ReutersOil prices jump after US launches missile strike in SyriaReutersAfter tepid trading before the news, Brent crude futures LCOc1, the international benchmark for oil, jumped to $55.60 per barrel by 0146 GMT, up 72 cents, or 1.3 percent from their last …

ReutersIraq puts out fires at Qayyara oil field in northern Iraq: ministryReutersState-run North Oil Company crews are working to control the fires torched by the hardline militants to slow down the advance of U.S.-backed Iraqi forces toward Mosul, their l …

BloombergChina Fires Up Its Furnaces While Diggers and Oil Drills SlowBloombergCost pressures and environmental regulation curbed domestic crude and coal output last year while economic stimulus propelled steel making, aluminum smelting and oil refining to …

FortuneOil and Gas Sales to the Syrian Regime Are Now ISIS's Largest Source of Funds, Report SaysFortuneRevenues from oil and gas sold to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are now the largest source of funds for the Islamic State (ISIS), a …

USA TODAYUS-led warplanes destroy fleet of Islamic State oil tankers in SyriaReutersWASHINGTON U.S.-led coalition planes destroyed 168 Islamic State oil tanker trucks in Syria, the coalition said on Friday, in the largest strike of its kind and the latest …

ReutersSaudi oil shipments to Egypt halted indefinitely, Egyptian officials sayReutersThe cargoes stopped arriving at the start of October, as festering political tensions burst into the open, but Egyptian officials said the contract remained valid and had …

MarketWatch5.0 earthquake rattles Oklahoma oil-storage hubMarketWatchOklahoma has been plagued by earthquakes in recent years, which many people blame on underground wastewater disposal from oil and gas production. Oklahoma averaged three 3.0-magnitude-or- …

ReutersEgypt's oil minister makes rare trip to Iran for oil talks after Saudi sus...ReutersThe Saudi deal was for 700,000 tonnes of oil products a month for five years under a $23 billion deal between Saudi Aramco and the Egyptian General Petroleum Cor …

USA TODAYIslamic State attacks Kirkuk as Iraqi forces push on MosulReutersCrude oil production facilities were not targeted and the power supply continued uninterrupted in the city. Kirkuk is located east of Hawija, a pocket still under control of Islamic …

Iraq declares curfew in oil city under Islamic State attackReutersKIRKUK, Iraq Suspected Islamic State militants attacked several buildings and a power station in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk in the early hours of Friday, killing eight people, and …