Oil prices settle at 52-week high in shortened holiday tradeMarketWatchCrude-oil prices on Friday ticked modestly higher but enough to register a 52-week high in abbreviated trade ahead of the December holiday weekend. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, …

The GuardianArctic oil rush: Nenets' livelihood and habitat at risk from oil spillsThe GuardianBut locals have said both of those activities are under threat from an oil terminal due to be built on the Tanalau cape, near where the river empties into th …

The GuardianArctic oil rush: Nenets' livelihood and habitat at risk from oil spills ...The GuardianAn oil terminal to be built in northern Russia where the river Yenisei meets the Arctic Ocean lacks the technology to deal with oil spills, say environme …

The Week UKOil price: Predictions for 2017The Week UKThere is widespread optimism that this will end two years of supply glut that has been responsible for a prolonged oil price slump. So what are the predictions for the oil price in 2017? "Prediction …

CNBCQatar, Glencore to buy 19.5 percent stake in Russia state oil major RosneftCNBCRussian state holding company Rosneftegaz on Saturday signed a deal with the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and commodities trader Glencore to sell a 19.5 percent stake in …

Telegraph.co.ukBritish industry has worst month in four years as oil rig closures drag down outputTelegraph.co.ukBritain's oil output dived in October, dragging down overall industrial output to put the economy on a weak footing going into the final qu …

Financial TimesOil majors line up to bid for Mexican deepwater contractsFinancial TimesSome of the world's best-known oil majors are expected to compete in a long-awaited auction for deepwater contracts in Mexico on Monday that marks a key opening of t …

BloombergDubai Stocks Lead Gains Across Gulf Markets After Oil's AdvanceBloomberg“Oil climbed 15 percent last week and that has a strong impact on investor sentiment, while the news on Emaar's settlement for the Address hotel fire” is good for the …

NJ.comMan pinned in hole by oil tank rescued by firefighters in MontclairNJ.comMONTCLAIR -- More than a dozen firefighters rescued a man who was pinned in a hole in the front yard of a Montclair home Saturday afternoon. The unidentified man was working on …

Ogoni king: Shell oil is killing my peopleThe GuardianAfter nearly a week of sittting quietly in top hat and regal chains in the obscure technology and construction court in London listening to Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil company, argue why 45,000 impoveris …