Oil Industry

Wilfredo Cruz
Energy

‘You feel kind of forgotten’: Meet a California pipe fitter who got to $118k earnings after a decade but doesn’t know what’s next after the refinery shuts down

By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
October 12, 2025
A drilling rig is pictured at an oil well site in the Permian Basin with trucks of workers and equipment lined up.
Environment

U.S. oil prices dip below nerve-wracking $60 threshold with record-high production in the balance

By
April 7, 2025
US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025.
Finance

Trump vows to tap America’s ‘liquid gold’ oil reserves and ‘drill baby, drill’—the only problem is, it’s not up to him

By
February 9, 2025
The ExxonMobil Building
Finance

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

By Kevin Crowley and Bloomberg
August 4, 2024
A worker on an oil rig
Success

Don’t have a college education and want to make bank and take half the year off? Oil rig work is the hot job for many Americans

By
January 27, 2024
Biden trolled by oil industry group over ‘White House intern’s’ demand to slash prices at the gas pump
Politics

Biden trolled by oil industry group over ‘White House intern’s’ demand to slash prices at the gas pump

By
July 4, 2022
A construction worker is seen through the porthole of an under construction fuel storage tank at the VTTV oil storage terminal, a joint venture of Vitol Group and MISC Bhd., in Vasilikos, Cyprus, on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.

Oil market to get even tighter on Russia disruptions, world’s biggest independent crude trader says

By Paul Wallace and Bloomberg
March 6, 2022
Lukoil-West Siberia oil and gas company

Russia’s second-largest oil producer just posted its biggest profit in at least 7 years amid war in Ukraine and a surge in energy prices

By
March 2, 2022
House Democrats call on oil industry to testify on climate change disinformation campaign

House Democrats call on oil industry to testify on climate change disinformation campaign

By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
September 16, 2021
Demonstrators hold cardboard wind turbines in the air during a protest over climate action in Kiel, Germany in November 2019.

The oil industry is finally talking climate crisis, but don’t expect change to come easily

By
February 28, 2020
A picture taken on December 2, 2019 in Donges, near Saint-Nazaire, western France, shows a view of Total Refinery and fuel depot as public works companies (BTP) workers strain some accesses to protest against a planned tax reform. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)
International

Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough

By Francois de Beaupuy and Bloomberg
January 28, 2020
Oil Boom in Texas's Permian Basin

Why Cheap Oil Is Bad News for Workers in Texas

By
December 28, 2018
Icon of company Shell over blue sky: Shell Oil Company is

Shell Profits Jump Past Expectations as It Figures Out the New World of Low Oil Prices

By
November 2, 2017
Energy Secretary Rick Perry to Hecklers: Fossil Fuels Save Lives

Energy Secretary Rick Perry to Hecklers: Fossil Fuels Save Lives

By
September 26, 2017
Oil and gas job cuts
Finance

Oil Price Spike May Not Save Energy Sector

By Tsvetana Paraskova and Oilprice.com
January 9, 2017

Most Popular