OPEC Production Ceiling. Nymex Crude Slides as OPEC Meeting Concludes. Brent Crude Trading Down 1.3% at $43.25/Ba …

Wall Street JournalOil Rises as Investors Eye OPEC MeetingWall Street JournalLONDON—Oil prices rose in volatile trading Friday with traders taking positions as a key meeting by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries got underway in Vienna. O …

NBCNews.comBritish RAF Jets Bomb ISIS Oil Fields in Syria Minutes After VoteNBCNews.comLONDON — British warplanes bombed an ISIS-controlled oil field in eastern Syria just minutes after lawmakers in London voted to join the U.S.-led aerial campaign against …

MarketWatchBarclays slashes oil forecast ahead of OPEC meetingMarketWatchA Barclays survey on oil prices show 57% of clients believe Brent oil prices have bottomed in the fourth quarter of 2015, while 14% think they will reach their lows in the first quart …

China authorities probe death of oil executiveFinancial TimesAuthorities are investigating the sudden death of a senior executive charged with rooting out corruption at one of China's three large oil companies, according to industry people familiar wit …

Wall Street JournalOPEC's Faith in Oil Demand Rise Rests on Shaky GroundWall Street JournalLONDON—The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' bet that oil demand will steadily rise in 2016 has a looming problem: Consumption is notoriousl …

Wall Street JournalOman's Oil Minister Says Over-Production 'Irresponsible'Wall Street JournalABU DHABI—Discontent with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries spilled into the open Monday, when Oman's oil minister called curr …