Lexington Herald Leader (blog)Here's how another country hopes to avoid Kentucky's mistakes with coalLexington Herald Leader (blog)Models of oil platforms on display at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger, a North Sea port city that has bec …

Wall Street JournalSovereign-Wealth Funds Threatened by Government SpendingWall Street JournalKazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev says the country's sovereign-wealth fund has the money to help wean the central Asian nation off its dependence on oil r …

INFORUMND's high-flying birth rates may have leveled off in oil slowdownINFORUMNorth Dakota's baby boom largely was fueled by the influx of young adults, drawn by jobs in the Oil Patch. Related to that, the state's rise in personal income made …

CBC.caFirst Nations chiefs enraged over letter saying Husky stopping oil spill compensationCBC.caIn the letter obtained by CBC News, Husky's vice-president of aboriginal and community relations Dave Lawrence tells First Nations that cleanup from the Ju …

MarketWatchOil prices fall but salvage weekly gain in run-up to OPEC meetingMarketWatchOil futures prices fell Friday, as traders adopted a wait-and-see stance ahead of next week's crucial production meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporti …

Wall Street JournalTapping Norway's Oil Fund Raises Political HacklesWall Street JournalOil-rich Norway could be forming a bad habit. The government said Thursday it would keep draining money from one vessel—the nation's vast sovereign-wealth fund— …

Brookings Institution (blog)The political implications of transforming Saudi and Iranian oil economiesBrookings Institution (blog)But even as the two states duel over oil production and prices, both Saudi Arabia and Iran are conspicuously planning for a po …

THE BUSINESS TIMESAustralian dollar surges on oil price recoveryThe AustralianOANDA Australia and Asia Pacific senior trader Stephen Innes said a strike by Kuwaiti oil workers had cut the country's output in half, helping crude prices recover from an e …

FortunePlunging Oil Prices Have Forced Alaska to Consider a Desperate OptionFortuneBut now, with oil sinking below $30 a barrel in the past few months, the state government is seriously considering cutting its citizens' dividends in order to pay down t …

The GuardianSaudi Arabia plans to sell state oil assets to create $2tn wealth fundThe GuardianSaudi Arabia is planning to establish a $2tn (£1.4tn) sovereign wealth fund by selling off its state petroleum assets in preparation for a world beyond oil. Green …