ForbesVenezuela's Oil Power Vanishing, Hard Default Fears RisingForbesDespite oil prices doubling since their lows in January 2016, the state-owned PDVSA is in no better shape. The economy is in even worse shape. The political situation is tenuous. And …

Congressmen Warn Venezuela Default Could Lead to Russian Control of US Oil InfrastructureWall Street Journal (subscription)The prospect of a default by the Venezuelan government or Petróleos de Venezuela SA, the state-owned oil company known as PdVSA, has …

Irish IndependentCompaniesTullow strikes oil in GhanaFinancial TimesTullow Oil, the Africa-focused oil exploration and production group, has reported its first flows from the company's “transformational” offshore Ghana site. Known as the TEN project, t …

CNNMoneyVenezuela chaos: The biggest threat to cheap oilCNNMoneyAs the situation worsens, Venezuela's oil output could plunge even lower. A new report by Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy calls Venezuela a "growing supply ri …

Wall Street JournalFears of Venezuela Default Grow Amid Drop in Oil PricesWall Street JournalThe plunge in the price of oil is causing more investors to bet that Venezuela will default on its $120 billion pile of foreign debt, an event that would trigger a …

CNBCOil: Why nobody knows how low it will goCNBCThe plunge in the price of oil over recent months has defied all but the most pessimistic analysts. At the moment, there are no shortage of forecasts to pick from as to how low it may eventually go. Goldman S …

Some on Wall Street see oil plunging to $40, and belowFuelFix (blog)The U.S. benchmark crude price, down more than $60 since June to below $45 yesterday, is on the way to this next threshold, said Societe Generale SA and Bank of America Corp. And Goldman S …