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  • Mike Wirth, chief executive officer of Chevron Corp., speaks during the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, US, on Monday, March 10, 2025. The event will focus on the challenges ahead for energy security, supply, and climate ambitions as well as for markets, infrastructure, directions of policy and the advance of technology including AI. Photographer: Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    How one clause sparked Exxon-Chevron feud that turned personal

    By Kevin Crowley and Bloomberg
  • drilling rigFinance

    Big Oil dials up output growth just as OPEC mulls supply boost

    By Kevin Crowley and Bloomberg
  • The ExxonMobil BuildingFinance

    The untold story of how Exxon scored a $1 trillion oil bonanza that 30 rivals passed up

    By Kevin Crowley and Bloomberg
  • John Hess and Mike WirthFinance

    Hess CEO drags $53 billion Chevron deal over the line amid grapple with Exxon

    By Mitchell Ferman, Kevin Crowley, and others
  • Scott SheffieldFinance

    FTC rocks oil industry with claim that Texas executive was colluding with OPEC to fix prices

    By Kevin Crowley, Leah Nylen, and others
  • Shale oilFinance

    ‘It’s kind of like Pac-Man right now: consolidate or get eaten’: Big oil’s $250 billion year of shale mergers rewrites the playbook

    By Kevin Crowley, David Wethe, and others
  • Autry Stephens, chief executive officer of Endeavor Energy Resources LP, stands for a photograph at the company’s Big Dog Drilling Rig 22 in the Permian basin outside of Midland, Texas, U.S., on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. Of all the booming U.S. oil regions set soaring by a drilling renaissance in shale rock, the Permian and Bakken basins are among the most vulnerable to oil prices that settled at $57.81 a barrel Dec. 12. With enough crude by some counts to exceed the reserves of Saudi Arabia, theyre also the most critical to the future of the U.S. shale boom. Photographer: Brittany Sowacke/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Big Shale means ‘consolidate or get eaten,’ Wall Street is all in, and one of the ‘last original wildcatters’ will become America’s richest oilman

    By Kevin Crowley, David Wethe, and others
  • Autry StephensSuccess

    Meet oil’s new king: 85-year-old Autry Stephens, raised by peanut-and-melon farmers and now worth $25.9 billion

    By Devon Pendleton, Mitchell Ferman, and others
  • Oil well pump jacks operated by Chevron Corp. in San Ardo, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Oil climbed by the most in nearly two weeks with the OPEC+ alliance and BP pointing to signs of a robust demand recovery taking shape in parts of the world. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnvironment

    Chevron blames a $4 billion writedown mostly on California’s regulations as its war with the state’s Democratic-led government heats ups

    By Joe Ryan, Kevin Crowley, and others
  • Mike Wirth, chairman and chief executive officer of Chevron Corp., during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Chevron Corp. agreed to buy Hess Corp. for $53 billion, a deal aimed at boosting production growth as the US oil industry bets on an enduring future for fossil fuels. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Gavin Newsom’s California is increasingly hostile to fuel makers and has ‘worsened’ the state’s gasoline market, Chevron says

    By Kevin Crowley, Chunzi Xu, and others
  • VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES – AUGUST 16: Tesla logo is seen on a charger station in Virginia, United States on August 16, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Finance

    Electric vehicles are growing so fast that Exxon Mobil is preparing for a future when ‘customers don’t need that gasoline’

    By Kevin Crowley and Bloomberg
  • A lab technician looks through a microscope in the Carbon Engineering Innovation Centre, a Direct Air Capture research and development (R&D) facility, in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday, May 26, 2023. Direct Air Capture is a technology that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air with an engineered, mechanical system to help counteract today’s CO2 emissions, and address the large quantities of CO2 emitted in the past that remains trapped in our atmosphere. Photographer: James MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnvironment

    Startup developing technology for sucking carbon from air just sold to a Warren Buffett-backed oil giant for $1.1 billion

    By Kevin Crowley and Bloomberg
  • UNITED STATES – AUGUST 31: An Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery stays in operation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. At least eight refineries are shutting, taking with them about 1.56 million barrels a day of crude oil processing capacity, or 9.8 percent of the U.S. total. Another five refineries are operating at reduced rates. (Photo by F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Politics

    Exxon faces U.S. government racial discrimination lawsuit after 5 nooses are discovered at one of its plants

    By Kevin Crowley, Hadriana Lowenkron, and others
  • Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp., speaks during the World Gas Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S, on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. The 27th World Gas Conference, themed Fueling the Future, is held every three years in the country holding the Presidency of the International Gas Union (IGU). Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Exxon Mobil is plowing into energy trading and has everything it needs—except the right culture

    By Devika Krishna Kumar, Kevin Crowley, and others
  • Gas prices are displayed at an Exxon gas station on July 29, 2022 in Houston, Texas.Finance

    Exxon has been getting ripped for inflation profiteering and it just gave workers a massive pay hike. Here’s how it actually stacks up.

    By Kevin Crowley and Bloomberg