Cash-strapped Nigeria turns to oil swaps to stave off gasoline shortagesReutersOil slump left Nigeria short of funds to import oil products * NNPC has ramped up deals to exchange oil for oil products * Contracts not yet signed, vulnerable to changes at NNP …

Wall Street JournalIslamic State militants target Libya's Es Sider oil port for second dayReutersThe National Oil Corporation (NOC) said the oil tank fire had started just as firefighters were close to bringing under control another fire at an oil tank …

ReutersExclusive: How Kurdistan bypassed Baghdad and sold oil on global marketsReutersLONDON Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan has for the first time detailed its secretive oil exports operations and said it plans to sell more, whether Baghdad …

ReutersKeystone XL oil pipeline in doubt as US asked to pause reviewReutersThe Canadian company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline has asked the U.S. government to suspend review of the $8 billion project that sparked a political war between environm …

ReutersTransCanada asks US to suspend review of Keystone XL oil pipelineReutersThe company battling to build the Keystone XL pipeline made a plea for a ceasefire on Monday, asking the Obama administration to suspend its review of the controversial infrastr …

CNBCUPDATE 4-Pemex receives US oil swap license, but for less than plannedReutersPemex director of corporate partnerships and new business, Jose Manuel Carrera, said in a radio interview that up to 27 million barrels of imported U.S. oil would be processed …

ReutersOil train risks affect many US schools, group saysReutersHOUSTON Thousands of U.S. schools sit along rail corridors used to carry toxic substances such as crude oil and would be at risk in the event of a derailment, an environmental group said on Tu …

California oil train risks worse in minority areas: reportReutersThe report, the first of its kind to explicitly link issues of class and race to the ongoing oil train safety debate, urged state regulators to ban oil imports by train into California and re …