Oil edges up even as buyers turn cautiousNEWS.com.auU.S. energy companies this week added oil rigs for a 10th week in a row, bringing the total count up to 529, the most since December 2015, energy services firm Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday. "Marke …

ReutersArgentina to lift 15-year-old duty on oil exports: local dailyReutersBUENOS AIRES The center-right government of Argentine President Mauricio Macri has decided to lift a 15-year-old export duty on oil and oil products, the local daily newspaper La N …

ValueWalkBack To Black: At $50 Oil, Russia Could Soon Be Deficit-FreeOilPrice.comThanks to non-oil budget income, Russia has entirely offset the negative effects from lower oil prices in 2016, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at the end of 2016. What&# …

ReutersOil business seen in strong position as Trump tackles tax reformReutersWASHINGTON Big Oil could be in a unique position to protect its interests against a Republican proposal to tax imports, given that President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet is s …

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 …

MarketWatchOil prices stabilize as investors watch for China dataMarketWatchTraders continued to assess the market impact of last week's decision to cut output by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. After rallying sharply in the days …

Wall Street JournalMexico Collects $2.65 Billion from 2016 Oil HedgesWall Street JournalMEXICO CITY—The Mexican government collected $2.65 billion from oil-price hedges taken out to protect the 2016 budget from a drop in prices, the Finance Ministry said W …

NBCNews.comOil And Gas Industry Ensnarled in Spate of Oklahoma EarthquakesNBCNews.comThe rise in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been a boom for Oklahoma's economy in extracting previously untapped sources of oil and gas. However, scientists say …

Wall Street JournalDoes the Oil-and-Gas Industry Still Need Tax Breaks?Wall Street JournalU.S. oil-and-gas companies receive billions of dollars in federal tax incentives annually linked to activities such as tapping new wells. Do these incentives benefit …

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— …