Center for Research on GlobalizationOil, Power and Money: “Assad Must Go”Center for Research on GlobalizationSyria's democratically elected president, Shukri-al-Kuwaiti, hesitated to approve the Trans Arabian Pipeline, an American project intended to c …

Wall Street JournalNigeria Claims Oil Majors Illegally Exported CrudeWall Street JournalNigeria's cash-strapped government is suing some of the world's biggest oil companies on claims they were involved in illegally exporting $12.7 billion of the c …

Calgary HeraldOil Price Spike Inevitable As New Discoveries Hit Seventy-Year LowOilPrice.comThe oil industry only discovered about 2.7 billion barrels of new supply in 2015, a tiny fraction of the annual average for the past fifty years. The dismal result …

CBC.caBattling ISIS for control of Iraq's oil facilitiesCBC.caISIS militants abandoned Qayyara about a week ago after setting fire to many of the region's oil wells. The Iraqi military's restoration of Qayyara, along with a nearby air base in J …

DailyFXWTI Crude Oil Price Forecast: Two Week Lows On Dollar's StrengthDailyFXA legitimate breakout would be validated by a break of the price of Crude Oil above $51.64/bbl. If the price broke out and sustained above the highlighted range near ~$50/bbl …

Wall Street JournalUS Oil Firms Continue Tussle Over TaxesWall Street JournalU.S. oil companies have been pushing for changes to U.S. corporate tax laws that require them to pay taxes on foreign earnings, and news that the European Union's antitrust re …

Wall Street JournalExxon Touts Carbon Tax to Oil IndustryWall Street Journal“Previously Exxon's positioning on a carbon tax had been passive—'Hey, we're not loving it, but we're not going to get in the way of it,' ” said Michael McKenna …

The HillHouse opposes carbon and oil taxes in symbolic votesReutersRepublican leaders and their industry allies have worried that support for a carbon tax among big oil companies could encourage some Republicans to back such a measure. A separate resolutio …

FuelFix (blog)US oil trades at $40FuelFix (blog)West Texas Intermediate oil has surged about 50 percent since slumping to a 12-year low last month on speculation a global surplus will ease. American shale output is falling and some of the world's bigge …

CNNMoneyCheap oil hits Middle East budgets: We can no longer 'provide for everything'CNNMoneyRobin Mills, CEO of oil consultancy Qamar Energy, said the move triggered a domino effect. "Once one country feels able to take the step of removing s …