List of Oil Production articles
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GettyImages-497134094 The Billion-Dollar Caliphate
The Islamic State has gotten rich from extortion, heists, and smuggling. But how long can the extremist group continue to bankroll jihad?
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GettyImages-461830876 OPEC’s Failure to Reduce Oil Output to Keep U.S. Gas Prices Low
OPEC's failure to agree on output will keep U.S. gas prices low.
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PUTINfrance Russia Pours Hot Oil on Wounded Ties With Turkey
A week after Turkey shot down a Russian jet, Moscow struck back with sharp allegations that Ankara is underwriting the Islamic State’s illicit oil business. What once seemed a beautiful friendship is now increasingly vicious.
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OPECbig4 Top Economist: OPEC Is Preparing for ‘Long-Term Type of War’
The research chief of Abu Dhabi’s $750 billion investment fund believes the oil cartel will keep pumping, even though prices are low and there’s already too much of the stuff.
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GettyImages-462656460 Hitting the Islamic State’s Oil Isn’t Enough
Washington is bombing tankers and refineries to keep the terrorist group from profiting from its stolen oil. But oil isn’t the group’s biggest source of money.
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BHOgun Citing Climate Change, Obama Shoots Down Keystone at Last
Just weeks ahead of the big Paris climate summit, the Obama administration put paid to a 7-year saga by rejecting the controversial pipeline from Canada.
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REX New York Investigates Exxon’s Climate Skepticism
Exxon and other energy companies are in the crosshairs of prosecutors who accuse them of deliberately downplaying the risks posed by climate change.
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RTX1MWTH crop The Battle for Libya’s Only Resource
Libya’s oil could help knit the country back together — or tear it apart for good.
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OILRAIL Controversial Keystone Pipeline Could Be Next President’s Problem
The company slated to build the Keystone XL pipeline is giving the administration a gift by delaying its request for a decision until Obama leaves office.
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Salman The Reports of Saudi Arabia’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
The kingdom’s economy isn’t teetering on collapse; in fact, it’s healthier than it has been in decades.
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Panda Wheezing China Gut Punches Global Oil Market
The Chinese economy is growing at its slowest pace since the financial crisis. That could be bad news for oil producers who gambled on China's unquenchable thirst for oil.
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US-British microeconomist Angus Deaton speaks during a press conference after winning the Nobel Prize for Economics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, on October 12, 2015. Deaton won the Nobel Economics Prize for groundbreaking work using household surveys to show how consumers, particularly the poor, decide what to buy and how policymakers can help them. AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) Why Angus Deaton Deserved the Nobel Prize in Economics
For development economists like me, Deaton was a revolutionary and a visionary.
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SAN FRANCISCO - MAY 31: Gas customers wait in a long line to get discounted gasoline May 31, 2007 in San Francisco, California. Shell gas station owner Bob Oyster dropped his gas prices to below $3.00 per gallon for all grades as he prepares to close his gas station after Shell Corporation attempted to raise his rent to over $13,000 per month. Hundreds of people lined up for the cheap gas, some waiting as long as 40 minutes. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The Promise and Peril of Cheap Oil
Everyone likes $2 gasoline. But what if it's bad for the long-term growth of the U.S. economy — and for global stability?
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GettyImages-486470188_960 It’s Time for the United States to Start Worrying About a Saudi Collapse
Facing a rising tide of problems from the outside and in, the kingdom is in trouble. Will America come to the rescue?
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LOWRYjack U.S. Mulls Lifting Oil Export Ban, but a Tough Sell on the Hill
Congress keeps trying to lift the 40-year-old ban on crude exports. Politics keeps getting in the way.
