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 …

OPEC Curbs Oil Shipments To US RefinersOilPrice.comU.S. refiners are receiving smaller shipments of oil from members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) due to the bloc's production cut agreement, according to a new report by Bl …

Oil pulls back from 7-week highMarketWatchOil prices retreated from a seven-week high Thursday, caught between the unexpected fall in U.S. inventories and the country's ever-rising production. May West Texas Intermediate crude CLK8, -1.12% traded littl …

Massive Oil Fields in Texas Are Heaving, Sinking, And Opening Up Like MouthsScienceAlertNobody's sure quite how the heaving and sinking will develop from here, but the bad news is the phenomenon might not be contained to the already vast expanse of oil …

Massive oil fields in Texas are heaving, sinking, and opening up like ...ScienceAlertIt began with sinkholes. Two of them, gaping mouths to nowhere opening up as if to swallow the town of Wink, Texas. As they expanded, there were fears they might collide, …