Markets InsiderVenezuela arrests relative of powerful ex-oil boss Ramirez in graft probeReutersCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has arrested Diego Salazar, a relative of former oil czar Rafael Ramirez, as part of an investigation into a money laundering scand …

Norway reduces oil riskIPE.comI don't think anyone expected the fund to ever reach a trillion dollars when the first transfer of oil revenue was made in May 1996,” Yngve Slyngstad, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, wrote following the announcem …

XinhuaCNPC reports new oil field discovery in northwestern ChinaFinancial TimesChina's largest energy group has discovered a new oil field in the country's northwestern reaches with more than 500m tonnes of crude reserves after more than a decade o …

Reuters.comVenezuela arrests ex-oil bosses for graft in widening purgeReuters.comMaduro has promised a vast anti-corruption purge to cleanse the oil industry of “mafias.” Some 65 executives have been detained so far, panicking PDVSA workers, depriving Vene …

ReutersVenezuela arrests ex-oil bosses for graft in widening purgeReutersMaduro has promised a vast anti-corruption purge to cleanse the oil industry of “mafias.” Some 65 executives have been detained so far, panicking PDVSA workers, depriving Venezuela&#3 …

Voice of AmericaUS Asks China To Cut Off Oil Supply To North KoreaOilPrice.comChina should cut off North Korea's access to crude oil following the latest missile launch from Pyongyang, and Washington has asked it to do just that, the U.S. ambassador to …

ReutersVenezuela arrests former oil bosses in deepening graft purgeReutersCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday they detained two once-powerful officials who had run the oil ministry and state energy company PDVSA as part of a deepeni …

ReutersJane Goodall urges US Senate to halt quest for Arctic refuge oilReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - British primatologist Jane Goodall sent a letter to every U.S. senator on Tuesday urging them to oppose a push in the U.S. Congress to allow oil drilling i …

Sacramento BeeConnelly: A gusher of oil money flows in two state election racesseattlepi.comOil refiners and developers of a proposed Vancouver, Wash., oil terminal have channeled more than $1 million into two election races, a Port of Vancouver commission …

ReutersDemocrats fail to block Arctic reserve oil drillingReutersSenator Jeff Merkley, another Democrat, has said there is “something cynical and sad” about the effort to open ANWR because it would boost oil output from the state feeling the fastest effect …