List of Oil Production articles
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TXRIG Oil Prices Have Yet to Hit the Floor
Surging crude inventories in the United States send prices lower, threatening more pain for shale producers but a boost for the global economy.
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465296380 cropped What Would Hugo Chávez Do?
How would Hugo Chávez have responded to Venezuela's collapsing economy? Almost certainly not how President Maduro is doing it.
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KAZOILTRAIN Central Asia’s Cheap Oil Double Whammy
Lower oil prices and a tottering Russian economy are multiplying headaches from Baku to Bishkek. But that could be a boost for China’s Silk Road dreams.
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A man attends a protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on February 23, 2014. A total of 25 people were injured overnight during clashed between opposition groups and police in eastern Caracas. On Saturday the lasgest opposition rally had taken place after almost three weeks of students protests, which left ten people killed. AFP PHOTO/ Raul Arboleda (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images) Empty Shelves and Coup Plots in Venezuela
President Nicolás Maduro faces a teetering economy and an angry population. So he's turned to a favorite target -- America.
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GettyImages_461281562 Obama Kills the Keystone Pipeline to Nowhere
It took six years, but it now appears that Obama's veto has finally killed TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline.
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EGYPT-LIBYA-UNREST-CHRISTIANS-IS The Islamic State of Libya Isn’t Much of a State
The group is beheading Christians and attacking oil fields. But Libya won't be as easy to take as Iraq or Syria.
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KANSASWELL Game Change: U.S. Oil Revolution Has Torn Up the Rule Book
In a radically different oil market, says the International Energy Agency, the United States looks like the winner and Russia and other ailing petrostates the losers.
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IRAQ-UNREST-ENERGY Pentagon: Oil No Longer the Islamic State’s Main Source of Revenue
Airstrikes and falling oil prices have put a major dent on the Islamic State's oil smuggling business.
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IDLERIGS Don’t Look Now, but Oil Prices Are Rising
Crude’s six-month lemming plunge seems to have ended. But the factors that caused it in the first place haven’t gone away.
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RTR1F64Z cropped In Uganda, It’s Bust Before Boom
Uganda picked the wrong time to mortgage its future to oil.
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redesign_cover5 The New Foreign Policy
Welcome to a fresher, sharper FP — a new generation of the print magazine to match an ever-changing, more interconnected world.
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461087208 cropped Venezuela’s Magic Number
Venezuela's bizarre system of currency controls makes no economic sense. Yet President Nicolás Maduro is determined to keep it.
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461230342 cropped The World’s Next Country
The Kurds are on the verge of getting a homeland of their own. If they do, the Middle East will never be the same.
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WASHBRIDGE Cheap Oil Drives Calls for Gas-Tax Hike
But the bigger struggle will be to leverage that breathing room into political support for a broader carbon tax.
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Maduro-bufanda cropped Nicolas Maduro’s Excellent Adventure
With his country's oil-based economy reeling, Venezuelan President Maduro travels the world looking for help.